LONDON
Mums describe symptoms of ‘measles-like’ illness affecting children with coronavirus
Doctors around the world are urgently investigating the concerning reports of inflammatory symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease affecting children in countries with severe Covid-19 outbreaks, including the UK
...On Monday, doctors were issued an alert about a sharp rise of infants being admitted to intensive care with a Kawasaki-like disease in Britain and Italy. The illness is generally more common in parts of Asia.
Kawasaki disease primarily affects children under five years of age, with symptoms including a rash; swollen glands in the neck; dry, cracked lips; red fingers or toes and red eyes.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mums-describe-symptoms-measles-like-21942852
GERMANY:
Germans urged to stay at home amid fears Covid-19 infection rate is rising again
Germans have been advised to stay at home as much as possible and continue to apply physical distancing as official data appeared to indicate the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic was once again accelerating...
...Lothar Wieler, the RKI’s president, later specified that the reproduction rate for Monday was 0.96, and therefore technically still below one....
...For its own estimate of the reproduction number, the RKI attempts to take into account the time lag by ignoring data from the last three days and back-dating known cases to their likely day of infection around a week earlier.
The reproduction number announced on Tuesday can therefore only give an indication of the pandemic’s development at a point about a week and a half ago, when a relaxation of social distancing measures had been announced by Angela Merkel but not yet come into effect.