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Coronavirus live ticker: +++ 07:50 India reports the highest daily increase in new infections worldwide +++

India has reported the highest increase in new infections in a day since the outbreak of the corona pandemic. The authorities there said 78,761 cases of infection were registered in the South Asian country within 24 hours. No other country has so far recorded so many in just one day. On July 16, the USA reported the highest value to date with 77,299 new infections. A total of around 3.5 million people in India have been shown to have contracted the corona virus. India has the second highest population in the world with more than 1.3 billion people. Only China is just ahead of it.

+++ 07:07 RKI: few seriously ill despite the increased number of infections +++
Despite the increased number of infections, there are still comparatively few corona patients in German clinics. According to the latest data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), around 9,200 people were reported as infected in the week from August 17 to 23 – almost four times as many as six weeks earlier. Of those infected for whom there was information about their treatment status (6981), 323 had to be hospitalized. Six weeks ago the number was only slightly lower. The number of corona patients in intensive care units has also been fairly stable for weeks and at a comparatively low level. According to the RKI, there are hardly any deaths. One reason for the comparatively low number of corona patients in hospitals could be the lower average age of the newly infected. In addition, there is a changed test strategy and more knowledge of the treatment methods.

+++ 06:13 RKI records 785 new infections +++
In the data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the number of cases over the weekend has decreased significantly compared to the previous days. The health authorities transmitted a total of 785 new coronavirus infections via the electronic reporting system by midnight, as the RKI announced early Sunday morning. The day before, the daily increase was 1479 cases. A significant decrease on weekends can be observed regularly in the reporting data.

According to the RKI count, at least 241,771 people in Germany have been demonstrably infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the start of the Corona crisis (data as of August 30, 12 a.m.). According to the RKI, the number of deaths in connection with a coronavirus infection is 9295. Six more deaths have been reported since the previous day. The RKI estimates the number of those who have recovered at around 214,900.

+++ 05:39 Bundestag tightened corona precautions +++
In the German capital, parliamentarians and their employees have to be prepared for stricter corona requirements. After the summer break, the Bundestag is ramping up its security measures again in view of the increasing number of infections. In a house message, Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble recommends “urgently” that politicians and all employees of the Bundestag administration wear a mask in all buildings of the Bundestag from September 1st.

“The mask can be removed in the plenary hall, in conference rooms and meeting rooms, as well as in offices, especially your own,” it says, “if you have taken a seat with the required distance of at least 1.5 meters and good ventilation is guaranteed. ” The mask can also be removed for speeches in the plenary hall and other conference rooms, whereby here, too, the minimum distance must be observed.

+++ 05:26 South Korea is fighting the virus +++
South Korea reports 299 new corona infections within 24 hours. This is the slowest increase in five days, but also the 17th day in a row in the three-digit range. The government recently tightened the protective measures. On Sunday, new regulations came into force in the densely populated metropolitan area of ​​the capital Seoul: eating on site in restaurants, pubs and bakeries is prohibited from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., coffee shops, some of which have been identified as hotspots, are allowed until September 6th only sell outside the home. Churches, nightclubs, sports halls and most schools in the area are already closed, and a mask is required in public places. So far, 19,699 infections and 323 Covid-19 deaths have been detected in South Korea.

+++ 04:35 China reports new corona record +++
In China, the authorities have not registered any proven coronavirus infections domestically for the 14th day in a row. This is the longest period since the daily infection counts began in late January. As on the previous day, nine illnesses were reported, which, however, are said to be people who had become infected abroad and then entered the People’s Republic. In the case of the infections registered separately in China without symptoms of the disease, four new cases were reported after ten cases the day before.

+++ 04:24 paediatricians recommend flu vaccination +++
Pediatricians recommend flu shots for children this fall. He recommends that all parents have their children vaccinated against influenza this year, said Johannes Huebner, senior physician at the children’s clinic at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and chairman of the German Society for Pedriatic Infectious Diseases, of “Welt am Sonntag”.

“We know that children largely transmit the influenza virus,” said Huebner. It is therefore not only older people who are at risk who could become infected with the flu virus in this way. Every winter, many children have to be hospitalized because of the flu and even have to be supplied with oxygen, emphasized Hübner. Apart from the risks to the health of children, there is also a social obligation to protect others in times of the corona pandemic, he emphasized.

+++ 03:30 Federal government increases flu vaccine +++
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn advises against flu vaccination amid the corona pandemic. “At the same time, a major flu wave and the pandemic can hardly cope with the health system,” said Spahn of “Welt am Sonntag”. That is why the federal government “got additional flu vaccine this time”. “Anyone who wants to have themselves and their children vaccinated should and can do so,” said Spahn.

+++ 02:52 Corona patient infected for the second time in Ecuador +++
Researchers in Ecuador provide further evidence that coronavirus infection does not necessarily protect against further infection. After the first cases in Asia, Europe and the USA, a new corona infection has now also been detected in a person who had originally recovered from the disease in the South American country. “The genomes of the virus were sequenced in an Ecuadorian with Covid-19 in May and again in August,” tweeted the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Quito (IMUSFQ). It turned out that there were two different strains of the coronavirus. The disease took a mild course in the patient from the South American country in May and showed moderate symptoms in August. In between, a corona test in July was negative.

+++ 01:37 Laschet calls carnivalists to renounce +++
In view of the prospects of the coronavirus pandemic, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet has called on the carnivalists to cancel the preparations that are due from autumn. “In this Corona year we all had to and must do without what we have loved,” Laschet told “Bild am Sonntag”. “If Christians had to do without an Easter festival in the community, the shooters on their shooting festival, wine drinkers on their wine festival, the football fans on their stadium visits, then it is clear that the carnival is also up for grabs.”

He wanted a common rule in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, which would be supported by the clubs, said the CDU politician. Then people would understand “that with the virus we cannot celebrate Carnival as usual”. Carnival with many people in a small space and alcohol is difficult to imagine. He talks to everyone involved about possible alternatives.

+++ 00:52 More than 41,000 new infections in Brazil +++
In Brazil, a plateau phase is emerging in the coronavirus pandemic. The number of new infections reported daily has fluctuated around an average of around 37,000 new infections per day for almost ten days. At its peak, the most populous country in South America had recorded values ​​of 46,000 new cases on average over several days. According to official information, there were 41,350 new infections on Saturday.

The number of registrations in Brazil fluctuates particularly strongly over the course of the week. Due to the weekend effect in the reporting system of the authorities, laboratories and medical practices, strikingly low numbers are regularly observed there on Sundays and at the beginning of the week. With the late registrations from the weekend, the number of cases then rose sharply towards the middle of the week.

The Brazilian Ministry of Health reported the previous daily maximum on July 29th. At that time, 69,074 new infections were reported within 24 hours. The total number of proven coronavirus cases in Brazil is currently around 3.8 million. This makes the country the second most severely affected by the pandemic in the world after the USA. A total of 120,262 people have already died in connection with an infection in Brazil.

+++ 00:13 RKI warns of possible bottlenecks in autumn +++
The care of Covid-19 patients with severe disease courses apparently poses a much greater challenge for the German health system than flu waves of comparable proportions. This is the result of a study by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which in the most recent “Epidemiological Bulletin“was published. In order to determine the extent of the requirements in the hospitals, scientists compared the data from corona patients with breathing problems with the information on the disease progression of seriously ill flu patients from five severe influenza waves in recent years Information on the age structure, the severity of the disease, the duration of inpatient treatment and the proportion of patients who died despite all intensive care efforts.

“The results (…) demonstrate the need to keep intensive care resources available if the number of Covid-19 cases should rise again in autumn 2020”, the RKI summarizes the findings. “Due to the higher proportion of patients requiring ventilation and the long duration of ventilation observed, one has to be prepared for a higher number of ventilation positions than was necessary for the same number of serious illnesses during a flu epidemic in previous seasons.”

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