As of Friday, there were still no visible signs that North Korea’s regime wanted to ask anyone for help in its first official coronavirus crisis. The Labor Party organ Rodong Sinmun gave the impression that ruler Kim Jong-un had everything under control. However, the news that the newspaper otherwise had to report did not sound rosy. A day after she reported a North Korean positive test for the omicron mutant from the capital Pyongyang for the first time during the
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Corona lockdown: Shanghai wants to relax carefully
Status: 05/16/2022 11:37 a.m
In Shanghai, the authorities have promised gradual easing after a week-long corona lockdown. But the situation remains tense – and a departure from the Chinese zero-Covid strategy is not to be expected.
According to the authorities, the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai has largely stopped the spread of the corona virus. A strict lockdown is currently still in place for fewer than a million people, said Vice Mayor Zong Ming. The epidemic in our city is under
Coronavirus in North Korea – Politics
Pandemic: Zero Covid strategy does not stop epidemic in China – politics
The so-called lockdown is a rumor, there is no reason to buy more groceries than usual. The population should remain calm. Attempts by Beijing authorities to placate people triggered the exact opposite this week. In many parts of the city, people stormed the supermarkets again.
The city of millions has been fighting a corona wave since the end of April. Officially there is no hard lockdown, staying at home is still just a recommendation. But for almost three weeks now,
Psychology: The pandemic only moderately increased feelings of loneliness – Health
When millions of people suddenly found themselves working from home and arguing about the sense or nonsense of strict lockdowns, numerous other pandemics were diagnosed in the wake of the virus. For example, here and there the view prevailed in the public discussion that Corona increases feelings of loneliness to an alarming extent. In the weeks leading up to the first pandemic Christmas of 2020, for example, tales of depressing holidays, in which people isolated from loved ones sink into
Lockdown Album: Dig Deeper: Emeli Sandé’s «Let’s Say For Instance»
lockdown album
Dig deeper: Emeli Sandé’s «Let’s Say For Instance»
The pandemic gave Emeli Sandé time to slow down. Photo: Olivia Lifungula/dpa
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The new album by the singer Emeli Sandé offers a great variety of sounds. Free from the expectations of others, the Brit reinvents herself and says: “There is so much beauty in slowing down.”
Pop, disco, classic, nostalgic R&B – Emeli Sandé offers a colorful variety on her new album «Let’s Say For Instance».
Without
Tougher lockdown in Shanghai: they call it rest mode
Status: 05/10/2022 2:46 p.m
Shanghai has tightened the corona lockdown again – the city is in rest mode. “We’re angry, but there’s nothing we can do,” says one resident. The administration speaks of the “last battle”.
A metropolis of millions so quiet that the birds chirp louder than the life of the city. And that while in Shanghai, according to the city’s official statements, “the last battle” against the virus is going on. It
Corona: RKI meldet Zahlen ++ Stiko mit dringendem Appell
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- Das RKI meldet am Freitag weiter rückläufige Corona-Zahlen
- Die bundesweite Inzidenz liegt bei 553,2
- Die Ständige Impfkommission fordert bestimmte Personen auf, sich rasch die vierte Impfung geben zu lassen
Berlin. Die Zahl der Corona-Neuinfektionen in Deutschland ist sinkt weiter. Am Freitag lag die Zahl der gemeldeten Neuinfektionen bei 85.073 – gegenüber 101.610 in der Vorwoche. Die bundesweite
Gyms have to pay back contributions from the Corona lockdown
BGH judgment
During corona lockdown: fitness studios have to pay back contributions
Unused exercise equipment is in a closed gym. Anyone who was unable to use their gym during the Corona lockdown is entitled to the membership fees paid during this time.
© Jonas Walzberg / DPA
Anyone who was unable to use their gym during the Corona lockdown is entitled to the membership fees paid during this time. The Federal Court of
Munich woman in Shanghai: In the strict lockdown – Munich
Only going out in the courtyard, buying groceries only online, fear of being sent to the mass isolation camp: how a Munich sinologist, teacher at the German School in Shanghai, experienced the strict lockdown in the mega-metropolis.
Andrea Keller has been in lockdown in a residential building in Shanghai since the beginning of April. She has lived in the city of 26 million people for 13 years and works there as a teacher at the German School. Mandarin and the
There are hundreds of NFTs on OpenSea coming from Shanghai residents during the lockdown.
shanghai city detained as ordered for up to a month which restricted 25 million residents to their homes, initially due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The last time started in March of this year. and developed into the deadliest infection since the start of the pandemic.
Because the virus has spread to hundreds of thousands of people. Super-strict lockdowns have kept residents from leaving their homes for weeks. In addition to the increased infection Lockdowns also prevent people from getting food … Read more
Corona: How the lockdown in Shanghai affects German companies – Economy
Ships are piling up in front of the world’s largest container port, Shanghai, fewer trucks are driving on the roads, and there are no long-haul flights to China: the strict corona restrictions in major Chinese cities are disrupting international supply chains. Now more and more companies from Germany are feeling the consequences.
“The lockdowns in China are indeed having a greater impact on the global economy than the war in Ukraine,” says Frank Appel, head of Deutsche Post. Recently, certain
London’s Savile Row Tailors: The Suit in the Crisis – Politics
Corona, lockdown, home office, even in London many have given up the suit. The tailors on Savile Row think it’s time to start talking about style again.
Of
Alexander Mühlauer, London
James Sleater is late, but still: There is still a parking space for his silver-grey Defender directly in front of his shop on Savile Row. This Friday morning, the streets of London are almost as busy as before Corona. If only it were like that in his shop.
China’s zero-Covid policy: lockdown fears in Beijing
As of: 04/25/2022 7:11 p.m
Authorities in Beijing are warning of a corona outbreak – and the population is reacting by buying hamsters: Many are afraid that the capital will soon be sealed off like Shanghai.
There are now empty supermarket shelves in the Chinese capital Beijing – just like in Shanghai just before the lockdown four weeks ago. Authorities warn that the virus has been spreading undetected in the capital for a week.
Corona lockdown in Shanghai: “We just want to survive”
report
Status: 04/25/2022 10:54 a.m
Empty streets, people locked in, poor care: there is no sign of the relaxation of the corona virus in Shanghai – on the contrary. The tension mounts. Residents desperately call for food.
People are shouting from their windows, using pots and pans to protest. These are scenes from last weekend in the Huangpu district of Shanghai, right in the center of the international metropolis. They are hungry.
Corona lockdown in Shanghai: “We just want to survive”
report
Status: 04/25/2022 10:54 a.m
Empty streets, people locked in, poor care: there is no sign of the relaxation of the corona virus in Shanghai – on the contrary. The tension mounts. Residents desperately call for food.
People are shouting from their windows, using pots and pans to protest. These are scenes from last weekend in the Huangpu district of Shanghai, right in the center of the international metropolis. They are hungry.
China: The country where there must be no crises
China is struggling with a new wave of corona, and the pandemic is just one problem among many. But they all show the political system’s inability to admit mistakes and make course corrections.
Lockdown in Shanghai: German family fears for their children
Nina and Christian Mitzel live with their two children in Shanghai. The parents are very afraid that they will be separated from the children if they are corona positive. In Shanghai, infected children are taken to so-called quarantine camps.
Corona lockdown in Shanghai: Another four million are allowed out again
Status: 04/20/2022 10:52 a.m
At the end of March, the 25 million metropolis of Shanghai was strictly sealed off. Now the authorities are carefully relaxing the isolation: another four million citizens are now allowed to leave their homes again.
The authorities in the Chinese financial metropolis of Shanghai have relaxed the strict corona restrictions for a further four million people. The health authorities said they were allowed to leave their apartments and houses.
The virus is effectively under control in
For the first time since the lockdown began: three corona deaths in Shanghai
Status: 04/18/2022 03:48 a.m
For the first time since the start of the strict lockdown, there have been corona deaths in the Chinese city of Shanghai. Authorities reported that three elderly people had died from the virus.
The local authorities in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai have reported the first corona deaths since the start of a large-scale lockdown in the city. It was about three elderly people with underlying diseases, as the city administration announced.
Shanghai has been under
Shanghai lockdown chaos: ‘Is it okay if I die?’
With old weapons, China is fighting a new enemy: Omikron BA.2. Curfews, mass testing and quarantine are becoming less effective. Millions of people have been stuck in their apartments in Shanghai for weeks. The supply is bad. Desperation grows.
Mr. Yu wants to see a doctor and has a slight fever. “I have nothing to eat. I feel terrible,” the elderly gentleman said in an urgent phone call to his neighborhood committee in