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Covid-19-News from Germany and around the world – the top stories: the Federal government classifies Turkey as a Corona-risk area (06.18 PM) WHO: dexamethasone study "Durchbruch" in the fight against Covid-19 (06.17 PM) 290 new Corona cases – the R-value decreases to 1.00 (21.26 PM) the New York city borough of the Bronx: Perhaps one in three had already Covid-19 (19.22 PM)

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The Federal government classifies Turkey as a Corona-risk area

06.18 PM: The Federal government has the Turkey, along with 130 other countries, as a Corona-risk area classified. On the list, which was released on Monday for the first Time by the Robert-Koch-Institute (RKI) and now is regularly updated, there are also other popular vacation countries of the Germans, such as Egypt, Thailand and Morocco.

Passengers from a high-risk area need to expect that you have 14 days in quarantine. For these countries, a repeal of the still for more than 160 countries outside of the European Union-wide travel warning, according to the current state it is hardly possible.

Especially the Turkey, the third most popular holiday destination of Germans to Spain and Italy, pushing for a repeal of this travel warning and advertises to German tourists. Turkish foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu had shown a few days ago, disappointed by the retention of the travel warning. “The scientific reasons behind the decision are hard for us,” he said to the “mirror”. Everything is prepared for a safe journey in Turkey. Marius Becker/dpa , An empty beach in Antalya, Turkey (archive picture)

WHO: dexamethasone study "Breakthrough" in the fight against Covid-19

06.17 PM: The world health organization (WHO) the encouraging results of a British study on the treatment of Covid-19-patients with the active ingredient, dexamethasone, is located. It was a "life-saving scientific Durchbruch", WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the night to Wednesday in Geneva. Reuters/WHO/Christopher Black/WHO/Christopher Black/AP/dpa , The Director-General of the world health organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warns in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic of carelessness.

Dexamethasone, the first form of treatment, the death rate of respiration machines connected Covid-19-detected patients, dimensions of the sink was. Tedros spoke of "great Neuigkeiten" and congratulated the British government.

Researchers led by a team at the University of Oxford had administered for the government-financed study, the widely available drug for ten days, more than 2000 with the Coronavirus-infected patients. Accordingly, dexamethasone reduced the mortality rate of the ventilator-dependent patient is 35 percent. For patients with only oxygen were administered, reduced the mortality rate by a fifth.

In patients with a milder disease course of dexamethasone, however, showed no effect. As a control, the researchers studied 4000 patients that were not treated with dexamethasone. Detailed Reviews of the clinical trial have not been published yet.

Dexamethasone is included in a variety of anti-inflammatory drugs. It is used to treat allergic reactions, rheumatoid Arthritis and Asthma. According to British researchers, the daily doses could prevent every eighth death in critically ill Covid patients.

The scientists celebrated the discovery as "large Durchbruch" in the fight against the novel Coronavirus, the disease brought. They emphasised that dexamethasone is readily available and inexpensive. The British government put the funds immediately to the list of standard procedures of the National health service NHS counter-Covid-19.

290 new Corona cases – the R-value drops to 1.00, no new infections in the Saarland

21.26 PM: The number of coronavirus infections in Germany rose to 290. Overall, the country reported health – and social ministries 18 new cases of death in Germany. Saarland reported no new Corona cases, from Bremen, were reported to pay no current Infection. Overall, Germany is now 186.834 infections in 8.789 deaths. According to the RKI 173.100 people are currently in this country as recovered.

The reproduction number, in short the R-value was 1.00 and at the critical level, compared to yesterday, the value has decreased, however slightly. This means that an Infected in the Mediterranean infects about one other people. The R-value in each case forms the infection from happening about a week and a half before. The day before, he had stood at 1.19.

Here you will find the currently reported Figures by the health ministries of the countries.

• Baden-Württemberg: 35.181 (1.811 Deaths)
• Bavaria: 47.696 (2.539 Deaths)
• Berlin: 7.368 (208 Deaths)
• Brandenburg: 3.334 (170 Deaths)
• Bremen: Of 1,596 (48 Deaths)*
• Hamburg: 5.148 (228 Deaths)
• Hesse: 10.371 (495 Deaths)
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: 786 (20 Deaths)
• Lower Saxony: 12.924 (616 Deaths)
• North Rhine-Westphalia: 39.412 (1.648 Deaths)
• Rhineland-Palatinate: 6.846 (233 Deaths)
• Saarland: 2.754 (170 Deaths)
• Saxony: 5.344 (219 Deaths)
• Saxony-Anhalt: 1.776 (57 Deaths)
• Schleswig-Holstein: 3.122 (152 Deaths)
• Thuringia: A Total Of 3,176 (175 Deaths)

*the national health and social ministries of these countries announced at the present day, no current Infections

Total (As Of 16.06., 20: 25 PM): 186.834 (8.789 Deaths)

The Previous Day (As Of 15.06., 20.31 PM): 186.544 (8.771 Deaths)

Source to be Infected – and death-figures: country health and social ministries.

The number of Healed, according to the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, at around 173.100.

Currently, the RKI reported reproduction number: 1,00 (as of 16.06.)

The New York city borough of the Bronx: Perhaps one in three had already Covid-19

19.22 PM: In Parts of the metropolis New York was, possibly, one in three people already with the Coronavirus infected. The Pay of an anti-body study, which has explained the Governor of the state, Andrew Cuomo, on Tuesday. In particularly hard by the pandemic affected and tend to be the poorer area of the Bronx had been found, therefore, at 32.6 percent of all Tested antibodies. In Brooklyn and Queens, this was still a good every fifth trial of the case, in the richer Manhattan, every sixth trial was a 16.5 per cent positive.

Overall, the Reviewed were found in the city of New York, at 21.6 percent, the antibodies which develop after an infection with the Coronavirus. In the entire state of New York between 1. May and 13. June, around 12 000 people randomly selected and tested. At 13.4 percent of the Test was positive. Many researchers assume that those who had the pathogen of Sars-CoV-2 already, at least for a certain period of time, immune to the disease Covid-19. The current antibody studies are in an early stage of development, and it is unclear how accurate they are.

Border closing between the United States and Canada extended for a month

18.31 PM: fear Of a further spread of the Coronavirus to the border between the United States and Canada for a further month, largely remain closed. The border should now only after 21. July re-open, said the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, as canadian media reported. "This is an important decision, the wird&quot protect the people in the two countries;, Trudeau said.

Brinkhaus warns of over-rapid relaxations: "The pandemic is not überwunden"

16.64 watch: Union leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) has been reluctant to rapid further easing of the restrictions in the Corona-crisis expressed. There are also countries in which there is a resurgence of the pandemic, said Brinkhaus on Tuesday before a meeting of the Union group in Berlin, with a view to China. "This is why you should do what is medically justifiable, but should also remain cautious." He warned: "The pandemic is not overcome." In Saxony, for example, there are thoughts games, to loosen the mask duty when shopping. dpa/Kay Nietfeld/dpa Ralph Brinkhaus, Chairman of the parliamentary group of the CDU and the CSU

Before the first personal Meeting of the Prime Minister with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) after the peak phase of the Corona pandemic in Germany this Wednesday in the Chancellery Brinkhaus said, if it is medically justifiable, there would be relaxations. He would be pleased, "if the Prime Minister could decide together that we have a unified strategy and a unified approach." This is very important.

The new official Corona-App of the Federal government, he had already loaded in the Morning. "Feedback you get, I think only after a certain period of time. That is, the flickering, the App", Brinkhaus said. He was fascinated by the possibilities and excited. Also in the group Executive Board, many members have downloaded the App already. "We are the backing very, very offensive. And I think it’s necessary, but I think it’s also technologically exciting." The complex App was very quickly.

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