1. N-TV reported last night....RKI announced new German national rules on Covid-19 testing. Because testing is reaching a challenge for the German system....RKI says IF you have regular symptoms for a regular COLD, doctors are not supposed to give you a slip for a Covid-19 test.
The odds that Covid-19 sickly folks will be 'missed'? Best not to bring up that angle.
2. Wiesbaden city officials had a meeting yesterday....to determine if school kids are required to wear a mask for the whole day at school. Rule established....will start next week.
3. Back on the 1st of October....362 folks were sitting in ICU beds (around 1,900 German hospitals). Today? 2,243 folks. Around 8k ICU beds still available, and they could get more, if elective surgery were discontinued.
4. As of last night, on the official count....for pervious 24 hours....total of 24,901 people were newly infected across Germany. Total deaths from day one, 10,878.
5. The Infection Protection Act is to be discussed by the Merkel cabinet on Friday, with changes likely coming. Paragraph 28a is to be discussed (to a changed wording).....which allows both the state government AND federal government to make up ban rules. In effect....the federal apparatus could finally order the states and cities to enforce certain ban rules.
The aim of this is mostly directed at bars, pubs, and restaurants. Judges are viewing the orders given so far, and German law doesn't give a lot of support to certain ban rules.
Acceptance by the states? I would have my doubts.
Also on the plate, a discussion over people returning from out-of-country trips, and put into quarantine. Up until now, you could still receive wages (call it lost wages). The discussion will put the idea up that you took the risk of going out of the country.....so you don't get compensation for that.
Also on that talk...the government wants you to detail where you were ten days prior to the trip, and ten days after the trip. Private data that some people won't share? I would imagine so. But they'd force you to sign the document, and there's probably punishment if you lied on some minor detail.
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