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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany reported 24,300 new infections for Thursday. The seven-day incidence thus rises to 134.2, up from 113.3 a week ago. German intensive care physicians are sounding the alarm about the high infection figures. They say an additional 1,000 intensive care patients have ended up in hospitals since mid-March. If this rate continues, they say, they will be at capacity in less than four weeks. That’s what the scientific director of the Divi intensive care registry, Christian Karagiannidis, told the newspaper “Rheinische Post” (Thursday edition).…

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The highly contagious CoV variant B.1.1.7, first discovered in the United Kingdom, has reached 88 percent in Germany. This was announced by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) yesterday evening. The spread of the variant is worrying because “according to current knowledge, it is significantly more contagious and probably causes more severe courses of disease than other variants.” In Austria, the mutation percentage is 84 percent, which is similarly high. The increase in the number of cases overall and infections caused by B 1.1.7. will lead to a “significant increase” in…

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In Hungary, 302 people have died within 24 hours in connection with coronavirus. This is a new record. This means that 20,737 people have died as a result of infection so far. This puts Hungary, with a population of around ten million, at the top of the list of countries with the highest covid 19 mortality rate as a proportion of the population. According to official data, 6,700 new infections were registered. There are 12,346 coronavirus patients in hospitals, and 1,492 require artificial respiration. So far, 2.011 million people have…

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Amid a government crisis and an out-of-control CoV pandemic, Brazil has again registered a daily high in CoV deaths. 3,780 Covid-19-related deaths in the past 24 hours were reported by the Ministry of Health in Brasilia last night (local time). On Tuesday last week, Brazil had recorded more than 3,000 deaths in one day for the first time. A total of 317,646 people have died so far in connection with Covid-19, and more than 12.6 million people have been confirmed to have been infected with the coronavirus. Only in the…

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The number of new coronavirus infections is on the rise in the United States. Yesterday, 68,648 new cases were registered within one day, according to data released today by Johns Hopkins University (JHU). That was up about 17,000 from 51,567 a week ago, and the number of deaths linked to infection was 668, up from 586 a week ago Monday, according to the data. The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, expressed concern. She said she could not shake the feeling that disaster was near,…

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Italy is imposing a five-day quarantine on travel from EU countries, including Austria. Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza plans to sign a decree to this effect on Wednesday, according to government sources on Tuesday. Who comes from EU countries, including Austria, must undergo a test and a five-day quarantine when returning to Italy. After that, they must take another test. Italy imposes quarantine on entry from EU countriesThe quarantine already applies to all non-EU countries. With the quarantine also on entry from EU countries, the Italian government wants to prevent…

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29 March – Health departments in Germany have reported 9872 new Corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. In addition, 43 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours. This is according to figures released by the RKI on Monday. Exactly a week ago, the RKI had recorded 7709 new infections and 50 new deaths within one day. The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard as of 05:20, subsequent changes or additions by the RKI are possible. According to the data, the incidence rate has…

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In its coronavirus vaccination program, the U.S. has broken its previous record for doses of vaccine administered in a single day. On Saturday, 3.5 million vaccinations were reported, wrote senior White House coronavirus adviser Andy Slavitt on the short message service Twitter. Previously, the record had been nearly 3.4 million doses administered in one day on Friday. According to the White House, yesterday again reached a value of more than three million vaccinations – the third day in a row. More than 143 million vaccine doses have been injected nationwide…

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Cairo. “At most, the blockade of the Suez Canal by a container ship will last another three days,” according to the Egyptian government. This is contradicted by the head of the Dutch sea dredging company Boskalis, Peter Berdowski, who said that the work could “still take weeks.”The owner, Japanese leasing company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, also said it would be “extremely difficult” to refloat the MV Ever Given.The 400-meter-long and 59-meter-wide “MV Ever Given” ran aground in the Suez Canal on Wednesday. Since then, it has been completely blocking the canal…

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