Berlin
300 arrested from ‘anti-corona’ demo in Germany
Thousands of people have staged a demonstration in Berlin on Saturday protesting against restrictive measures placed by the government to tackle the spread of coronavirus.
School reopening amid Covid-19 pandemic: Teachers, students in 41 Berlin schools infected
At least 41 schools in Berlin have reported that students or teachers are infected with the coronavirus — not even two weeks after they reopened in the German capital.
The daily Berliner Zeitung published the numbers on Friday and the city’s senate for education confirmed them to The Associated Press.
Hundreds of students and teachers are in quarantine, the newspaper reported. Elementary schools, high schools and trade schools are all affected. There are 825 schools in Berlin.
The reopening of schools and the risk of virus clusters building up there and spreading to families and further into communities has been a matter of great concern.
Berlin was one of the first places in Germany to reopen schools after summer holidays. Children are obliged to wear masks in hallways, during breaks, and when entering the classroom, but they can take them off once they sit down.
Some critics say the measures in Berlin are too relaxed and both students and teachers should wear masks. Such is the case in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous, where some 2.5 million students went back to school a couple of days after Berlin.
Coronavirus cases in Germany have been going up again since late July, driven by returning vacationers and social events.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday there are too many different regulations in place across the country and “people simply don’t understand” why they’re allowed to do one thing in Berlin that may be banned in Bavaria.
On Friday, Germany’s disease control center registered 1,426 new cases.
Winners list of 2020 Laureus World Sports Awards
The 2020 Laureus World Sports Awarding Ceremony was hosted here on Monday night and following are the complete winners list:
WWII-era ammunition found at Tesla factory site near Berlin
Authorities in Germany say 85 kilograms (187 pounds) of World War II ammunition have been found on the site where Tesla plans to build its first European factory.
Protesters in Berlin support environment-friendly farming
Demonstrators in Berlin called for more environment-friendly agriculture practices at a protest Saturday in Berlin that included farmers with more than 150 tractors.
Tesla aims to build 500,000 vehicles per year near Berlin
Tesla plans to build half a million electric vehicles a year at its future factory outside Berlin.
East-West divide has left its mark in Berlin, 30 years on
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital — divided for decades by bricks and barbed wire — has slowly grown back together. Few visible scars remain other than those intentionally left in place to remind Berliners and tourists of the brutal border that claimed the lives of scores of East Germans trying to flee the communist country.