Germany: Several killed in knife attack in Wuerzburg; attacker arrested, say police
World | June 26, 2021 0:01 ISTGerman police say several people have been killed and others injured in a knife attack in the southern city of Wuerzburg on Friday.
German police say several people have been killed and others injured in a knife attack in the southern city of Wuerzburg on Friday.
Although the share of the Covid-19 Delta variant in Germany is only 6 per cent of the new cases, the strain is spreading at a fast pace, Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said.
According to local police authorities, in Bavaria alone there have been "a number of cases in the low double-digits", dpa news agency reported.
Germany will start vaccination children over the age of 12 against Covid-19 from June 7.
An IAF C17 Globemaster was tasked to airlift medical supplies from Germany's Frankfurt to Mumbai.
Germany will always support India in difficult times, says German Ambassador Walter J Lindner.
Germany sends mobile oxygen production plant to India as Nation fights covid.
Health authorities have said that benefits of getting inoculated against COVID-19 far outweigh any risks, and Spahn said many people still waiting for an appointment for their first shot would be happy to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.
India will be importing oxygen generation plants and containers from Germany to cater oxygen shortage in the country.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and the 16 state health ministers came to the decision in an emergency meeting, after authorities in the cities of Berlin and Munich decided to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people under the age of 60.
Coronavirus infections have increased steadily in Germany as the more contagious variant first detected in Britain has become dominant, and the country’s daily number of cases per capita has passed that of the United States.
At least a dozen countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have now temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine amid reports that some people who got a dose developed blood clots.
Full-service carrier Vistara on Thursday commenced its flight operations to Germany from India with the launch of a non-stop flight to Frankfurt from Delhi under the air bubble agreement between the two countries.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was “absolutely necessary” to maintain restrictions, particularly in light of a more infectious variant of the virus that emerged in England.
In a report published on Monday, the German national daily Die Welt said that researchers at Hannover Medical School detected the new variant in samples of an elderly patient who teted positive around November and later died.
National carrier Air India on Friday said it will operate flights to Germany from October 26.
Low cloud and mist made for poor visibility around the Nürburgring track and it was declared unsafe for the medical helicopter to take off before time ran out for the 90-minute session.
Manuel Neuer is on track to play for Germany for the first time in 11 months after he was named to the squad Friday for upcoming games against Turkey, Ukraine and Switzerland.
Lufthansa Airtlines, largest German airline and combined with its subsidiaries, is the second largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried, has cancelled all flights from India between September 30 to October 20 after issue with DGCA on number of flights allowed per week.
The Free Balochistan Movement organized a demonstration and a protest rally against the murder of Hayat Mirza Baloch in the Hamburg city of Germany.
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