Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Coronavirus-Liveticker
+++ 04:17 Entry to England only with test and quarantine +++
Entry into England will soon only be possible with a negative test. The new rule is to come into force on Friday morning (4 a.m. local time, 5 a.m. CET) and also apply to British citizens, according to the Ministry of Transport in London. The test must therefore be no more than 72 hours old when leaving the country of origin and must be checked by the airline, railway company or the ship operator before departure. Regardless of the test result, all those entering the country have to go into quarantine for ten days. Exceptions to the test requirement include children aged 10 and under and passengers entering from other parts of the UK.
+++ 04:02 China reports 55 new cases +++
China reports 55 new corona cases, after 103 the day before. Most of this is in Hebei Province, which surrounds Beijing.
+++ 03:45 WHO: Experts begin search for virus origin in Wuhan +++
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the international team of experts to investigate the origin of the coronavirus will begin its work in Wuhan. After a long delay, China had given the go-ahead for the experts to arrive. They are supposed to arrive on Thursday. In Wuhan, the first cases of infections with the then new virus became known about a year ago.
+++ 02:41 USA reports almost nine million vaccinations +++
According to its own information, the US disease authority CDC has administered more than 8.9 million vaccine doses to date. A total of 25.4 million cans were delivered.
+++ 01:48 Institute: employers have to enforce more home offices +++
The union-related Institute for Macroeconomics and Business Cycle Research (IMK) is calling on companies and administration to make greater use of home offices in order to contain the pandemic. “We now have to ask ourselves where the number of infections can be reduced with the least possible economic damage,” says IMK boss Sebastian Dullien to the editorial network in Germany. In April 2020, 27 percent of employees worked from home, but in November it was only 14 percent. At the moment, the number is possibly a little higher again.
+++ 00:51 Moderna vaccine should work for at least one year +++
According to the company, the Covid vaccine from the US manufacturer Moderna should work for at least a year. Moderna plans to deliver between 600 million and a billion doses of the vaccine this year.
+++ 00:03 Biontech offers its employees voluntary vaccination +++
The vaccine manufacturer Biontech offers its employees a voluntary vaccination according to a newspaper report. The vaccine should also be made available to suppliers and sales partners in Germany and Austria, “who are actively and directly involved in the production and sales process,” the company told the VRM newspaper group. All associated costs would be covered by Biontech.
+++ 23:14 Frustrated students and parents: KMK boss seeks understanding +++
In view of the ongoing difficulties with overburdened learning platforms for schools, the new president of the Conference of Ministers of Education, Britta Ernst, appeals for understanding among frustrated children and parents. That servers in schools sometimes don’t work is annoying, says the Brandenburg education minister in the ARD. “But what we have missed in the past five to eight years in initiatives for digital education, we will not make up in six to nine months.” She added: “I admit we would like to be elsewhere.” Here you can read more about it.
+++ 22:22 US MPs tested positive after storming the Capitol +++
A 75-year-old US MP announced a positive corona test after storming the Capitol. Bonnie Watson Coleman, of New Jersey, said Monday that she was believed to have been infected when she was holed up in a secure room for hours from the crowd. Among the 200 people there were Republicans who were not wearing masks. The Democrat from the House of Representatives has already received the first vaccination against the virus.
+++ 22:02 15 km rule for four hotspots in NRW +++
If you live in a corona hotspot with a seven-day incidence of over 200, you are allowed to move a maximum of 15 kilometers from your place of residence according to stricter regulations. This so-called 15-kilometer rule now also applies to four districts in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the evening, the state government issued a separate regional ordinance for the districts of Höxter, Minden-Lübbecke, Recklinghausen and the Oberberg district. The regulation applies from Tuesday.
+++ 21:56 Six countries have four-digit new infections +++
Of the 16 federal states, Bavaria leads the field with 2324 newly registered infections. North Rhine-Westphalia (1796), Saxony (1049), Berlin (1036), Saxony-Anhalt (1022) and Baden-Württemberg (1020) follow in the list of federal states with the highest daily values. Measured by the number of inhabitants, Saxony-Anhalt is the state with the largest daily increase in new infections this Monday: The state has 46.6 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
+++ 21:37 Current data situation in Germany: 11,301 new cases reported +++
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 1,932,996. As can be seen from the information from the state authorities evaluated by ntv.de, 11,301 new cases were added. The number of deaths related to infection rose 487 to 41,281. Around 330,691 people are currently infected.
The infection rate (R value) is given by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) as 1.32 (previous day: 1.52). This means that an average of 100 infected people infect 132 other people with Sars-CoV-2. The 7-day R-value is currently 1.14 (previous day: 1.18). According to the Divi Register, 5289 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in intensive care in Germany, 3,006 of whom are ventilated. Around 4,807 intensive care beds are currently still available in the German clinics.
You can read more information about the most important corona data here.
Read more developments from the previous day here.
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