Month: November 2020

In the decisive state of Pennsylvania he is already way ahead, gave himself confident of victory – but statesmanlike refrained from attacking his opponent Donald Trump.The election thriller becomes more and more dramatic. On Friday evening (local time) President Donald Trump (74) issued a harsh warning to his democratic opponent. “Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of president. The legal proceedings are just beginning!” Hours later – at 11 p.m. local time – the ex-vice president appeared in front of the cameras in his home state of Delaware…

All EU countries except Finland are rated red by the EU Corona traffic light with the highest warning level. According to Thursday’s update, besides Finland, only individual regions of Greece and the Azores, which belong to Portugal, are rated orange on the EU map to assess the corona situation. Green light is only available for Denmark’s autonomous territory Greenland. Grey appeared on Friday morning Liechtenstein and Slovakia, which means that the EU health agency ECDC does not yet have enough information for a re-evaluation. The so-called EU Corona Traffic Light…

Hungary’s government also wants to rely on Russian vaccines in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Hungary will start importing “small quantities of vaccines” from Russia in December and test them in clinical trials, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto declared yesterday. Deliveries with “large quantities” of vaccines should follow from the second week of January. The right-wing populist head of government Viktor Orban also commented on the subject of vaccines: “We are seeing the end of the tunnel, we are getting more and more good news about vaccines”, he said…

France has registered more than 60,000 new infections with the coronavirus in 24 hours. This was reported by the French health authorities last night. This is the highest number since the start of large-scale tests. Within one day, around 400 people in hospitals have also died in connection with Covid-19 disease. In addition, more than 400 people died in old people’s homes and nursing homes. However, this figure is not collected daily. The news agency AFP, citing the national health authority, reported that the data on new infections had not…

In view of rising infection figures, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has once again declared a health emergency. In a television address yesterday, de Sousa said he had signed a decree that would put the state of emergency into effect starting next week. This is a “very limited and largely preventive measure,” the president stressed. However, the state of emergency allows the government to impose new measures to contain the pandemic, de Sousa continued. As an example he cited traffic restrictions. The parliament in Lisbon had approved the imposition…