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Today's corona news in 60 seconds +++ School plan delayed +++ Choice between vaccines? +++ Lauterbach's "super summer" +++ The stats +++  Elizabeth Rushton, 11.1.2021 - 10:00 Uhr Artikel anhören Photo: Sabine Gudath Take me to "super summer", please: taxis line up outside Arena Treptow to bring patients to and from their corona jabs. Berlin - Every weekday at 11am come to the Berliner Zeitung English Edition for the corona/Covid-19 news at a glance. �� The latest corona stats for Berlin (tallied Sunday , 10 January) 340 (732 Saturday) 1,565 (+5 over Saturday) �� R number:...

Berlin news update: Monday, January 11 Expand Berlin's government has committed €3.3 million to clean up the city's streets this year. Photo: Leon Seibert / Unsplash 15-kilometre travel limit planned, all Covid traffic lights on red, Müller admits schools mistakes Tagesspiegel reports. According to the strategy agreed by the federal government and state leaders this month, an index of 200 or above requires the introduction of a citywide ban on people travelling further than 15 kilometres outside Berlin. Journeys excluded from the rule include going to work, visits to the doctor ...

Kitas, explained For Berlin parents, the discussion over when and how schools and daycare will open has been incredibly confusing. An explainer, in plain English. Maurice Frank, 7.1.2021 - 16:03 Uhr Artikel anhören Empy classroom at a Neukölln school.  Berlin - Earlier this week, Germany's "hard lockdown" was extended till the end of January. Online lessons resumed this week and schools will begin reopening step-by-step on Monday, 11 January. But Berlin's plan is complicated. Berlin's state education minister Sandra Scheeres, summed up plans for partial reopening as such: "The infe...

More than 30,000 daily infections in Germany and war-like conditions in hospitals The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are becoming more dramatic every day in Germany. After a new record death toll of 952 was reported on Wednesday, the number of those infected also reached a new all-time high on Thursday, exceeding the 30,000 mark for the first time. Across Germany, the positive test rate is currently around 12 percent—more than double the value that epidemiologists cite as the threshold beyond which the infection incidence runs out of control. Refrigerated container for coronavirus dead at...

Germany’s “hard lockdown” protects corporations at expense of lives On Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of Germany’s federal states announced a joint resolution that the media unanimously called a “hard lockdown.” But the measures do not go anywhere near what is needed to bring the pandemic under control. The focus is not on protecting lives but corporate profits. For example, large factories can remain open without exception, even if they produce nonessential goods. According to the resolution, corporate bosses are merely “asked to consider whether plants...