In the following weeks, the corona crisis could create a situation for germany’s hospitals that has never been seen before in the history of the federal republic: with intensive care units overloaded, doctors had to decide in the worst case who could live and who had to die.

Fortunately, this is not yet the case anywhere in germany, but the epidemic has not yet reached its peak. A situation like that in italy with overburdened intensive care units must be avoided in germany, but it cannot be ruled out, the head of the robert koch institute (RKI), lothar wieler, recently said. "We do everything to prevent this from happening."

Germany and france currently consider mandatory PCR testing for coronavirus when traveling within the eu to be inappropriate.

"We have no intention of introducing these tests within the european union because we attach great importance to the smooth functioning of our common area," french president emmanuel macron said at a joint press conference with german chancellor olaf scholz on friday night after the eu summit in brussel. In addition, the effectiveness of such a mabnahme would be very reduced, because cross-border commuters were usually exempt from them.

The town pub of the kitzingen town marketing association at the town balcony in summer was a success under the conditions and restrictions of the corona pandemic and a joy for many people. Some passers-by are less pleased that even in the first week of november, traces of the "stadtschoppen" can still be seen at the town balcony in sthashaus – for example in the form of barriers that have been "crisscrossed" there in the meantime are distributed, as a contributor of this editorial office has reported. Sales hats from the stadtschoppen are also still in place, barricaded and locked. At least the red and white warning barks, which were also still there in the middle of the week, have been picked up in the meantime.

The fact that hutten and gitter are still there is due to considerations by the city marketing association to possibly put on an event there during the advent season after all. "We’re still keeping a plan B open, reports frank gimperlein at the request of this editorial team. In principle, the city marketing association had liked "a kind of christmas market or something similar" planned, says the chairman of the city marketing association. But in view of the current partial lockdown and the restrictions imposed by the corona pandemic, those responsible had to wait and see and then react spontaneously when it became clear in the second half of november which restrictions would apply beyond the end of the month.

Number of unemployed in bavaria fell again in october. Just under 278,000 people were out of work in the month, almost 15,000 fewer than in september, according to the bavarian regional office of the federal employment agency (BA) on thursday. The unemployment rate dropped by 0.2 percentage points to 3.7 percent. It is normal for unemployment to fall after the summer vacations. But in this year overshadowed by the corona crisis, it is a positive signal.

"The seasonal upturn on the labor market in the fall is stronger this year", said the head of the regional office, ralf holtzwart.

China has identified a pork knuckle imported via bremerhaven as the trigger for a new corona case. According to state media reports, a worker in a cold storage house in the eastern chinese city of tianjin has been infected.

According to the report, tests have detected traces of the virus on the packaging of a frozen pork knuckle that was transported to china via a port in the federal state of bremen and arrived in tianjin on october 19. October in tianjin. From there she was taken to the city of dezhou.

Staying at home is the main challenge at the moment. Gabi weber from stockheim uses this time to help other people. She admits that she did not come up with this good idea on her own. Rather, it was mayor rainer detsch who gave the impetus to help.

The head of the mining community of stockheim called the tailor to see if she could help out at short notice. He wanted to help his employees in the administration and in the building yard, but also those who perform their duties at the kindergarten and the schools for the maintenance of an emergency care, with nose and mouth masks. "I also wanted to contact the fire department to see if there was a need there", says detsch. He sees now as the time to act.