For the first time in two months there have been new corona cases in Beijing. Meanwhile, the situation in Brazil and India is deteriorating. All information in the global news ticker.
- For weeks now, the United States and Beijing in particular have been arguing about whether China is at risk from this Corona virus announced too late.
- US researchers now want to have found new evidence that the corona virus already in Wuhan from August circulated (see first report of June 10). The situation in Brazil and India is now coming to a head (see June 12 updates).
- Here are the basic ones Corona virus facts* and the Corona News from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map. The following recommendations for corona protection measures are currently available
- Read all previous global developments in the corona pandemic here.
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Update from June 12, 7:31 p.m .: After two months without new corona infections are in Beijing positive cases were reported for the first time. Three people should join Covid-19 have infected. Previously, there were very few new cases in the world’s most populous country. Loud Johns Hopkins University there were only eleven new corona findings in the entire People’s Republic in the last 13 hours. China currently has 84,220 infected (as of 7:20 p.m.).
Beijing is reacting drastically to the developments. Because of the three cases, the education commission of the Chinese capital decided not to reopen primary schools as planned next Monday, but to keep them closed.
A meat market was also closed. One of the three infected is said to have visited this. The police cordoned off the site on the advice of the authorities.
Corona virus global: more and more cases – India overtakes Great Britain
Update June 12, 12:01 p.m .:
India Has Great Britain in the number of reported Coronavirus infections outdated. Accordingly, India reports more than on Friday 297,000 documented cases. The second most populous country in the world with 1.3 billion inhabitants ranks fourth worldwide – after the USA, Brazil and Russia.
The number of Sars CoV-2 infections India has grown rapidly in recent days – with around 10,000 new cases per day. Nevertheless, the country eases the Corona measures. Offices, religious sites, restaurants and shopping centers are now open again. By the Lockdown Millions of people became unemployed, many are scared to starve.
Corona in Brazil: moving Copacabana scenes – “The most difficult demonstration in our history”
Update from June 12, 7:06 a.m.: In protest against the Corona policy The Brazilian government and in memory of the deceased are on the beach at Copacabana 100 grave crosses were erected in Rio de Janeiro. Volunteers from the NGO dug the operation Rio de Paz on Thursday (June 11th) an empty one for each cross dig out. “It was the most difficult demonstration in our history,” wrote its president, Antonio Costa, on Twitter.
A video of the group saw a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro scold the organizers and knock over the crosses. A man who had been walking on the beach and watched the scene set up the crosses again, as the portal “G1” reported. “Respect people’s pain,” he called. As it turned out, it was a father of his 25 year old son in connection with the corona virus.
Acabamos de ser atacados.
To homem começou a derrubar todas as cruzes. @riodepaz #nacontramaodomundo pic.twitter.com/l9xzro904A
– Lucas Louback (@llucaslouback) June 11, 2020
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According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health 40,919 people related to the corona virus have died across Brazil. 802,828 have become infected. President Bolsonaro downplayed the corona virus and opposed any measures to contain it. The Supreme Court therefore delegated the power to impose measures against the spread of the virus to states and communities. Bolsonaro also repeatedly lacked sympathy for the relatives of the victims.
Corona virus: concern for Africa is growing
Update from June 11, 4:11 p.m.: In Africa, the spread of the corona virus – through strict entry controls and early lockdowns – has so far been kept under control in many places. However, the local population often pays an enormously high price for this – as reported by the WHORegional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, at a video press conference organized in Geneva on Thursday. There are problems especially in the economic and social area.
So far, above all Metropolises in South Africa and Nigeria badly affected, but the virus is now spreading to rural areas. WHO experts expect the number of cases to increase.
Also World Medical President Frank Ulrich Montgomery worries about the further course of the fight against pandemics in Africa, many states do not have sufficient resources: “If the fight against Corona in the south of Africa is lost, it will be lost for the whole world.” SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach it is therefore now time for the funds of the WHO topping up and “not waiting for the US to get back in.”
Coronavirus pandemic: should China have stopped the spread much earlier?
First report from June 10th: Boston / Beijing – China opened too late Covid-19 responded? It has the rest of the world beyond the scope of the novel Corona virus left in the dark? Did it cover up, lie? They have been arguing for weeks USA and China bitter about it. Many US researchers are looking for evidence of China’s wrongdoing – and now want to have found new clues that the virus has already been found in Wuhan since August circulates.
Coronavirus in Wuhan: evidence of an outbreak as early as August 2019
For that they have to unusual methods seized – which are accordingly dubious. As a guide, they have the Parking lot situation of the hospitals in Wuhan via satellite image analyzed. At the same time, they have Chinese Search volume on the internet too “Diarrhea” and “cough”, two of the main symptoms of a Covid-19 disease, Analyzed in recent months and their findings for peer review published on the pre-print server of Harvard University.
The investigation by satellite is possible because commercial suppliers use it to provide very precise images of the earth’s surface, on which even seventy centimeters small objects are recognizable. The researchers resorted to this method, they explain, because they are in others Studies in Latin America have already found that with everyone Flu wave the average number of parking spaces in hospitals is significantly higher.
Coronavirus in Wuhan: Researchers count cars on satellite images
They want the same phenomenon in Wuhan have already observed from August. While, according to Chinese data, the virus only started its journey around the world in December. The provider of the satellite photos, RS Metrics, shares a picture from the study on Twitter, and the parked cars at a hospital in Wuhan are clearly marked in red.
As featured on @ABC and @GMA, @RSMetrics partnered w / @BostonChildrens to measure #hospitaltraffic in #Wuhan China from Jan 2018 to May 2020. Spikes at major hospitals occurred in the Sept-Dec 2019 4 months before the #Corona virus outbreak # Covid19
[email protected] pic.twitter.com/b5Jh8ljEuf– RS Metrics (@RSMetrics) June 8, 2020
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Another user shares a photo from the study with before-and-after comparison with the online service:
Harvard Medical School research looking at satellite images found that # of cars parked at major #Wuhan hospitals at points last autumn was much higher than preceding yr, suggesting #coronavirus outbreak may have started much earlier previously thought https://t.co/4u8wADZCvF
– Sophia Yan (@sophia_yan) June 9, 2020
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The Satellite imagery are at the same time the weakness of the study. The researchers used only a few images – or could only use a few. The recordings of commercial providers are expensive and therefore rare. And not always possible, for example, if Clouds cover the earth’s surface. But the researchers also give no clues as to the time of the respective recordings. That would be important.
In conversation with spiegel.de emphasizes the director of the German Remote Sensing Data Center at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Stefan Dech, that satellite photos are snapshots.
Corona pandemic: US study on satellite images is criticized
“You have to make sure you know what’s going on in the hospital when the pictures are taken,” he said. Before, during, and after one lunch break the parking lot may look very different. The same applies to the Visiting time. In fact, the variation in the number of cars in the pictures is high.
In other places, attempts are being made to reconstruct the outbreak of the corona pandemic and evidence is being gathered for this. So she wants South China Morning Post Have documents available, from which emergesthat the first patient definitively infected with Covid-19 was identified on November 17.
Video: British secret service suspects origin of Covid-19 in Chinese laboratory
Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and four other heads of government are raising the alarm for possible pandemics in the future. In the meantime, the reproductive value in Germany has been above the critical mark of 1 again in the past three days – experts warn of a second wave.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
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