Trump, the “hardest working president in history”; Stockholm closes bars

After a four-day curfew in the metropolis of Istanbul and 30 other cities and provinces in Turkey, people are allowed to leave their homes. The ban on going out expired yesterday at midnight (local time). The measure had been in effect since Thursday, a public holiday in Turkey.

While there were still half-day shopping opportunities on Thursday and Friday, the residents had to stay at home with a few exceptions at the weekend. The people seemed to stick to the measures as far as possible. The streets remained largely empty and quiet. In the metropolis of Istanbul, the calls of the bakers were heard who were allowed to export their goods.

After a forced break of almost one and a half months, the VW Group is slowly starting car production again at the Wolfsburg headquarters. In addition to Wolfsburg, Hanover and Emden as well as further locations in Europe are to be added. During the interruption – triggered in mid-March by the slump in car demand, cut supply chains worldwide and contagion risks in the factories – VW had only kept small on-call teams in the factories. Stricter hygiene concepts, distance rules and shorter cleaning intervals now apply. In addition, shift plans should be modified to temporarily have fewer employees in the same room at the same time.

The truck and bus subsidiary MAN in Munich also starts today. The VW-US plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) returns from the break on May 3. In contrast to Germany, where short-time work had been registered for tens of thousands of employees, the US colleagues have recently had unpaid forced leave. Factories in Latin America and South Africa are scheduled to start operating in early May.

Last week, the Swedish government increased pressure: Interior Minister Mikael Damberg announced on Friday that restaurants and cafes should be checked more closely – keyword minimum clearance. “Otherwise, these factories will be closed,” said Damberg. Now some restaurants actually had to close.

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Information for everyone who is traveling by car in Salzburg and Vienna today: the short-term parking zones apply again.

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“We don’t want to have an exception,” said Helga Rabl-Stadler, President of the Salzburg Festival, on Sunday evening on the ORF-2 discussion program Downtown: “Either – under the priority of health – everyone can unlock or nobody.”

In the fight against the corona virus, all around 20 million people in Mexico City will wear masks in public from Monday. This was announced on Sunday by Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum at a press conference. “There are many people who can be infected but show no symptoms,” she said. “That’s why it’s important to cover your mouth.” According to Sheinbaum, failure to comply with the rule should not result in punishment. However, it asked all residents of the metropolis to comply with their order. According to official information, almost 14,000 corona infections have been registered in Mexico so far, and more than 1,300 people have died.

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the corona crisis. According to the White House, the two expressed hope on Sunday that the veto powers of the UN Security Council would meet soon to discuss how to deal with the pandemic. “President Trump and President Macron agreed on the need to reform the World Health Organization,” the government headquarters in Washington said. From the French side, there was initially no information about the content of the conversation.

At a charity auction in aid of victims of the corona pandemic, a jersey from Argentina’s football icon Diego Maradona raised 55,000 euros. The shirt was donated by ex-footballer Ciro Ferrara, who played with Maradona at the SSC Napoli in the 1980s and 1990s. The former Italian international has founded a foundation with Fabio and Paolo Cannavaro, who were also born in Naples, the Fondazione Cannavaro Ferrara.

“We won another game, Ciro Ferrara,” Maradona wrote on Facebook. “Possibly the most important thing. We won it together, as we always did … ”According to Ferrara, the auction raised a total of 85,000 euros. In addition to the Maradona shirt, memorabilia were auctioned by 26 other football players.

One of the last Auschwitz survivors died of the coronavirus in a nursing home in Brussels. “What the whole Nazi army didn’t do was the microscopic corona virus. My father survived the death march, but today his march through life ended,” Henri Kichka’s son Michel wrote on Facebook on Saturday. Kichka was 94 years old.

People traveling by car in Vienna will have to pay attention to the short-term parking zones again tomorrow, Monday. These come into force again. The obligation to pay fees and the limitation of the parking period were suspended after the announcement of the first coronavirus measures in mid-March in the federal capital.

Now the measure is also being reversed in the federal capital. The control of the short-term parking zones was reactivated some time ago in surrounding communities and in some regional capitals.

Switzerland, the Czech Republic and other European countries will ease their conditions in the coronavirus crisis starting Monday. In Switzerland, among other things, DIY superstores and garden centers as well as hairdressers reopen at the beginning of the week. The Czech Republic once again brings business travelers from the EU into the country. However, you can only stay there for 72 hours and have to show a negative corona test. Small shops, museums and libraries open in Croatia at the beginning of the week. Classes in compulsory schools start again in Norway.

Italy will loosen a number of corona restrictions from May 4, allowing citizens to do more outdoor sports and exercise in their own region, for example. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Sunday evening in Rome when presenting an overall plan to gradually open up the country.

Because Germany and the Czech Republic deny them transit because of the corona virus, more than 240 Moldovans are stuck at a motorway service area in eastern France. The people had left Paris on Saturday with three buses from a tour operator from the Republic of Moldova and wanted to go home, the responsible prefecture said on Sunday evening. Several children were among those affected. Since Sunday morning they have been stuck at the rest area north of Strasbourg near the border with Germany. There are now “diplomatic contacts” between the competent authorities in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Moldova, the prefecture said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street, London, on Sunday evening after recovering from Covid 19. A government spokeswoman confirmed the relevant reports at the request of the German Press Agency. He wants to resume his official duties this Monday. Johnson had recovered from lung disease at his Checkers country house near London in the past two weeks.

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths is also falling significantly in Germany. From Saturday to Sunday, the number of deaths rose by 91 to 5,734 after 189 deaths had been recorded the previous day. The number of new infections increased by around 1,400 (previous day: 1,845) to 155,400, according to an evaluation published by the German Press Agency as of 8.15 p.m.

According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the number of reproductions as of Sunday was 0.9.

The governor of New York City, which was particularly hard hit by the corona pandemic, has presented a plan to return to normal. “We want to start the economy again,” said Andrew Cuomo at his daily press conference on Sunday, “but we have to be careful and smart about it.” For example, companies should ensure that distance rules can be observed in their offices and factories and that they have enough breathing masks for their employees.

The first companies could open on May 15, Cuomo said – provided the situation continues to improve. At the height of the pandemic, nearly 800 people died in New York every day, and the death toll fell below 400 on Saturday. Cuomo fears, however, that this may change again if the lockdown ends too quickly.

The number of new corona deaths in France has dropped significantly. The authorities said on Sunday evening in Paris that 242 people had died from the lung disease Covid-19 caused by the new virus. The day before, there had been 369 new deaths. In total, 22,856 people died of Covid-19 in France.

As of Sunday evening, over 3,000 people – exactly: 3,024 – had recovered from the corona virus in Tyrol. That meant an increase of 27 people in the past 24 hours. During the same period, only four other people tested positive for the corona virus, the country said. There have been no further coronavirus-related deaths since Thursday.

Spain’s Minister of Health has ruled out a rapid restart for the Primera Division. “It would be ruthless to say now that professional football will be back before summer,” said Salvador Illa on Sunday. Football in Spain has been dormant since March 12 due to the corona virus crisis. “We will continue to monitor the development (of the virus) and the guidelines we will present will show how various activities can return to a new normal,” said Illa. So far, professional football has been suspended at least until the end of May.