Liveblog
Status: 02/12/2021 4:22 a.m.
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The federal government has agreed on financial aid for important airports. Another corona variant has appeared in the Brazilian Amazon. All developments in the live blog.
04:22 am
Numerous violations of vaccination sequence in Germany
In at least nine federal states, people who have not yet had their turn have already been vaccinated against Corona. This was the result of a research by the German Press Agency. Local politicians, clergymen as well as firefighters and police officers came into play, although they do not belong to the first priority group.
In Lower Saxony, for example, the district administrator of Peine and his deputy were vaccinated, and in Saxony-Anhalt the district administrator of the Wittenberg district and his deputy as well as the mayor of Halle and two city councilors. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the mayor of Hennef, his predecessor and the mayor of Wachtberg received a vaccination. In Bavaria, the district administrator of Donau-Ries and the mayor of Donauwörth were vaccinated. Police officers were also vaccinated in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, fire fighters in Rhineland-Palatinate and police officers and fire fighters in Hamburg. In Bremen and Hesse, senior hospital staff are also said to have been vaccinated.
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04:22 am
New lockdown in Melbourne: No spectators at the Australian Open
Due to the corona outbreak in an airport hotel, there is again a five-day lockdown in the Australian metropolis of Melbourne. As stated by the Prime Minister of the state of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, this will go into effect this Friday at 11:59 pm across the state. Schools and shops remain closed during this time, restaurants are only allowed to offer pick-up food. In addition, people are only allowed to leave their houses and apartments for important things, outside their own four walls there is a mask requirement. The Australian Open of tennis professionals, however, can continue. The government classified professional athletes in the group of “necessary professions”. However, as of Saturday, no more spectators will be allowed on the facility in Melbourne Park for the next five days. So far, spectators have been allowed, on Thursday 21,010 tennis fans had attended the games.
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03:32 am
Biden: USA secures 600 million vaccine doses by the end of July
By the summer, the United States will have enough coronavirus vaccine for 300 million Americans, according to President Joe Biden. The country has set the course to receive 600 million cans from the manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna by the end of July, he announced. Corresponding contractual obligations have been entered into. Biden visited a laboratory where the corona vaccine was created, which is now manufactured by Moderna. Looking at the previous government, he criticized: “It is no secret that the vaccination program was in much worse shape than my team and I had expected.” No plan has been passed from government to government to vaccinate the majority of the population.
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03:13 am
New coronavirus variant discovered in the Amazon region
A new variant of the coronavirus has been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. This mutation is probably three times more contagious than the original virus, said Brazil’s Minister of Health Eduardo Pazuello. Despite the high risk of infection with the new mutation, the minister assured: “Thank God the analysis showed that the vaccines are also effective against this variant.” The Ministry of Health has not yet provided any data from this analysis.
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03:13 am
Federal government agrees on financial aid for important airports
In the Corona crisis, the federal government wants to support the important large commercial airports in Germany with one-off grants. This provides for a package of measures by the federal government, which the finance and transport ministries agreed on, according to information from the German press agency. For small regional airports, on the other hand, only relief is provided for fees. The package provides for the federal government to provide a one-time grant to twelve important airports in which it is not involved. According to a paper, these are the airports of Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Münster / Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart. Specifically, it is about the reimbursement of costs for keeping airports open at the beginning of the pandemic.
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03:13 am
The live blog from Thursday to read
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