Published January 18, 2022
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Nach Drostens Befund: Politiker für Ende aller Corona-Maßnahmen
Der Berliner Virologe Christian Drosten hält die Corona-Pandemie für beendet. Deshalb fordert Justizminister Buschmann die Aufhebung aller Schutzmaßnahmen. Auch Bayerns Gesundheitsminister Holetschek sieht die „Phase der Eigenverantwortung“ gekommen.
Virologe Drosten: Corona-Pandemie ist vorbei
(26.12.2022)
Die Corona-Pandemie ist nach Ansicht des Virologen Christian Drosten vorüber. „Wir erleben in diesem Winter die erste endemische Welle mit Sars-CoV-2, nach meiner Einschätzung ist damit die Pandemie vorbei“, sagte der Leiter der Virologie an der Berliner Universitätsklinik Charité dem „Tagesspiegel“.
China scraps inbound quarantine rules in decisive break with zero-Covid regime
China will remove quarantine requirements for inbound travellers from January 8 as the country dismantles the remnants of a zero-Covid regime that closed it off from the rest of the world for almost three years.
The National Health Commission on Monday unveiled the move as part of a wider announcement that downgraded the country’s management of Covid-19 and definitively abandoned a host of other preventive measures.
New weather maps show wall of snow to dump up to 7 inches on UK in icy -4C Arctic blast
The charts show between 11cm (4.3 inches) and 20cm (7.8 inches) of snow falling north of the English border on December 30.
Parts of northern England can also expect to see between 3cm (1.1 inches) to 8cm (3.1 inches) of fresh snow on December 30.
2 Ontario regions declare state of emergency amid storm chaos
Niagara, Chatham-Kent in southern Ontario have states of emergency in place as blizzard conditions cause power outages and road blockages.
Heavy Snow in Japan Leaves 17 Dead, Dozens Injured
Dozens of trains and flights were also suspended in northern Japan through Sunday, but services have since mostly resumed, according to the transportation ministry.
28 Dead in ‘Once in a Generation’ Blizzard in Western New York
“This has been a very difficult and dangerous storm,” Buffalo’s mayor, Byron Brown, said at a news conference on Monday. “It’s been described as a once-in-a-generation storm. And everything that has been forecast, we have gotten in the city of Buffalo, and then some.”
A driving ban remained in place in Buffalo, a city of around 270,000 people, and in some of its immediate suburbs as the authorities pleaded with residents to remain home.
Death toll rises to at least 55 as freezing temperatures and heavy snow wallop swaths of U.S.
Stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the Mexican border, the storm has killed at least 55 people as of Monday morning, according to an NBC News tally. The deaths were recorded in 12 states: Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin.