1. Dead: 6,054 Infections: 157,497 (Focus numbers). Bavaria leads with 1,708 deaths, of the sixteen German states.
2. Mass infection report of Romanians who work in Germany....at a slaughterhouse in the Baden-Wurttemberg region. Suggested number is around 200 of the 'contracted' workers. Everyone in some type of home-quarantine situation, and a fair number reporting no symptoms at this point.
3. A test phase started up with a vaccine, with a company out of Mainz as the lead. Results? You won't know until June, and that will likely lead to a second round of testing. It might be toward the last quarter of the year before this goes to mass production.
4. Fair amount of chatter going on over summer vacations, and the odds that the government won't sign up for open-travel. It's fairly dismal for the hotel-industry in Germany.
5. Agreement within the coalition government to improve the short-time work benefits, but ONLY temporarily (to end of 2020).
New deal would be you getting 80-percent (if single or married, and 87-percent (if with kids) of your 'normal paycheck'.
This is for the furlough crowd. Presently, around 700k companies in Germany have identified workers who are on furlough at this point.
6. Masks procured and for sale now? The German grocery LIDL says that you can find masks with them (box of 50 for 33 Euro). LIDL says there's zero profit in what they have procured, and there's a limited amount in their hands presently.
ALDI Sud and DM also are selling masks.....package of 10 for 6.99 Euro. In the DM case, to enter the store....you have to have a mask or buy one of theirs at the door.....one Euro per mask.
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