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Corona outbreak after restaurant visit in Lower Saxony

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

Despite the hygiene and distance concept, seven people have apparently become infected with the coronavirus during a restaurant visit in the district of Leer in Lower Saxony. "The infections are presumably related to a visit to a restaurant", the district announced on Friday. These new cases had led to "precautionary home quarantine" already being ordered for at least 50 people. Further test results are still pending. The radio station NDR 1 Lower Saxony had reported the cases. According...

Where does the vaccine for Covid-19 stand?

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University. Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university's Jenner Institute had a head start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that similar inoculations, including one last year against an earlier coronavirus, were harmless to humans. That has enabled them to leap ahead and...

Latest Corona Developments in Germany

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

On April 30th 2020, German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented newely adapted corona rules. First of all it was announced that the contact restrictions would be extended until May 10th in any case. Merkel also made it clear once again that there will be no major events before the end of August. According to the federal government, the ban on major events, which is valid until the end of August, refers to public festivals, major sporting events with spectators, major concerts, festivals,...

Covid-19 and Germany's Leadership to support neighbouring countries

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

Over the past few weeks there has been widespread curiosity about the German health care system. Since the coronavirus outbreak, the infection curve in Germany has risen just as steeply as in Italy, and the measures it has imposed are quite similar to those elsewhere. Yet, its death rate is noticeably lower. Covid-19, has hit Germany with force: According to John Hopkins University, the country had more than 122,215 laboratory-confirmed infections by 11-04-2020, more than any other country...

Flu vaccination: penultimate wave was deadliest in 30 years

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The flu season starts again: time for at-risk patients to get vaccinated! This year, the health insurance companies are again taking over the more expensive quadruple vaccine in order to prevent a flu wave like two years ago. It was the deadliest in 30 years. No one can predict how much flu will spread, because the viruses are extremely changeable. The best time to get vaccinated is around October and November. The flu wave usually reaches its peak after the turn of the year. The flu pathogen...

Germany Private Health Insurance and Corona

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The number of corona infections in Germany is increasing every day - despite efforts by the health authorities to limit the growth. Despite the massive restrictions such as school closings and curfews, it can currently be assumed that the peak of infections has not yet been reached. Even if the course of an infection with Corona is usually more like that of a mild flu, there is still the question of coverage through an existing or planned private health insurance. Here are some possible...

Additional support for German healthcare

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

In order to cope with the corona crisis and to protect Germany from possible consequences, the government has agreed on a huge rescue package. According to the Minister of Finance, the healthcare system will receive 55 billion euros to respond flexibly and quickly to the pandemic. Among other things, the number of intensive care beds is to be doubled. After an official press conference, German Minister of Health Jens Spahn explained which further measures of support are planned for the...

Corona Crisis: Germany decides financial rescue package worth billions

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

To mitigate the consequences of the corona crisis for businesses and citizens, the German federal cabinet has decided on an unprecedented aid package. A supplementary budget with new government debt of 156 billion euros is planned. According to the German Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD), this package has "an order of magnitude that has not yet been reached". The minister spoke of a necessary and correct step. On the one hand, the decline in economic output, which is expected,...

Germany and Coronavirus (COVID-19)

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

As the corona virus COVID-19 spreads across Europe, medical patients with existing conditions are seeking more secure and safe treatment options than that which they would normally have sought. Often during treatment, a patient's immune system is compromised, which makes the threat of a rampart virus very concerning for those already undergoing medical care. Hygiene of clinics and effective procedures and isolation units are now more and more part of the equation when these patients look at...

Financial support for artificial fertilization in Bavaria from 2020

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

From 2020, unintentional childless couples in Bavaria can count on a government grant for the costs of artificial fertilization. A request from the FDP, CSU and Freie Wähler (free voters) was supported by all parliamentary groups of the Bavarian state parliament Wednesday. Such a funding program has existed at federal level in Germany for around seven years. So far, families in Bavaria have not benefited from this because the federal government links its subsidy to simultaneous participation...

The system of statutory health insurance in Germany

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

The central principle of the statutory health insurance system in Germany is the solidarity principle: all members pay into the system depending on their capacity (income), from which the same uniform benefits are made available even to poorer or destitute members. All insured persons receive the same comprehensive care. Age, gender or disease risk play no role in the contribution calculation. History Statutory health insurance (gesetzliche Krankenversicherung - GKV) is the central pillar of...

Health Insurance for Foreigners in Germany

June 2, 2025 • 12:35 PM

In Germany health insurance is an obligation: Everyone who is resident in Germany must be able to prove they have health insurance. Therefore, this obligation also applies to people who are not German. Tips for choosing your health insurance Foreigners and EU citizens in Germany need health insurance, one of either private or statutory (public) health insurance. The admission of foreigners into a statutory health insurance is almost always required if foreigners are permanently employed in...

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