Category: Corona

Because of special burdens in the corona crisis, nurses in hospitals are now to receive a bonus of up to 1,000 euros – just like those already employed in geriatric care.

The statutory health insurances (GKV) will provide 100 million euros to pay one-time premiums for up to 100.000 clinic employees to be paid. This was announced by the GKV-spitzenverband and the german hospital association. Federal health minister jens spahn (CDU) buried the plan and wants to implement it. The trade union verdi, on the other hand, criticized it as a "minimal solution".

The german handball federation (DHB) has clarified the situation one day before christmas eve and given national coach alfred gislason a contract until the summer of 2024.

The 62-year-old islander, whose contract expired in february, is expected to lead the national team not only at the upcoming european championships (13. Until 30. The team will not only lead the team in hungary and slovakia on january 2022, but also in the 2023 world cup in poland and sweden, as well as in the major events of 2024: the european home championships and the olympic games in paris the following summer.

The crisis year 2020 has ended for the operators of the capital city airport BER with a loss of billions of euros.

Because hardly anyone has flown for more than a year, the value of the airport buildings completed in october had to be adjusted downward by 767 million euros, said airport CEO engelbert lutke daldrup after a supervisory board meeting. He informed the committee that the company’s total loss last year was around 1.06 billion euros.

The national go-it-alones with corona-related travel restrictions should soon come to an end according to the will of the EU commission. The brussels authorities announced to present in the next days a concrete proposal for a better coordination of the falling mabnahmen.

Part of the vote could be to develop common criteria for assessing the corona risk situation. In addition, there are plans to standardize the rules for travel to risk areas. Up to now, for example, there have been very different testing and quarantine requirements for people returning to the country.