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  • 24.10.2020 - Special on contact tracing
    Contact tracing. https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/thema/2020/coronavirus/beitraege_neu/2020/10/berlin-corona-kontaktpersonen-was-tun-quarantaene-isolation.html
    - RKI contact person Flow-chart: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Kontaktperson/Grafik_Kontakt_allg.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
    - RKI ZIP code tool: https://tools.rki.de/PLZTool/
    - Lageso data entry form: https://www.berlin.de/lageso/_assets/gesundheit/publikationen/corona/online_fragebogen_covid19_2020-10-19.pdf
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    8 min
  • 21.10.2020 - New regulations, Curfew controls, Academy suspensions
    - New regulations
    On these ten shopping streets, masks will be mandatory in the future:
    -- Tauentzienstrasse (Charlottenburg/Schöneberg)
    -- Kurfürstendamm (Charlottenburg/Wilmersdorf)
    -- Schloßstraße (Steglitz)
    -- Wilmersdorfer Strasse (Charlottenburg)
    -- Bergmannstraße (Kreuzberg)
    -- Karl-Marx-Strasse (Neukölln)
    -- Bölschestraße (Friedrichshagen)
    -- Alte Schönhauser Straße (Mitte
    -- Friedrichstraße (Mitte)
    -- Altstadt Spandau
    - Curfew controls
    - Academy suspensions
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    8 min
  • 19.10.2020 - Curfew court decision, East-West differentiation, Gender mainstreaming, Gun man reported
    - Curfew court decision
    - East-West differentiation
    --Sources:
    --- Mortality by age: https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-by-age
    --- US racial inequality: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html
    --- Effect on ethnic minorities in UK: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30228-9/fulltext
    --- RKI report on vacation returnees (August 2020): https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/2020-08-11-de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
    --- BMSFSFJ study on families with migration background: https://www.bmfsfj.de/blob/116880/83c02ec19dbea15014d7868048f697f2/gelebte-vielfalt--familien-mit-migrationshintergrund-in-deutschland-data.pdf
    --- IAB study on worker skills: http://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2019/kb1919.pdf
    --- Covid-19 spread in urban areas: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1104-0
    --- Report on BCG vaccinations: https://www.gelbe-liste.de/pneumologie/bcg-impfung-atemwegsinfektionen-aeltere
    - Gender mainstreaming
    - Gun man reported
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    15 min
  • 14.10.2020 - Hospital visitation ban, Freedom of assembly, U6 closure, BER operations
    - Hospital visitation bans
    The Vivantes network includes the Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum (Schöneberg), Humboldt-Klinikum (Reinickendorf), Klinikum Am Urban (Kreuzberg), Klinikum Kaulsdorf, Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Klinikum Neukölln, Klinikum Spandau, Wenckebach-Klinikum (Tempelhof) as well as the Ida-Wolff-Hospital (Neukölln).
    - Freedom of assembly
    - U6 closure
    - BER operations
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    9 min

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