Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is KCRW Berlin's Program Director, reporter and show host. She is a veteran American journalist with German roots who comes to us from NPR, where she spent 13 years as a correspondent, heading the network’s international bureaus in Kabul, Cairo and more recently, Berlin. She’s won numerous awards for her radio work, including a Peabody and Gracie. She also received the ICFJ 2017 Excellence in International Reporting Award for her coverage of Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Prior to her radio career, Sarhaddi Nelson spent 20 years as a newspaper reporter and was part of the Newsday team that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for covering the crash of TWA Flight 800.
Currently, 24.5% of Berlin’s ICU beds are being used by coronavirus patients. If that number reaches or surpasses 25% again, that “traffic light” indicator will switch back to red.
Heiko Maas and his NATO counterparts are meeting to discuss proposed reforms to the alliance as well as the Afghanistan mission.
Public broadcaster rbb reports once the vaccines are approved for dissemination and arrive here, inoculations will begin.
The premiers of Germany’s 16 states are to decide jointly on the new pandemic rules before they meet on Wednesday with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The new high of daily cases is 23,648, which is 106 more cases than last week’s record-setting number.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warned more restrictions are likely coming next week because the pandemic is not slowing down enough.
While the plaintiffs argued they were not “drivers of the pandemic,” the judges decided that wasn’t something they could prove.
Jens Spahn told public broadcaster ARD that Germany’s testing capacity was reaching its limit and that only health care workers and people at high risk or showing symptoms should be tested.
On Tuesday, Germany’s disease prevention authority reported 15,352 new cases over a 24-hour period.
No one was hurt and the guard was able to put out the flames.
