China reports 26 new infections with the corona virus. The national health commission reports that eleven infections have taken place in the country and 15 have been imported from abroad. The total number of infections is 82,367. Yesterday, the reported number of new infections was 46. There were no further deaths, according to the information.
+++ 22:36 RKI: Reproduction number drops below one +++
According to the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, the infection rate also drops below the targeted mark according to the number of new infections. Statistically speaking, an infected person is now less infected than another person, the RKI said in the daily camp report. The so-called reproduction number (R) is currently around 0.7. The fluctuation range of the estimate is between 0.5 and 0.8. In the past few days, the value had been one or slightly above, on Wednesday just below 0.9 for the first time.
+++ 21:50 Brazilian president fires health minister during corona crisis +++
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has fired his health minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, Mandetta said on Twitter. For weeks, neither of them had been able to agree on a common line for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. While Bolsonaro downplayed the coronavirus pandemic, Mandetta followed international recommendations for aggressive action in the fight against the pandemic.
+++ 21:21 Macron expresses doubts about China’s handling of the corona crisis +++
France and the UK have questioned the Chinese government’s response to the Corona crisis. Beijing has to answer “hard questions” about the outbreak of the novel corona virus, said British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab. China has to explain “how it came about and why it couldn’t be stopped earlier”. French President Emmanuel Macron also expressed doubts about China’s crisis management. “Obviously things have happened that we don’t know about,” he told the Financial Times.
+++ 21:04 UN: Hundreds of thousands of children threatened by the economic crisis +++
The global economic downturn due to the epidemic could, according to the United Nations (UN), result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children this year. Almost 369 million children in 143 countries no longer have access to school meals, and millions of minors are also at risk of falling into extreme poverty. “We now have to act against each of these threats to our children,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
+++ 20:45 Trump announces statement on easing measures +++
US President Donald Trump wants to present his highly anticipated plans to ease restrictions at 6 p.m. (U.S. East Coast local time; midnight Thursday to Friday CEST). There will be a press conference on this from the White House, he writes on Twitter.
+++ 20:28 Nursing homes in New York focus more +++
In New York, which is particularly hard hit by the corona pandemic, the conditions in old people’s homes and nursing homes are becoming increasingly important. Of the 606 people who died in New York State between Wednesday and Thursday after being infected with the novel corona virus, 29 died in old people’s homes and nursing homes, Governor Andrew Cuomo said at his daily press conference. “We take a very close look there.” In a nursing home in the neighboring state of New Jersey the police had discovered 17 bodies.
+++ 20:10 The number of Corona clinic patients in France drops +++
The number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus in France rose by 2641 to 108,847. The number of deaths in hospitals rose by 417 to 11,060, the authorities said. However, the number of people requiring treatment in clinics fell for the second day in a row, and the number of virus patients in intensive care units even for the eighth day in a row.
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