A canoeist recounts a dramatic incident. The German water rescue association DLRG welcomes the directive from the city of Bonn to no longer let day care children play at the water line. Small children are at risk of drowning even in shallow waters.
After eleven weeks, the strike for a collective agreement at the six university hospitals in NRW has ended. Strikers at Bonn University Hospital (UKB) celebrated their success on Tuesday afternoon, returning to the wards and operating theatres on Wednesday. The UKB now wants to return to normal operations as quickly as possible.
The number of e-bike riders who end up in Bonn s university hospital, for example, has increased drastically in recent years. There are now programmes to stop accidents from happening.
What’s the situation in Germany right now with the Covid pandemic? One important indicator is what is happening in hospitals. The buzzword here is the hospitalization rate. This is what it means and the current situation in Bonn.
National strike in Belgian public sector against wage restraint and mass demonstration of 80,000 in Brussels; cabin crew at Ryanair, EasyJet and national carriers across Europe plan strikes over staff shortages and to reverse pay cuts during pandemic; Greek healthcare workers join national 24-hour strike over staff shortages leading to exhaustion; UK refuse collection drivers employed by scab-organising Coventry Labour council continue five-month pay strike; strikes by 1,000 outsourced cleaners working for UK train cleaning company over pay and conditions continue; 1,000 South African contract miners at North West platinum mine on indefinite strike for pay parity