The US is experiencing another sad record. In one day, more than 2,220 people died from the effects of Covid-19. This has never happened before worldwide. All information in the news blog.
Worldwide, more than 1.9 million people are infected with the corona virus, and more than 125,000 have died. The states react very differently to the danger: in some European countries, relaxation of the rigorous measures in the fight against the virus has already been announced. In the United States, too, the debate about returning to normal is picking up speed.
More than 2,200 corona deaths in the United States within 24 hours
According to a university in the United States, more people have died than ever before from a new coronavirus infection within 24 hours. By Tuesday evening (local time), experts at Johns Hopkins University in the United States had recorded 2,228 deaths. The previous high was reached last Friday with 2,108 deaths. According to the university, nearly 26,000 people in the United States have died from an infection since the epidemic began.
The United States is the worst affected country in the world by the pandemic. Nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University numbers, more than 605,000 people have now tested positive for the corona virus.
Doctors on the US Navy hospital ship in California: Death and infection numbers continue to rise rapidly in the United States. (Source: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Erwin Jacob Miciano / U.S. Navy / archive picture / AP / dpa)
Trump is considering easing before May 1st
US President Donald Trump is about to finalize a government plan to reopen the American economy. “We think some states will be in really good shape to open even earlier than the end of April,” Trump said on Tuesday. Others, on the other hand, would need more time to get the virus under control first. Trump said he would not push the states to reopen. He “authorizes” state governors to implement the plan at the appropriate time. Read more here.
US President Donald Trump: feels the headwind of the governors in the corona crisis. (Source: Yuri Gripas / Reuters)
Return action before graduation
More than 225,000 Germans stranded abroad due to the Corona crisis are at home four weeks after the Federal Government’s return campaign began. As the dpa news agency learned from the Federal Foreign Office, only a “middle four-digit number” of travelers now has to be flown out, most of them from South Africa, Argentina and Peru.
The largest return campaign in the history of the Federal Republic is likely to be completed in a few days. After that, the embassies will continue to deal with individual cases.
Denmark is partially opening schools and daycare centers
In Denmark, tens of thousands of children can go back to daycare, kindergarten or school from Wednesday. After progress in the fight against the pandemic, the Scandinavian country is opening its school and daycare facilities for children up to and including the fifth grade. This is intended to relieve parents who previously had to take care of their younger children in addition to working at home in the virus crisis.
Parents’ representatives against daycare closure until the summer holidays
The nationwide closure of daycare centers presents many parents with the problem of combining everyday work or home office with childcare. Many are therefore troubled by the anxious question: How long will this go on? The federal parents’ representation of the day care centers has now sharply criticized the proposal by scientists not to send younger children to daycare centers until the summer holidays.
“It misses the reality of the lives of millions of people,” said Ulrike Grosse-Röthig, federal spokeswoman for the parents’ representative, to the newspapers of the Funke media group. No one expects the daycare centers to open fully overnight. But 3.7 million children who stay at home would mean 3.7 million parents who could not do their job.
Arizona is testing health workers nationwide for antibodies
The US state of Arizona wants to provide antibody tests for 250,000 healthcare workers and first-aiders. The blood tests would show who was exposed to the novel coronavirus and had successfully built up immunity, Dr. Michael Dake, Vice President of the University of Arizona. The university will produce and run the tests.
South Korea is voting – in the middle of the corona pandemic
In the middle of the corona pandemic, a new parliament will be elected in South Korea on Wednesday. More than 40 million people are called to vote under the strictest distance rules and hygiene measures. Among other things, all voters should wear protective masks and there should be temperature measuring stations at the polling stations.
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Almost 44 million voters were called for the general election. The authorities advised people to wear plastic gloves as well as breathing masks and to keep at least one meter away from the other voters. According to a poll by the Gallup polling institute last week, 72 percent of those eligible to vote were not afraid to vote despite the pandemic.
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General election in South Korea: a woman wears a mask because of the new corona virus and casts her vote in a polling station. (Source: Ahn Young-Joon / AP / dpa)
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Textile Association calls mask production “Herculean task”
The production of adequate protective masks against the virus is a “Herculean task”, according to the association of the German textile and fashion industry. For the production of protective equipment and mouth-nose masks, supply chains would be rebuilt, capacities at nonwovens manufacturers increased and entire production lines converted, said managing director Uwe Mazura of the “Rheinische Post”. “These are supply chains that have not been in demand in Europe for decades; missing machines are procured in many places.”
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The industry is working flat out to rebuild the supply chains and help to produce medical and personal protective equipment, but also everyday masks. “In view of the tremendous dynamics, we can currently not quantify the order of magnitude for mask production in Germany,” said Mazura.
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Trump administration sets up billion dollar program for airlines
The US government will support domestic airlines with a multi-billion dollar rescue package. Ten airlines – including Delta, United, JetBlue and American Airlines – wanted to accept government support, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday evening (local time). With the help – a mixture of subsidies and loans – the salaries of the employees are to be paid above all to avoid layoffs. According to media reports, the total is around $ 25 billion.
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SPD MP: State should temporarily join Condor
The SPD calls for the state to participate temporarily in the Condor holiday plane. “Condor is an important airline, the state should help,” said the SPD member of the Bundestag and vice-chairman of the Hesse-SPD, Timon Gremmels, the German press agency. “The Economic Stabilization Fund is intended for precisely such cases. If Condor makes an application and criteria are met, the state could temporarily participate in the airline.”
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Söder refuses to open the schools promptly
Unlike some federal states, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder refuses to open the schools promptly after the Easter holidays because of the corona pandemic. “I am very reluctant to go to schools,” said the CSU boss on Tuesday evening in the “heute-journal” of ZDF. He is also skeptical that primary schools should be opened first. “I have a fundamentally different view.” Söder thus distances itself from the announcement from North Rhine-Westphalia that it wants to open the schools step by step after the end of the Easter holidays on April 19, and from a recommendation by the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina to open primary schools first. Read more here.
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Disagreement: Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder does not share the demands of some CDU colleagues. (Source: Overstreet / imago images)
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Maas: Exit strategy must carefully consider all risks
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned before federal and state deliberations on possible easing of restrictions in the corona crisis to carefully consider all risks. “A look across our borders, where, unfortunately, there are new bitter deaths every day in some countries, shows that every day that contact breaks too early can have dramatic consequences for the health of many people,” said the SPD politician of the “Rhenish Post”.
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Should there be a further sharp increase in infections, Germany could be forced to take even more drastic measures than before. “We have to do everything possible to avoid such a scenario. We need an exit strategy that carefully weighs up all the risks.”
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Satellite images show a decrease in pollution
In Germany, the pollution caused by the corona crisis has decreased. As the “Wirtschaftswoche” reported on Tuesday after evaluating data from the European earth observation satellite Sentinal-5P, less extreme nitrogen dioxide values have been measured in the atmosphere over Central Europe since the beginning of April. Hardly any large clouds of pollutants can be seen on satellite images above German metropolitan areas, the magazine writes.
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The director of earth observation programs at the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, told “Wirtschaftswoche” that the decline in nitrogen dioxide pollution in Germany can be seen in the Ruhr area and on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands. The decline is even more noticeable in southern European cities. a reduction of 65 percent was measured in Barcelona.
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Governor of Rio de Janeiro infected with coronavirus
The state governor of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel, has tested positive for the corona virus. Witzel announced this on Tuesday (local time). “I haven’t felt good since Friday, had a fever, sore throat, lost my sense of smell and took the test,” said the 52-year-old in a video on Twitter. “Today I got the result.”
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Now he felt better and wanted to continue working. While Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the virus and disregarded recommendations for social detachment, Witzel, along with João Doria from São Paulo, is one of the governors in Brazil who has implemented restrictive measures to combat the corona pandemic and has been harshly criticized by Bolsonaro .
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New York City counts suspected cases – 10,000 deaths
The city of New York now also includes suspected cases of death among the authorities responsible. There are 3,700 people who have never been tested on Covid-19, but are likely to have died from the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to the Metropolitan Health Service. With them, the death toll in New York City since March 11 has now reached more than 10,000.
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US governors oppose Trump
In the United States, an open struggle has flared up between President Donald Trump and the governors over a possible relaxation of the strict anti-corona measures. The president claimed absolute powers in the question – and immediately received opposition from governors. “We have no king, we have an elected president,” said New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Read more about this dispute here.
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Left: Partially suspend pension taxation
Left-wing faction leader Dietmar Bartsch has asked that pension taxation be suspended for some pensioners in the Corona crisis. “We should suspend pension taxation this year for people who are old and only receive the statutory pension,” said Bartsch of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. The tax return is a big concern for many retirees in old age. “And in the times of Corona, the situation is much more difficult for those who need help from third parties.”
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The number of infections in Turkey continues to rise sharply
In Turkey, the number of known coronavirus infections has increased by 4,062 to 65,111 in the past 24 hours, as the Ministry of Health announced in the evening. During the same period, 107 people had died in connection with Covid-19, bringing the death toll to 1,403. In total, almost 4,800 patients have recovered.
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Call between First Ladies
Elke Büdenbender, the wife of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spoke to the first lady of the United States, Melania Trump, about the situation in the corona pandemic. Melania Trump called Büdenbender on Tuesday to inquire about the situation in Germany, the Federal President’s Office told the German Press Agency. “Elke Büdenbender thanked Melania Trump for this special gesture of transatlantic friendship and conveyed her best wishes:” I very much hope that the situation in your country will soon improve and turn for the better. “”
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The two presidential wives exchanged views on the current situation and other planned measures and declared “their special solidarity and sympathy with the people in the United States and Germany”.
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The White House said US President Donald Trump’s wife had affirmed that the United States would help Germany and the rest of Europe fight the pandemic.
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In order to make reading easier and reduce loading times, the editors start the news blog again at this point. You can read about the previous developments in the Corona crisis here.
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