Positive data – BioNTech plans to file for approval of corona vaccine

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Frankfurt/New York, Nov 09 (Reuters) – The Mainz-based biotech company BioNTech is close to a breakthrough with its potential corona vaccine. BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer presented positive efficacy data from the pivotal study with the vaccine on Monday. According to these data, the risk of contracting Covid-19 was more than 90 percent lower for study participants who received the vaccine than without the vaccination. BioNTech and Pfizer are thus the first companies worldwide to present successful data from the study with a corona vaccine, which is crucial for…

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Prison uprising in the Philippines: Three dead and 64 injured

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In a riot in a prison in the Philippines today, three inmates were killed and 64 others injured. According to authorities, it was initially unclear what triggered the violence in the high-security prison New Bilibid Prison in the city of Muntinlupa near Manila. Only in October, nine people were killed in clashes between rival gangs in the prison. Whether the two incidents are connected was still unclear. The notorious New Bilibid Prison has 18,000 inmates. However, surveillance cameras are only installed at strategic locations, and the prisoners are not guarded…

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13,363 new corona infections in Germany

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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was notified of 13,363 new corona cases within 24 hours. That is about 2,650 cases less than on Sunday. On Mondays, the recorded case numbers are usually lower, partly because less testing takes place at the weekend. Last Monday, the number of reported new infections was 12,097. The peak was reached on Saturday with 23,399 reported cases. According to the RKI, a total of 671,868 people have become infected with SARS-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic (as of 09.11., 00.00 hrs). The number of…

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Anschober: measures to contain the coronavirus would be tightened

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Yesterday, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) once again announced that measures to contain the coronavirus would be tightened if the daily number of new infections did not decrease and the number of Covid-19 patients requiring intensive care continued to rise. “The next few days will be days of setting the course. If the effectiveness of the partial lockdown does not provide relief, we will have to tighten the partial lockdown,” Anschober said in a broadcast. The number of reported positive test results (5,933 on Sunday!)) is “still dramatically high”, he…

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Over 50 million infections worldwide

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According to Johns Hopkins University, there are now more than 50 million confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide. The number of deaths associated with the virus since the beginning of the pandemic is 1.25 million, according to data from the University of Baltimore in the USA yesterday. On Saturday alone, the total number of reported infections had increased by more than half a million. The pandemic is spreading rapidly, probably also due to the cooler weather, especially in countries in the northern hemisphere, including Europe and North America. In the USA, almost…

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Bavaria: New quarantine rules on entry into force

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As of today, stricter quarantine regulations apply when entering Bavaria from foreign CoV risk areas. Quarantine obligation will then apply in principle to all Bavarian returnees who have stayed in Tyrol or another risk area for longer than 24 hours, as well as to all foreigners who stay in Germany for longer than 24 hours. So far the period was twice as long. The duration of the quarantine was shortened for it – as in Austria – from 14 to ten days. Compulsory testing for commuters?In Bavaria, however, there is…

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According to experts: This amount of wine per day is beneficial to health

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Are you a true wine fan? And not just since the Corona pandemic? Then we have good news for you, because wine is even good for our health. Namely this daily amount. A nice glass of wine relaxes and goes great with various dishes. No matter which variety you choose, you are not alone. Since the Corona pandemic, wine consumption has increased throughout Austria. Due to the restaurant closures at the beginning of the year, four percent more households have bought regional wine than in the previous year. In addition,…

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More than ten million corona infections in the USA for the first time

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According to the Reuters news agency, the USA is the first nation to break through the mark of ten million corona infections. In the last ten days alone, the United States recorded around one million cases, the highest infection rate since the first case in Washington State. More than 237,000 Americans have died of Covid-19. In total, more than 50 million people worldwide have now been infected and more than 1.25 million have died. Meanwhile, in Brazil the number of known infections increased by 10,554 to a total of more…

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More than 50 million corona infections worldwide

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More than 50 million infections with the novel coronavirus have already been detected worldwide since the outbreak in China in December 2019. Of the 50,010,400 registered corona infections, 1,251,980 were fatal, according to a census by the news agency AFP based on information from the authorities on Sunday. With 12.6 million confirmed corona infections, Europe is the world region most affected by the pandemic. More than 305,000 infected people have already died on the continent. In Latin America and the Caribbean, 11.6 million infections and 411,000 deaths were registered, in…

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