Corona in New York – Supreme Court overturns visitor limit in churches

The US Supreme Court has lifted the limit on the number of visitors to New York state religious establishments.

The order violates the right to religious freedom set out in the first amendment, decided the judge. They approved urgent applications from the Catholic Church and a Jewish Orthodox organization against the Corona protective measure.

The verdict was five to four votes. The decisive factor was the vote of the conservative constitutional judge Barrett, who has only been a constitutional judge for a few weeks. President Trump had pushed the conservative Christian lawyer against the will of the opposition Democrats. Barrett rejected speculation at the time that her personal opinions would influence her decisions as a judge.

Further articles on the coronavirus

We have created a news blog. In view of the large amount of information, this provides an overview of the most important current developments.

Numbers and dates

+ Current developments: Figures on the coronavirus in Germany (as of November 26)
+ Situation in Germany: What does the rapid increase in new infections and the incidence value mean? (Status: 10/22)

Test and protection

+ Protection: This is how the vaccination against the coronavirus should be organized (status: 20.11.)
+ Tests for the coronavirus: when, where and how? (Status: October 29th)
+ How useful are mass tests for the whole population? (As of November 15)
+ Corona infection: how reliable are the tests? (As of November 18)
+ Treatment: This is how far vaccine research against the coronavirus is (as of November 16)
+ Remdesivir and Co: How far is the search for drugs against Covid-19? (As of October 16)
+ Infection: What do we know so far about reinfections and immunity against the coronavirus? (Status: 10.10.)
+ Hospitals: What the increase in corona infections means for them (as of November 14th)

Contagion and Transmission

+ Transmission: how contagious are children? (As of November 17)
+ Transfer: What role do aerosols play (as of 10.10.)
+ Face masks: What you should know about protective masks (as of October 29th)
+ Excess mortality: how deadly is the coronavirus really? (As of November 14th)
+ Travel warning: The current list of risk areas (as of November 13th)

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This message was broadcast on November 26th, 2020 on Deutschlandfunk.

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