9:03 a.m .: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock developed clear signs of illness after being infected with the corona virus during a visit to Pakistan. From delegation circles it was said on Wednesday in the capital Islamabad that the Green politician had had “clear flu symptoms” since Tuesday evening. Baerbock wanted to return to Berlin later that day on board a government plane. The 41-year-old will spend the flight isolated in a separate cabin on board, it said. No other infections in their delegation were initially known.
Baerbock had to cancel her trip on Tuesday after two positive corona tests shortly after it started in Islamabad. Originally she wanted to go to Greece on Wednesday and then to Turkey. Instead, the entire delegation was expected back in Berlin on Wednesday evening. In the Airbus A319 of the Air Force’s flight readiness, there is a possibility that Baerbock will spend the flight completely in isolation, it said.
6:53 a.m .: A panel of experts from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended the Corona vaccine Novavax. 21 experts voted in favor of the recommendation on Tuesday, there was one abstention and no dissenting votes – although the authority had seen a “cause for concern” in a preliminary analysis because of a possible risk of heart muscle inflammation. Following the expert vote, the FDA is expected to grant emergency use authorization for Novavax shortly.
After the approval of Novavax by the FDA, the health authority CDC would still have to issue guidelines for the use of the vaccine. So far, three vaccines have been approved in the United States: the mRNA vaccines from Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna, and the vector vaccine from Johnson
Last week, the FDA published an analysis of the clinical trial data for the Novavax vaccine. According to this, six cases of heart muscle inflammation occurred in test persons who received the vaccine. In the group that received only a placebo, there was only one case. A total of 40,000 people took part in the studies. However, the vaccine manufacturer rejected a causal connection between the cases and its product.
Wednesday, June 8, 6:22 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Wednesday morning as 238.1. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 199.9 (previous week: 207.0; previous month: 569.4). However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 84,655 new corona infections (previous week: 54,957) and 145 deaths (previous week: 91) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, as more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 26,583,016 infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
9.07 a.m .: The former Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart Baum (FDP) sharply criticizes his party’s Corona policy and sees this as a reason for the poor performance in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia. “The FDP had hardly failed disastrously in two federal states, also because of its pandemic policy, when Wolfgang Kubicki announced that it would be continued in the fall,” Baum told the editorial network Germany (Tuesday editions). The FDP policy was “at times a piece of populism that the voters did not follow,” Baum sums up.
While distrust of state intervention is “an indispensable characteristic of liberal politics, this must not lead to the necessary responsibility for the common good falling by the wayside,” said Baum. The liberal politics of the past two years have not always sufficiently taken into account this orientation towards the common good, criticized Baum, who was Federal Minister of the Interior from 1978 to 1982 under SPD Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
The dispute between the FDP and SPD Health Minister Karl Lauterbach frightened many voters: “They simply could not imagine that all other democratic parties, all federal states and science were on the wrong track.” The FDP should “finally become self-critical about it that their refusal to assign these protective tasks to the state was a major contributor to the electoral defeat, particularly among older voters,” Baum said.
Baum sees a special responsibility in the deputy FDP chairman and Bundestag vice president: “Wolfgang Kubicki, who represented this course in the forefront of the media, is one of the losers in the elections in his home country Schleswig Holstein.” Baum added: “His most recent statements give reason to fear that he and part of the FDP will continue this policy in the fall.” The policy of the FDP leadership is “at times a piece of populism that voters did not follow”.
There is increasing debate within the traffic light coalition about which protective measures should be set for the fall. The FDP in particular continues to campaign against early requirements.
Tuesday, June 7th, 5:15 a.m .: Due to the low reporting rate from the state health authorities, there were no reliable infection figures from the Robert Koch Institute on Tuesday morning. Many federal states did not report at all or not completely to the Robert Koch Institute at the weekend and during the holiday. The published figures are therefore very limited in their meaningfulness.
Sunday, June 4th, 10:46 a.m .: Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has warned of staff shortages in the travel and transport industry during the summer holidays. The “Bild am Sonntag” said Wissing: “Two points meet here – on the one hand, people who, after all the deprivation and restrictions during the corona pandemic, feel a great need to catch up on being on the road and traveling. On the other hand, there is the travel and transport industry, which was virtually paralyzed during Corona and lost employees. ”This gap has not yet been closed, especially in air transport. The minister called for a “job initiative to attract skilled workers” and modernization of the infrastructure.
The background is the lack of staff – from passenger control to aircraft handling to flight attendants, there are no employees who were looking for other jobs during the pandemic. “Across all locations, the service providers involved in handling passengers are missing around 20 percent of the ground staff compared to the pre-Corona period. This can lead to bottlenecks at peak times, especially at check-in, when loading suitcases and at the air security check,” said the general manager of the airport association ADV, Ralph Beisel, of the German Press Agency recently. The airport works councils estimate the total need at 5500 people nationwide.
Beisel emphasized in the “Bild am Sonntag” that due to the strict security requirements for staffing at airports, the so-called background check, employees could not be hired overnight
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Friday morning as 261.3. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week was 221.4 (previous month: 632.2).
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – due to overworked health authorities and because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 42,693 new corona infections and 91 deaths within one day to the RKI. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, as more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 26,452,148 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
6.48 p.m .: At the suggestion of the Union, the virologist Klaus Stöhr is to move up to a commission for the scientific assessment of the state corona restrictions in Germany. This was announced by the health policy spokesman for the Union faction, Tino Sorge (CDU), on Thursday. Stöhr should therefore follow the Berlin virologist Christian Drosten, who withdrew from the committee at the end of April. Stöhr stands for a “pragmatic and calm corona course and for a transparent, data-based evaluation of the measures,” said Sorge on Twitter.
The Bundestag had stipulated in the Infection Protection Act that an external evaluation of the guidelines should come as part of the “epidemic situation of national importance” that had been in force for several months. According to the law, the committee of experts set up for this purpose is to submit a report by June 30th. The chairman of the committee, the lawyer Stefan Huster, had told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” that there was great unanimity in the group that “no full scientific evaluation of all measures” was to be carried out by the end of June. Scientists from various disciplines belong to the committee.
Thursday, June 2nd, 6:41 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Thursday morning as 221.4. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 207.0 (previous week: 262.6, previous month: 639.5).
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – due to overworked health authorities and because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 48,502 new corona infections (previous week: 39,705 registered infections) and 131 deaths (previous week: 136) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, as more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 26,409,455 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
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