Switzerland’s outdated medical reporting system still relies on fax and manual data entry, which has led to a number of confusing mistakes.

On Saturday, it appeared Switzerland had recorded its first child victim of the coronavirus, until the victim was found to be 109 rather than 9. 

The reason? The country’s outdated medical record-keeping system, which relies primarily on fax rather than electronic record-keeping, had recorded that the victim was born in 1911 rather than 2011. 

Over the same week, a similar error saw one 87-year-old victim recorded as being 27 years of age – due to a similar failing. 

Children and young people have been largely unaffected by the virus in Switzerland and elsewhere – meaning that the reports represented a significant departure from the existing data in Switzerland. As at April 29th, there have been just under 1,700 deaths in Switzerland due to the virus – however nobody under the age of 30 has died in Switzerland and only six people between the ages of 30 and 50 have passed away due to Covid-19. 

https://www.thelocal.ch/20200429/nine-year-old-corona-victim-was-actually-109-switzerlands-fax-based-reporting-system-causes-confusion

Europe’s largest economy will contract by 6.6 percent this year, marking the country’s worst recession in post-war history, the Munich-based Institute for Economic Research (IFO), one of Germany’s leading think-tanks said on Wednesday.

In its April survey of around 8,800 companies, the think-tank found that Germany’s economic output had fallen by 16 percent across all industries due to the national lockdown measures, which have been in place since March 22, and the survey expected a 12.2 percent fall in the second quarter based on companies’ capacity utilization data.

“We won’t be back to the pre-corona situation until the end of 2021,” Timo Wollmershaeuser, head of economic forecasting at IFO, said in a statement. That would require an economic expansion of 8.5 percent next year, he added.

Several of Germany’s economic sectors have been hard-hit by the effects of coronavirus restrictions, with ravel agencies and tour operators reporting the biggest slump, followed by the aviation, hotel and restaurant industries.

The arts and entertainment sector and vehicle manufacturing have also been affected. The only industry that has seen a boost has been the pharmaceutical sector. This has been reflected by a recent jump in shares of German pharma giant Bayer.

IFO predicted that once the lockdown is gradually eased, all sectors of the economy could see a boost beginning with the third quarter.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the country is far from out of the woods with the pandemic, and there are fears that a second wave could hit the country now that shops and playgrounds have been largely allowed to open in most states. Some students will also return to classes as of May 4.

According to the latest data, Germany had 161,539 coronavirus cases, the sixth highest number in the world, but its death rate of 77 per million was significantly lower than in Spain, the worst-hit European country (236,899 cases), where the death rate is 519 per million.

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The German migrant NGO “Mission Lifeline” is working diligently to raise money in order to fly scores of migrants from Greece to Germany.

According to the organization’s spokesman, the NGO has managed to raise about 55,000 euros in the few days since they first announced their plan. The money would be used to pay for two separate flights that would transport approximately 150 migrants from Greek camps to Germany.

If the NGO has its way, it would like to see a kind of migrant taxi system between the Greek island Lesbos and Berlin introduced. As of right now, the NGO’s efforts have been hindered by Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior, which has yet to give the organization permission to fly in migrants from Greece.

The German government isn’t the only national government that “Mission Lifeline” is trying to persuade to take in migrants from Greek camps. The organization is in the process of convincing other EU member states to do the same, Junge Freiheit reports.

Mission Lifeline argues that outbreaks of the virus in camps would “result in countless deaths”, despite not having any hard data to back up such claims.

Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior has advised the NGO against “raising unrealistic expectations of asylum seekers in the already tense situation on the Greek islands with an arbitrary approach”.

Last month, the German government claimed that it would be accepting some unaccompanied or sick, female migrant children from Greek camps. Despite these claims, of the 50 or so migrants who recently landed in Germany, just four were girls. As to whether the male migrants who were flown in are actually ill or under the age of 14, we’ll probably never know.

Last fall, a study conducted by the Institute of Legal Medicine in Münster revealed that nearly half of migrants who claim to be under the age of eighteen are actually adults. In the study, legal physicians investigated the age of 600 so-called ‘unaccompanied minor refugees” whose ages had been in doubt. What the researchers found was shocking.

Of the 600 ‘unaccompanied minors’ who were forensically examined by physicians, 40 percent of the young men were adults, Voice of Europe reported. Most of these men were from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Algeria, and Guinea.

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Utrecht University’s department of veterinary medicine has launched a research project on the susceptibility of cats to the Coronavirus. The research will focus on the cats of healthcare workers who have tested positive for Covid-19.

Researcher Els Broens told Dutch public broadcaster NOS radio that she did not necessarily believe that cats contributed to the spread of the virus. “Transmission between humans is most important, and cats play a negligible role,” she said in an interview this week.

The research is being carried on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture Carola Schouten who wants to know if a sick person can infect a cat, or if the virus spreads from cat to cat, according to NOS. Schouten has also commissioned research into transmission of the virus in pigs.

On Sunday the ministry confirmed that Covid-19 had been found in mink at two separate fur farms in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant.

The breeders diagnosed the Coronavirus in several animals, repored Minister Schouten. The animals had gastrointestinal complaints and breathing problems. The ministry has assumed human to animal contamination, because some employees of the companies in Beek en Donk and Milheeze showed symptoms of the virus.

The NOS has since been inundated with calls from concerned citizens with more than 10 000 queries about whether the Coronavirus can be contracted through contact with cats.

Citizens also wanted to know if is spread through the air and if homemade mouth masks protect against Covid-19.

There are currently no facial masks available for hairdressers and other contact professions in the Netherlands. Health Minister Maarten Van Rijn said: “For the time being, all attention is needed for healthcare, because all healthcare employees must be able to work in a protected manner.”

He added that “we don’t have that luxury for the time being” of distributing more masks.

“We have procurement, reuse and production in our own country. […] We may be able to help with the acute shortages, but we are not there yet.” PVV leader Geert Wilders blamed the minister’s health cuts for the shortages.

It is expected that the cabinet will decide not to relax confinement measures. Hairdressers, among others, will not be able to work for the time being.

The public health institute RIVM meanwhile said the chance of being infected by a pet is very small, but those who show symptoms should not cuddle their pets or be licked by them. They should also ask someone else to take their dogs for a walk, the RIVM suggested.

There have been some reported cases of Coronavirus infection in animals, including a tiger in New York and two cats in Hong Kong. The virus was also found in a sick cat in Belgium.

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Yair Netanyahu, a son of the Israeli Prime Minister, called for the return of a “free, democratic and Christian” Europe in a tweet that criticized a joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority Arab memorial ceremony for Israel’s Memorial Day.

Netanyahu’s post on Tuesday, Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) in Israel, was in response to a tweet from the European Union (EU) delegation to the State of Israel, @EUinIsrael, noting its participation in the ceremony sponsored by Combatants for Peace and Parents Circle, this year on Zoom, which included a record 200,000 participants.

“Shame on you for financing a disgrace in the holiest day of the Israeli calendar!” Yair Netanyahu said. “We have one day in a year to remember our fallen soldiers! And you destroy it with a ‘memorial’ to Palestinian terrorists! EU is an enemy of Israel, and an enemy to all European Christian countries! Schengen zone is dead and soon your evil globalist organization will be too, and Europe will return to be free, democratic and Christian!”

The Schengen zone comprises 26 European states that have officially abolished all passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders, and includes Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland.

Netanyahu, who lives with his parents in the official Prime Minister’s residence and receives personal security, has stirred controversy with previous posts on social media.

Last week he tweeted an apparent death threat against “old people” protesting the establishment of a national unity government, which will be led for 18 months by his father, Binyamin Netanyahu, saying he hopes the gathering spread coronavirus to the left-wing demonstrators. He later deleted the post and the Prime Minister distanced himself from his son’s comment.

In 2018, Facebook blocked his account after he shared content banned by the platform that called for avenging the deaths of Israelis killed in recent days by Palestinian terrorists.

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In Hanau yesterday, young men “with full beards” attacked passers-by with knives, four of the victims were taken to the emergency room during the night. Two suspects have already been arrested.

Last night, the Hanau police reported: After four people with injuries, including stab wounds, were committed to the emergency room of the Hanau hospital shortly after each other at about 10 pm, the police are currently searching for several men. The police helicopter was also used in the search. According to initial findings, the passers-by were travelling independently in the areas Leimenstraße/Langstraße, Hirschstraße and at Freiheitsplatz. When they each encountered a group of five to seven unidentified persons and were attacked. Almost all of the perpetrators are said to have full beards. One is about 20 years old, 6’2″ tall and muscular. He has dark blond hair and wore short trousers. The injured four men are aged 17, 23 (2x) and 26 years. According to current knowledge, none of them is in mortal danger. The Hanau public prosecutor’s office has taken over the investigation. This morning, the police reported: “After four people with injuries, including stab wounds, had been admitted to the hospital in Hanau last night, the police provisionally arrested two suspects following a witness statement. The two Hanau residents, aged 23 and 29, are currently in custody. The Hanau public prosecutor’s office and the Hanau criminal police have taken over further investigations”.

According to information from the Bild newspaper, the two ” Hanau residents” who were arrested are Syrian. The victims are also said to have a migration background. Were the perpetrators a kind of “Sharia police”, who watched over the observance of Ramadan in Hanau?

According to Focus, the public prosecutor’s office has now confirmed that the men arrested are Syrian. And further: “No information is available yet on the background of the crime, the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office explains further. “At the present time, we have no indication whatsoever that the attacks have a political or xenophobic background,” says Mies. Mies has not yet been able to confirm reports that the attacks were preceded by an argument in a Turkish snack bar in downtown Hanau.

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Making the rounds on Turkish media are the comments an Afghan migrant recently made: “We love Turkey very much. We do not love Greece at all.”

Fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But the question then is why did the migrant leave Turkey to try and enter Greece?

The first and expected reaction would be because he wants to eventually reach another European country like Germany, the United Kingdom or Sweden and not stay in Greece.

But then the question becomes- why did he not try and enter Europe from Bulgaria instead?

Well that is because in early March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reassured Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov that no illegal migrants will be sent to his country, thus proving that the unleash of tens of thousands illegal immigrants on Greece’s border in February and March was nothing more than an asymmetric invasion attempt by Turkey.

The illegal Afghan migrant identified himself as Ali Muhammad and said he had no love for Greece despite desperately trying to enter illegally.

“Greece is not good, but Turkey is very beautiful. They beat us. They took our things. They took our shoes. You see, my friend’s feet are very bad,” he said.

Of course though, in another article published by Greek City Times, the lies of Turkish media and the illegal immigrants were debunked.

“We walked here from the Evros River. Now we will walk to Istanbul from here. They did not take us to Greece. We love Turkey. We do not like Greece at all,” he said.

Although Turkey funded, transported and and encouraged illegal immigrants to enter Greece, it appears many of them have not realised that they have just been used as a Turkish chess piece against Greece – which utterly failed.

Despite coronavirus crippling Turkey with over 112,000 cases and 2,900 deaths according to the latest figures, with those disputing the official figures being arrested, Turkey has not abated its aggression against Greece.

Turkey continues to violate Greek airspace on a daily basis, publish provocative news that Greece’s islands belong to Turkey and sends illegal immigrants.

greekcitytimes.com/2020/04/28/afghan-migrant-we-love-turkey-very-much-we-do-not-love-greece-at-all/