News Update
Headlines 24.06.2021
Germany News
Germany News Update
Coronavirus Update: RKI registers 1008 new cases and 93 deaths in the past day - Incidence Rate down at 6.6 - R value at 0.72
Germany News Update
Share of Delta Variant almost doubled in a week: According to the Robert Koch Institute, the proportion of the more contagious delta variant of the corona virus has almost doubled in Germany within a week. Younger unvaccinated people could even push the delta proportion to 90 percent across Europe by August.
Germany News Update
Germany Enters "Achtelfinale" (round of top 16) in UEFA Euro 2020: After a close match with Hungary yesterday, where the match ended as a draw with 2:2, Germany managed to reserve it's place in the next round of matches in the UEFA Euro 2020
Details: https://www.tagesschau.de/sport/sportschau/em-deutschland-ungarn-101.html
International News
India News Update
India's Daily new COVID-19 case Count at 54,069 in the past day - 6.3% higher than yesterday. Death count in the past 24 hours at 1,321. Active cases decreased by 16,327 in the past 24 hours.
USA News Update
Kamala Harris To Visit US-Mexico Border Under Immigration Scrutiny - Kamala Harris's senior advisor Symone Sanders said that the vice president will visit the border city of El Paso, Texas, and will be accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Headlines 23.06.2021
Germany News
Germany News Update
Coronavirus Update: RKI registers 1016 new cases and 51 deaths in the past day - Incidence Rate down at 7.2 - R value at 0.68
Germany News Update
Lukashenko attacks Germany sharply because of sanctions - The Belarusian head of state links the West’s punitive measures to the German attack on the Soviet Union 80 years ago. Pointing at German Foreign Minister Maas, he asked whether this was a "legacy of the Nazis".
Germany News Update
UEFA decides - Munich Stadium cannot show solidarity with LGBT community by lighting up in Raindow colors
Details: https://www.tagesschau.de/sport/uefa-zu-regenbogenfarben-103.html
International News
India News Update
India's Daily new COVID-19 case Count at 50,848 in the past day - 19% higher than yesterday. Death count in the past 24 hours at 1,358. Active cases decreased by 19,327 in the past 24 hours.
USA News Update
"Delta Variant Greatest Threat To US Pandemic Response": says Top Expert Fauci - "The transmissibility is unquestionably greater" in the Delta variant than the original variant of COVID-19, Dr Anthony Fauci said, adding that "it is associated with an increased disease severity."
Headlines 22.06.2021
Germany News
Germany News Update
Coronavirus Update: RKI registers 455 new cases and 77 deaths in the past day - Incidence Rate down at 8.0 - R value at 0.68
Germany News Update
Hospital Summit: Merkel thanks doctors and nurses for their committment during the pandemic
Details: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/krankenhausgipfel-101.html
International News
India News Update
India's Daily new COVID-19 case Count at 42,640 in the past day - lowest in last 91 days. Death count in the past 24 hours at 1,167. India's daily test positivity rate at 2.56 percent
Nepal News Update
"Yoga Originated In Nepal, Not India": Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
On International Yoga Day, KP Sharma Oli said Yoga originated in Nepal, not in India. At the time when Yoga came into existence, there was no existence of India; it was divided into factions.
USA News Update
U.S. shares plan to allocate 55 million vaccines
from its stockpile - At the G7 in the U.K. last week, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would purchase and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to low and middle-income countries.
Headlines 21.06.2021
Germany News
Germany News Update
Coronavirus Update: RKI registers 346 new cases and 10 deaths in the past day - Incidence Rate down at 8.6
Germany News Update
The Federal Audit Office has taken the Ministry of Health's mask purchase practice to court. Minister Spahn cannot understand this. In the report from Berlin he defends his "unconventional actions".
Details: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/corona-spahn-bab-101.html
International News
India News Update
India's Daily new COVID-19 case Count at 53,256 in the past day. India's daily test positivity rate at 3.83 percent
India News Update
When Covid Hit, No Country Was Prepared; Yoga Helped: PM Modi
UK News Update
The British government said Sunday it will permit outdoor non-religious wedding ceremonies in England and Wales for the first time, boosting a sector hard-hit by the pandemic
Details: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-uk-allows-outdoor-weddings-for-first-time-2468281