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How will covid vaccinations be rolled out in Germany

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

When will a vaccine be available in Germany and how will its distribution work? The first vaccine could be available by the end of December. The EU already has contracts with six vaccine manufacturers. From these companies, according to a Handelsblatt report, Germany has secured vaccine doses for a total of 170 million people. The German government expects the first vaccines to be approved at the end of the year or in early 2021. The first promising candidate is considered to be BNT162b2, the...

Doctor and CSU member criticizes Söder's lockdown

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

A dispute has broken out in the CSU over Söder's attempts to combat the corona pandemic. Hans Theiss, professor and medical doctor at the LMU Clinic in Großhadern, as well as deputy faction leader and health policy spokesman for the CSU in the city hall, has sharply attacked Prime Minister Markus Söder in an open letter on Facebook. "I have so far kept silent out of party loyalty, but what is too much is too much", claims Herr Theiss. "Covid is worse than 'the usual flu',every single death...

Christmas Corona Lockdown in Bavaria

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The Bavarian state government has again decided on stricter rules for Bavaria than for the rest of Germany. General restrictions are to apply from Wednesday, as Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) defied those within his own party. The place of residence for citizens, may then only be left "for valid reasons"; for example for work, visits to the doctor, school, shopping, sports, church services or visits to another household (if the contact restrictions are observed). In regions with a...

Period products free for women in Scotland

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

In a bizarre and unashamedly sexist move, the Scottish parliament decided to further increase the rapidly exaggerated levels of female privilege, by legislating for free period products for women. Universities, schools and colleges will have to provide these sanitary products at their own expense, under threat of legal action. Local authorities will police this matter and enforce it if necessary. Additionally, the government will roll out further services to make these products accessible to...

Corona brings health insurance companies to their financial limits

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The costs of the corona crisis are a burden on health insurance companies. The Techniker Krankenkasse health insurance company warns against a drastic increase in additional contributions to the statutory health insurance schemes and calls for the state to take countermeasures. Private health insurers are also likely to become more expensive. The head of the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), Jens Baas, warns of rising additional contributions to the statutory health insurance funds. "Next year, the...

We need a common sense approach to this pandemic

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The millennium's first global pandemic, Covid-19, swept from country to country leaving chaos in its wake. Now, as the second wave ominously bears down upon us, we need to bravely address the economic consequences of over-caution and indecision, in addition to the more obvious health-related effects. Identifying common sense routes to a more sustainable and healthy response than that employed for the first wave, is our only realistic option. To do otherwise, would offer nothing more than a...

RKI optimistic despite high number of new infections

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is "cautiously optimistic" due to an apparent slowdown in  the growth of infected patients. This hints that the virus can still be controlled. RKI raises the concern that people will have to live with measures such as face masks, social-distancing and regular ventilation for some time to come, as well as forced- and self-quarantining. They state that even if the vaccine research materialises into a working solution, it will take time until a...

Biontech Covid-19 vaccine a step closer

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The EU Commission has finalized sped-up negotiations for a contract to supply the latest covid-19 vaccine from the pharmaceutical companies Biontech and Pfizer. CDU Health Minister Jens Spahn had previously announced a quick conclusion of the contract. Germany hopes to secure up to 100 million vaccine doses in the coming months. Spahn emphasized that the approval procedures would be accelerated both in the USA and the EU, but that the requirements for the safety and effect of a substance...

Bavarian government announces further easing of measures

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The Bavarian cabinet elaborated on further easing of the anti-corona measures on May 26. Here are the most important changes at a glance:   Cinemas, theatres and concerts Bavarian theatres and cinemas may reopen from 15 June. Concerts and other cultural events can also be held again from this date. According to the Minister of Art, Bernd Sibler (CSU), 100 visitors are initially permitted for outdoor cultural events, while the limit indoors is 50. As a next step, a limit of 500 or 350...

Corona outbreak after restaurant visit in Lower Saxony

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

Despite the hygiene and distance concept, seven people have apparently become infected with the coronavirus during a restaurant visit in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony. "The infections are presumably related to a visit to a restaurant", the district announced on Friday. These new cases had led to "precautionary home quarantine" already being ordered for at least 50 people. Further test results are still pending. The radio station NDR 1 Lower Saxony had reported the cases. According...

Where does the vaccine for Covid-19 stand?

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University. Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university's Jenner Institute had a head start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that similar inoculations, including one last year against an earlier coronavirus, were harmless to humans. That has enabled them to leap ahead and...

Latest Corona Developments in Germany

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

On April 30th 2020, German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented newely adapted corona rules. First of all it was announced that the contact restrictions would be extended until May 10th in any case. Merkel also made it clear once again that there will be no major events before the end of August. According to the federal government, the ban on major events, which is valid until the end of August, refers to public festivals, major sporting events with spectators, major concerts, festivals,...

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