Brief economic corona news from January 14
FHI, Federation of Technology Industries – January 14, 2021
- The RIVM reports 6575 new positive corona tests on Thursday, 437 more than on Wednesday. Hospital occupancy shows a slight decrease.
- The fact that a bottle of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine can be used to obtain not five but six doses has no consequences for deliveries to the Netherlands. a spokesperson confirmed from the concern to NU.nl. As a result, the Netherlands will receive more vaccines than previously anticipated.
- The German economy shrank by 5 percent last year. The budget deficit also rose to 158 billion euros, or 4.8 percent of GDP. That reports the Federal Statistical OfficeIt is the sharpest decline since the 2009 financial crisis.
- The average house price rose to a record high of 365,000 euros in the fourth quarter of 2020. That writes the NVMThis represents an increase of 11.6 percent compared to 2019.
- Norwegian Airlines will stop offering cheap transatlantic flights from Europe to the US. The budget airline, forced by the corona crisis, will focus exclusively on flights within Europe. The number of aircraft will decrease from 140 to fifty, reports Bloomberg.
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