1. City of Wiesbaden announced the update death count...since day one....now at 27. Latest victim was 85 years old. Vast majority of deaths in the city are individuals over 70 years old.
New infections for yesterday reported? 33 (remember Wiesbaden is a town of 291k residents). Number of folks on home or hospital quarantine? 196 presently.
2. Frankfurt city now has 60 German Army members assisting in the Corona paperwork/database efforts.
3. State of Hessen turned on 'sick-leave-by-phone' action again. Had been a big deal in the spring with limited use. Normally, you need to appear in front of a doctor, and he signs the note.
4. Big long mess to clean up at a Kassel (Hessen) refugee center. Massive testing done and around one-third of residents were Corona-positive. Authorities wanted a complete lock-down and quarantine of all folks. This apparently didn't settle well with the non-Corona folks and police had to be called in. Eventually, authorities were forced to allow non-positive folks to be moved out and away from the sick folks.
5. Border controls again? Well, it's openly discussed now in Bavaria....to prevent Covid-sick folks from entering the country. Fed decision? Apparently not, and it's just another demonstration how this is a state by state problem.
6. Country-wide, Germany is saying that they still have 9k empty intensive care beds standing by. Differs region by region.
7. Another complete shut-down looming?
Well...at some point (maybe by early November).....they will drag back up the shut-down business (done for 3 months earlier in the year), and call it something else but it'll be a basic standard shut-down period (my humble belief).
The economy, especially with Christmas holidays looming....probably can't handle a period of a shut-down. Will be a serious amount of frustration and disenchantment over this idea.
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