Car market Used car prices are rising rapidly

Status: 22.06.2021 2:17 p.m.

Because of the often long delivery times for new cars, the market for used cars is booming – also on the Internet. But consumers should pay attention to a few things, especially when buying online.

From Till Bücker, tagesschau.de

Buy or sell a used car from the comfort of your own home with one click: The online market for used cars is becoming increasingly popular. So it is not surprising that the Berlin trading platform Auto1 has risen to the MDAX. The company, which was founded in 2012, was only launched in early February dared to go public – with success. Because with 1.8 billion euros it was the largest IPO in Germany after almost one and a half years. The Auto1 Group claims to be Europe’s largest digital automotive platform with more than 450,000 cars sold last year. The company buys vehicles from private customers via wirkaufendeinauto.de as well as from dealers. These are then primarily passed on to other car dealers via auto1.com. But consumers have also been able to purchase new used vehicles through the Autohero brand since 2017. The private business is to be massively expanded with the fresh money from investors.

Semiconductor shortages delay deliveries

That could be worth it. Because according to calculations by the Metzler bank, the European market for used cars reaches around 600 billion euros. 2020 was due to long delivery times and falling demand for new cars during the Corona crisis a real boom . In July alone, according to figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority, there were almost 750,000 car ownership transfers – more than ever before in a month and almost 100,000 more than in July 2019. This year, too, the transfers are well above the previous year’s figures.

The high demand is also reflected in the price development: During the prices for used e-cars have recently plummeted , the asking prices for used cars reached a new record high in May with an average of around 22,600 euros per vehicle. The buyers paid almost 200 euros more than in April and even around 2200 euros more than in May 2020, according to data from the online portal AutoScout24. Experts expect an increase as the semiconductor shortage is delaying the delivery of new cars worldwide and the supply of used cars is falling.

Platform growth opportunities

So far, however, only one percent of used cars have been sold online. “The used car market in Europe is still one of the last markets that go almost exclusively through brick-and-mortar retail,” said Tom Diedrich from the Metzler bank Deutschlandfunk . Therefore, there are still great growth opportunities for online platforms.

A first trend seems to be emerging. “We are seeing a real boom,” said Stefan Schneck, sales manager for the German market at AutoScout24. For example, the number of contacts made by potentially interested parties shot up by 40 percent at times in May. According to a current AutoScout24 survey of more than 1000 users, car fans see a good alternative to buying completely online: almost one in two (47 percent) would “definitely” or “maybe” order their car from the sofa. A year ago, only 35 percent of those surveyed were ready to do this.

Extreme bargains should make you suspicious

Buying a used car on the Internet has the advantage that interested parties can quickly and easily fall back on a huge range. A contract can be concluded at the push of a button, and the car is delivered to your doorstep. But regardless of whether it is on digital platforms such as Auto1 or via an exchange such as AutoScout24 or mobile.de, on which dealers or private individuals sell their vehicles directly: Consumers should pay attention to a few things when buying a used car.

First the price. For used cars, this depends on the model, year of construction, equipment, kilometers driven, wear and tear, extras and preferences. But how can a fair offer be recognized? “If you watch the market for your desired vehicle for a week or two, you get a very good feeling for a reasonable price,” explains Silvia Schattenkirchner, Head of Consumer Law at ADAC. Some exchanges such as mobile.de are now also giving ratings for offers from private individuals. Consumers should generally be cautious about extreme bargains. In addition, there is possible manipulation of the mileage. According to ADAC estimates, the so-called odometer has changed in every third used car. Verification is not easy. “It is best to have the mileage guaranteed,” advises Schattenkirchner. Otherwise, consumers could have repair invoices or TÜV certificates shown. Even comparing the kilometers driven with the year of construction is already informative in some cases.

Test drives essential

The expert considers test drives to be particularly important. “Buying a pig in a poke without a test drive, especially when it comes to used cars, is a big risk.” Only then should a contract be concluded. Schattenkirchner also advises against high down payments or other advance payments as well as purchases from abroad. In addition, consumers should be aware that contracts concluded online are also binding – for example by email. There are numerous scams on the Internet. The most common problems are listed on the website of the initiative “Safe car purchase on the Internet” from ADAC and the police crime prevention.

It is also not always easy for sellers of used cars. Platforms often promise higher prices than are ultimately paid. In order to find out how much one’s own car is still worth, the lawyer Schattenkirchner has two tips ready: “On the one hand, sellers can search for their own car and comparable offers. The other option are ADAC test centers.” Most of the time, only the initiation of business deals takes place on the Internet. “With mobile.de or AutoScout24 it is usually still the case that both parties are mediated,” said Schattenkirchner. The contract will still be concluded outside of the Internet. It remains to be seen whether the newcomer Auto1 will bring about long-term change

Increasing number of passengers The US airlines lack pilots

As of: 22.06.2021 10:05 a.m.

The number of air travelers in the US is rapidly increasing again. In the meantime, the remaining pilots at some airlines are no longer sufficient to carry out all the planned flights.

By Torsten Teichmann, ARD studio Washington

The US airline Delta is looking for staff again. 1000 pilots are to be hired in the coming months. A year ago, in the middle of the corona pandemic and with constantly falling passenger numbers, the airline threatened to fire 1,700 pilots. In the end, the airline forced the unions to accept indirect wage cuts. Now Delta could even have to pay more for new employees in order to find staff again.

American Airlines is canceling flights as a precaution

American Airlines has similar problems. Especially on weekends, the number of pilots who have already been trained and tested is apparently not enough. In the event of delays and bad weather, flights are canceled because pilots would otherwise exceed their working hours and there is no one who can take over the shift. Now American canceled almost 1,000 flights for July as a precaution. The staffing level is so tight that the airline has been overwhelmed by rising demand and its own ambitious plans. The Wall Street Journal reports that there is also a frequent lack of ground crews to refuel aircraft.

Vacation trips partly at pre-crisis level

The number of vacationers in the US could return to pre-pandemic levels this month for some airlines. Delta expects the restrictions on transatlantic traffic to fall in the second half of the year. So far, travelers from Schengen countries such as Germany are still banned from entering the USA. US President Joe Biden has not yet announced that he will change anything

More and more electric cars Boom for Battery manufacturer

Status: 06/17/2021 10:13 a.m.

The growing number of e-cars on the streets is causing the battery market to grow strongly. One EU country in particular can catch up significantly with its Asian competition.

From Oliver Feldforth, MR

For years it was talked about, now the boom in electric mobility really seems to be there. Electric cars are very popular at a leading Frankfurt dealership. One seller says that what is delivered to him can also be easily sold.

The electric cars have contributed to the fact that the corona pandemic could not harm the battery market in Germany. Last year there was an increase of 35 percent. “Above all, the volume of the market for lithium-ion batteries has increased enormously,” says Christian Eckert from the Central Association of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Industry ZVEI. Overall, this segment grew by 63 percent. And that is mainly due to electromobility.

The recycling rate should increase

A battery is only as green as the material and the electricity used to make it. Even the electric car is only as green as the electricity with which it is charged. When it comes to battery recycling, German industry is on the right track, said Christian Rosenkranz, Chairman of the ZVEI Batteries Association. The recycling rate for classic batteries is 80 to 90 percent, while it looks worse for lithium-ion batteries, which are in increasing demand. The industry wants to achieve a rate of 65 percent in four years.

Environmentalists see a need for action. “It is not only in Germany that we have to set high social and ecological standards for the production of batteries,” says Benjamin Stephan from Greenpeace. “The car manufacturers are responsible for this, but politics must set clear rules for all companies.”

Poland leads the way in Europe

Germany imports batteries. The manufacturers from Europe overtook the Asian competition for the first time last year. In Europe, Poland is the leading producer, in Asia it is China, according to Christian Eckert from the ZVEI.

And electromobility will continue to grow. Volkswagen sees it that way too. The car manufacturer plans to set up six battery cell plants of its own in the next few years. According to Ralf Brandstätter, head of the Volkswagen brand, by 2030 at least 70 percent of all new Volkswagens in Europe should be electric vehicles, in North America and China more than half.

Solid-state batteries as the technology of the future

The decision as to which drive for cars comes after the classic combustion engine seems to have been decided for the time being. “The battery-electric drive is the most efficient and significantly more economical than fuel cells and combustion engines,” said Benjamin Stephan from Greenpeace. “With the same amount of renewable electricity, a car with a fuel cell can only go half as far as a battery-electric one.”

In the case of car batteries, solid-state batteries are to replace lithium-ion technology. It does not require cobalt, which under questionable circumstances is mainly extracted in Africa. For environmentalists, electromobility is only part of the necessary turnaround in traffic. And so Greenpeace is also calling for a change in mobility towards an intelligent transport system in which bicycles, buses and trains play a bigger role

Online competition is growing Fashion retail in upheaval

Status: 16.06.2021 7:16 p.m.

The sale of fashion on the Internet is booming: The Otto subsidiary About You, which launched successfully on the stock exchange today, is growing rapidly. Stationary fashion retailers, on the other hand, are increasingly disappearing. Do you still have a future? The former glamor of the fashion industry has long since vanished in German city centers. There is bare existential fear. Many fashion retailers feel they have been stripped down to the last shirt. In the corona pandemic, textile retailers and manufacturers had to give up in a row. Well-known names such as Escada, Hallhuber, Bonita, Appelrath Cüpper and Adler-Modemärkte filed for bankruptcy. More fashion retailers will soon follow, predict the credit insurer Euler Hermes and the textile trade association (BTE). Euler Hermes does not expect a return to pre-crisis levels until 2023.

“Home office and suit don’t go together”

During the lockdown, new clothes were hardly in demand. Who needs an expensive new outfit for work at home? “Home office and suit don’t go together,” says Gerd Oliver Seidensticker, President of German Fashion.

The turnover in the fashion industry shrank in the Corona year by more than 20 percent to around twelve billion euros. “The pandemic has plunged the fashion industry into a deep crisis,” complains German fashion boss Seidensticker. “Many of our companies are dependent on help from the state.”

Structural crisis even before Corona

But even before the pandemic, the stationary fashion houses were under pressure. Corona has accelerated the structural crisis in the industry. Sales in stationary retail have been declining for years. The death of fashion retailers began a long time ago. Between 2010 and 2019, the number of companies in the clothing industry fell by 31 percent, according to a study by the management consultancy PwC. Retail expert Gerrit Heinemann, retail expert at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, speaks up tagesschau.de of a “collective restructuring case”.

The increasing low-cost competition from textile discounters such as Primark and the triumphant advance of online retail have long been troubling the classic fashion industry. Online retailers such as Zalando and About You are flourishing. Only H&M and Zara have successfully resisted the online competition and also held their own in the Corona crisis.

More and more mono labels

There is also a trend towards mono labels. More and more fashion manufacturers such as Hugo Boss or the sporting goods supplier Adidas are setting up their own flagship stores and selling their products there – to the chagrin of classic fashion retailers who traditionally follow the multi-label approach.

The end of the multi-month lockdown and the return of walk-in customers in the cities should give the stationary fashion retail some breathing space again in the short term. In the long run, however, the industry has to reinvent itself, demand experts. Only those who meet the needs of customers with innovative concepts will survive, says PwC retail expert Stefan Schwertel.

Regional or sustainable concepts as a way out?

Heinemann sees the Mannheim fashion retailer Engelhorn as a positive example. The company has focused on a regional market and now sells a good half of its clothing over the Internet.

Other fashion retailers focus on niches such as sustainability. Some also flee into the arms of their biggest competitor, Zalando. A good 2,400 stationary fashion retailers now also sell their clothing via the Zalando “Connected Retail” platform.

Model H&M and Zara

Above all, however, Zalando is using that and is not enough to save the stationary business permanently, complain experts like Gerrit Heinemann from the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. “This is a one-way street.” In his opinion, stationary fashion retailers should primarily operate on demand in the future – following the example of H&M and Zara. In fact, C&A is currently starting to produce jeans “on demand” at the Mönchengladbach location in Germany.

The traditional fashion house Köhler from Hessen is breaking new ground. It offers fashion advice and sales via video. The customer fills out a questionnaire on the Internet before receiving a video consultation. During the video call, the customer then decides what he wants to have delivered to his home. The concept is particularly worthwhile with regular customers, says Paula Vordemfelde, managing director of Köhler. Her motto: “We have to be creative and be able to react quickly.”

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The banks of the Ganges River in the city of Garhmukteshwar, Uttar Pradesh state (India’s most populous state) became a place to cremate the bodies of people who died of COVID-19. Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES The epidemic is spreading rapidly to the countryside After four consecutive days of recording the number of infections above 400,000 / day, the last two days the number of daily infections in India has fallen below this level. Many government health officials and experts predict this second wave of epidemics in India will peak around the end of this week. However, it seems that the epidemic crisis in India is moving to a more dangerous new phase. The danger is that the virus is now spreading rapidly to rural areas, according to the CIDRAP Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. In the article in the newspaper New York Times Journalist Jeffrey Gettleman, head of this newspaper’s office in the capital New Delhi, also said that the infection and death from COVID-19 that broke out in big cities a few weeks ago is now spreading very quickly to rural areas. village. New Delhi recorded nearly 12,500 infections on May 11, less than half of the number recorded on April 30. Hospitals in New Delhi are now accepting patients again, after having to stop accepting them because of overcrowding last month, leaving infected people to die on the streets. Mumbai also recorded the same. The danger is that the number of infections in New Delhi and Mumbai will probably stop increasing and decrease gradually, but in many other places will increase. In other words, the situation of New Delhi a few weeks ago now extends to almost the entire country. Some of the worst-affected states are in the south, especially Karnataka. I cannot imagine what would happen in rural India. Expert RIJO M. JOHN worried about the prospect of the COVID-19 epidemic overflowing into the countryside How will it be? This fact raises a terrifying question: If New Delhi, a rich metropolis with dozens of hospitals, is unable to handle the current wave of high cases, what will happen once this wave spreads to the country? poor rural areas? The answer seems to be gradually becoming clear. On the evening of May 10, a leading hospital in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh ran out of medical oxygen. More than 60 critically ill patients wear breathing tubes but no oxygen. The doctors worked frantically, but 11 patients did not survive that night. In a distraught over the loss of a loved one, family members stormed into the hospital and smashed it. Doctors and nurses had to flee until the police arrived. It can be clearly seen that the hospital overload, lack of oxygen, medicine … very serious even in large urban areas will be more alarming in rural states, according to the radio. CNN . Chogath farming village in the western state of Gujarat has a population of 7,400, but there are 500-600 infections, the number of people who have not survived is very high because the whole village does not have a doctor. Nearby towns have several medical centers, but these small facilities have run out of beds and medical facilities. Dinesh Makwana drove his father, who was severely infected with COVID-19, through four medical centers in neighboring towns, but had to return home, because these centers had run out of beds. Usually about 30 people die in this village every year, but in the past month alone, villagers have had to cremate 90 bodies, according to Mr. Girjashankar. Many families have lost a lot of loved ones to COVID-19. Girjashankar, 70, still volunteered to go up the hill to cut firewood to help cremate the dead. Many southern states such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu have made it clear that they will not share the medical oxygen they have with each other, having to keep it to serve hospitals that are overloaded because the number of patients is growing too fast in their states. Medical aid goods from other countries have started pouring into India since the end of April, but it is still not enough compared to the reality of the shortage in this country. Currently, in addition to urban areas suffering from severe epidemics, Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s government also spends some oxygen and medicine to urgently distribute to the states. However, with this little common ground, remote and isolated localities such as Chogath village (Gujarat state) still have to rely on their own strength.• Drop the body Ganges River because there is no money for cremation Newspaper Indian Express On May 10, Indians discovered more than 40 bodies washed up on the banks of the Ganges River near Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states in the north. Some news channels say that the number of bodies floating in the Ganges must be in the hundreds. In India, there is a custom that when a family member dies, the relatives will tie a stone to the body and drop it into the Ganges River – a sacred river for Hindus. However, many officials and locals believe that these bodies are those who died from COVID-19. Many bodies were partially burned and locals explained that the bodies were not cremated or cremated incompletely due to a severe shortage of firewood. 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Illustration – Photo: Reuters. In a status line (tweet) on the social network Twitter on May 12, Tesla CEO (CEO) Elon Musk suddenly announced that this electric car company stopped accepting Bitcoin as a means of payment when customers buy a car. . This statement by Mr. Musk – who has expressed a pro-crypto stance – shocked investors and caused a sell-off. The reason the world’s second-richest billionaire gave for the reversal is the risks that virtual currencies pose to the global environment. Bitcoin price immediately dropped after Mr. Musk’s tweet was posted. At more than 7:00 am on May 13, Vietnam time, Bitcoin price according to data on Coinmarketcap.com page slipped below $ 50,000, down more than 13% compared to the time 24 hours ago. Many other “hot” virtual currencies also dropped sharply, such as Ethereum down more than 6%, Dogecoin sliding 14%… In February, Musk revealed that Tesla had poured $1.5 billion into Bitcoin and said the company would soon accept Bitcoin as a means of payment when customers buy a car. That information immediately pushed the Bitcoin price up 20%. By March, he said Tesla customers were able to pay with Bitcoin. In a tweet on May 12, Musk said Tesla will not sell a single Bitcoin, but instead intends to use Bitcoin for transactions as soon as Bitcoin mining moves to using other energy sources. more sustainable quantity. “We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use less than 1% of electricity like Bitcoin,” Musk wrote. Bitcoins are “mined” by competing high-performance computers solving complex math problems, and the process consumes enormous amounts of power. The source of electricity for Bitcoin mining is usually thermal power, especially coal-fired power plants, posing a great concern about environmental pollution. At current rates, Bitcoin mining pools used as much energy as the entire Netherlands in 2019, according to data from the University of Cambridge and the International Energy Agency (IEA). Musk himself is a supporter of virtual currencies, and his statements often cause cryptocurrency prices to fluctuate wildly. However, he is also an advocate of clean technology. “Cryptocurrency is a good idea in many ways, and we believe it has a promising future. But that can’t come with a huge loss to the environment,” Musk said. Bitcoin price movement in the last 7 days – Source: Trading View. According to blockchain analysis companies, Bitcoin could in theory be traceable, raising the possibility of “green” Bitcoins having a higher price tag. Stronger climate change policies by countries around the world can also help in this. However, some Bitcoin advocates say that the current financial system – with millions of employees and computers in air-conditioned offices – also uses an overwhelming amount of electricity.

Plums at the beginning of the season Moc Chau (Son La) are sold at markets in Hanoi at the price of 100,000 – 150,000 VND / kg. Early season plums from Moc Chau (Son La) in recent days are being displayed for sale at many local markets in Hanoi or on online markets, groups specializing in selling fruit. Surveys at some markets such as Dai Tu (Hoang Mai), Nam Trung Yen market (Cau Giay) or some toad markets, kiosks around densely populated areas in Linh Dam, Trung Hoa … show that plum cherries are is sold at a price of 100,000 – 150,000 VND / kg, depending on the size. Ms. Thu Huong – owner of a kiosk specializing in selling fruits in Linh Dam area, said that she is currently selling plum plums for 120,000 VND / kg, this price of Ms. Huong is “softer” than the shops. another because she has a row in the garden. According to Ms. Huong, unlike the off-season plums, the plum at the beginning of the season only has a sour taste, not acrid; even the old, about to ripen fruit has a slightly sweet taste. “Early season plum is the early plum of the first batch of flowers. Each time I set up a garden house on Moc Chau, it takes a few days for the gardener to deliver the goods, each trip about a few quintals. Plums come on the right time, so they are quite expensive, in less than 2 days I have sold all 50kg of plums ”, Ms. Huong said. Having just sold out 20kg of plums in the morning, Ms. Nguyen Duong who sells online in Thanh Tri district continues to gather customer orders to sell new trips. Accordingly, the first plum bought by Ms. Duong sold for 100,000 VND / kg of plum and the price of 50,000 VND / kg of rice plum. Ms. Duong said that fruit at the beginning of the season is usually more expensive than the main season. However, this year the price of plum is cheaper than the beginning of last year, from 20,000 to 30,000 VND / kg. Normally, Ms. Duong will gather the application first and then put it on the garden and hand it over to her customers.

Sister Wei’s real name is Zhang Wei. At the beginning, making short videos was just her hobby. She accidentally shot a video about cartoon mats. The explosion of this video made her 50,000 followers overnight. She has a keen sense of the Internet. When it came to the business opportunities of home textile products, the road of fast-hand live broadcast of goods began. Different from consumables, home textile products have a high customer unit price, but Zhang Wei did not give up quality in pursuit of high profits. In order to ensure the quality of the products, she set up a home textile factory, which was in short supply, and cooperated with a group of designers to buy the design in her own factory. “Only do well, even if the profit is lower.” It is Zhang Wei’s consistent insistence to use products to speak. High quality brings continuous word-of-mouth conversion. More and more repeat customers introduce relatives and friends to Wei Jie’s home textile live broadcast room. The best portrayal of the “trust economy” of Kuaishou platform. Now Zhang Wei’s factory has a stable daily shipment volume of about 20,000 orders. When the sales volume of the fast-handed shop is good, it can reach 50% of the factory’s shipment volume. The average sales volume per shipment is 500,000 yuan, and the peak sales volume has reached more than two. More than one million. It starts at 8 o’clock every night, and at least six times a week. Taking into account the older consumer groups who wake up early, Zhang Wei has added a live broadcast time from 6:00 to 10:00 in the morning. The fast pace at the end of the day is comparable to that of an Internet company. To work. In order to make the delivery of goods more stable, Zhang Wei also formed a live broadcast team of more than a dozen people, and constantly explored a more professional live delivery model. Xiaodiantong helps break through the bottleneck of increasing fans and drive ultra-high conversion “Compared with other fast-moving products, home textile products need more professional explanations, because they need to introduce fabrics, textile techniques, printing, etc., lack of language accumulation and insufficient understanding of the product, will lead to overlapping words.” Start to try live broadcast Zhang Wei, who was carrying the goods, was very nervous when facing the camera, feeling like standing in the field selling cabbage. Due to her face and the mentality of not wanting to be read jokes by others, she even blocked all her relatives and friends. After a period of training, Zhang Wei has a good grasp of hundreds of home textile products of his own. Just look at it and immediately know how to organize words. Talking about the fabric craftsmanship, where are the advantages of the product, and how to place orders on Kuaishou compared to other platforms. What are the advantages…she can talk about it. Zhang Wei, who has built self-confidence, no longer fears the eyes of others: “It is the uncle who can make money now, regardless of whether you sell cabbage or what.” With an in-depth understanding of the product, Zhang Wei’s requirements for the quality of his short videos are getting higher and higher, but this kind of high-quality videos did not bring high conversions, and the growth of fans once encountered a bottleneck, and Zhang Wei fell into confusion. At this time, she started to launch Kuaishou Xiaodiantong, and got the help of the official team-customized video ideas for the target audience, accurately delivered to the target users, and adjusted the delivery time and quantity in real time. Zhang Wei also explored the rules for creating the explosive video: grounding. At the same time, Kuaishou vermicelli was launched to promote high-quality products, Amway’s short video, and two-pronged approach to capture all kinds of user traffic. With the cooperation of Zhang Wei and the official team, the bottleneck of increasing fans has been broken. Now the number of fans of Weijie Home Textiles account has exceeded 600,000. The staff also lamented that the entire home textile industry does not have an account with such a high conversion rate as Weijie. Zhang Wei is very grateful: “Xiaodiantong has allowed some businesses with hundreds of thousands of fans like ours to grow rapidly, so that users on the platform will have more diversified choices, and those who buy from the old iron can rest assured that they will continue to put on Xiaodiantong in the future. Vermicelli.” Unswervingly take root and write a heart-warming story “There is no source of income. It is uncomfortable to reach out and ask for money from my husband. I have a stable income so that I can be hard at home.” I have run a beauty salon, sold cosmetics, and been a baby for 3 years after giving birth. The full-time mother, although family conditions are good, Zhang Wei did not choose to stay at ease all the time. When Zhang Wei first started live broadcasting, his family members strongly opposed it. It was when the children needed the company of their mothers, there was no need to take care of both the children and the live broadcasting. But the family’s negative attitude did not hinder her, “There is no way to disagree, I have been like this since I was a child, and I must do what I look for.” With the stubbornness in his bones, Zhang Wei has moved from the beauty industry to the home textile industry, from Dalian. I went to Jiangsu and started my own live streaming business. After his career stabilized, Zhang Wei took his parents and children to Jiangsu. Seeing that Zhang Wei had done a good job of delivering live broadcasts, his family no longer objected. With his family at his side, stable income, and realizing his own value, Zhang Wei’s only guilt at the moment is that he has no time to spend more time with his children. “Sometimes when I broadcast, he is already asleep. If I cough, he will get up and help me put the quilt on.” Mentioning his son Zhang Wei was both distressed and happy. There is an agreement between Zhang Wei and his son to grow up together. The son tells her, mother you work hard, and I work hard too. When I grow up and I make money, you don’t live broadcast, you can accompany me every day. Zhang Wei said silently in his heart: “Do it now, you have to do it for him too.” This kind of heart-warming story also happened between Zhang Wei and her fans. Zhang Wei’s first customer still patronizes her live broadcast room until now, just like a friend who has known her for many years, witnessing her growth along the way; during the live broadcast, fans will swipe her screen to urge her to drink water and ask her to soak her feet during the broadcast. Properly turned the live broadcast room into a warm place like home. What moved Zhang Wei the most was a small hand-embroidered purse sent by a fan in Inner Mongolia during the Dragon Boat Festival. The name of sister Wei and each employee was embroidered on it. Each person has a different color and different shape. The heart touched her extremely. In exchange for sincerity, Zhang Wei will also remember the birthdays of fans and give them gifts, “Doing business in Kuaishou is not only about making friends or making friends.” Occasionally encountering peers who are looking for faults, Zhang Wei will give the right to speak to the fans in the live broadcast room and let them compare themselves. Of course, high-quality products and sincere communication are exchanged for the old irons’ firm choice. Zhang Wei also took care of her employees as best as she could, “They treat my live broadcast room as their own home and treat me as a sister, so I can’t treat them badly.” Whenever an employee has financial difficulties, she always The first one to lend a helping hand. In winter, Zhang Wei will also send warmth to the widows and lonely old people. Perhaps this is the best interpretation of “Da Ze and help the world”. Zhang Wei said that the help of the Kuaishou team and the support of fans in the live broadcast room made her have no plans to expand to multiple platforms. “It’s hard to do it in Kuaishou. I don’t have so much energy to operate other platforms. We are not like a big brand that can do more accounts, just like raising our own children. It’s really a lot of hard work, so I think Do this number sincerely.” The high recognition of the Kuaishou platform culture and Kuaishou Xiaodiantong gave Zhang Wei more confidence in making Kuaishou live broadcast. Sister Wei wants to tell the merchants who are also working hard in Kuaishou: Since you have chosen Kuaishou, you must trust the platform and also believe that your own products are excellent. Coupled with the addition of the platform, business will always become more and more prosperous.

The Japanese wear a Covid-19 fashion mask. Photo: Japan Times.

Minister of Health and Labor Tamura Norihisha in today’s press conference when it comes to Japan’s implementation of the Covid-19 translation of emergency, said, will first consult with experts. and the government will make the final decision.

The expert said that in case strong measures to prevent the spread of infection are not effective, the declaration of a return of emergency should also be taken into account. The Minister of Health and Labor affirmed that before it comes back to declaring a state of emergency, what needs to be done is extremely important.

Meanwhile, Economic Reconstruction Minister Nishimura cum in charge of epidemic prevention said that he had reported to the House of Representatives on the situation of the new virus infection in Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Aichi provinces … and measures. strengthen prevention of the spread especially before there is a possibility of re-declaring emergencies in these areas. These are the provinces and cities where the rate of new virus from the UK and South Africa has increased rapidly despite high warning levels.

Accordingly, this measure will not only include an average assessment of the infection rate among young people, the number of cases, but also pay attention to the participation of the people. Specifically urged people to limit traveling to other provinces when they are not needed, even during long holidays from the end of April to the beginning of May, not neglecting the strict implementation of measures to prevent infection in Vietnam. restaurants and bars.

Since Japan abolished its second emergency in early March, the number of new infections has continuously increased. Some prefectures such as Osaka, Aichi, Hyogo … the number of infected cases skyrocketed, some even surpassed Tokyo, which has always had the highest number of new infections since the outbreak of the new virus.

Yesterday (April 15), Japan recorded 4576 new cases, of which serious infections also increased.

The Covid-19 vaccination operation is still underway. Expected early next May, objects are the elderly and foreigners will be vaccinated. Currently, Japan is still actively promoting connections with international pharmaceutical firms to buy more vaccines. Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is visiting Japan and is expected to have a phone call with the owner of the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer to increase vaccine imports in the near future.

Meanwhile, according to a report by the Ministry of Health of Thailand, today (April 16) this country recorded nearly 1,600 new cases of Covid-19. This is the highest number of cases per day since the outbreak of the pandemic, in the context that the Southeast Asian country is facing the third wave of infections of the Covid-19 epidemic.

According to Thai officials, the country currently has no new deaths, but the number of new infections has increased sharply in the past week, bringing the total number of cases to more than 39,000 cases, putting the risk of overloading the health system. Therefore, the Thai Ministry of Health yesterday (April 15) had to warn, if hospitals and clinics refuse to receive treatment for Covid-19 patients, they will be handled according to the provisions of the law.

In India, data released by the Ministry of Health today (April 16) shows that, in the past 24 hours, the number of new Covid-19 cases has increased to a record of more than 217,000 cases. This is the record increase for the 8th time in 9 days in India. The total number of cases in this country is nearly 14.3 million cases, behind the US with more than 31 million cases. In addition to the above cases, the total number of deaths caused by Covid-19 also increased by nearly 1,200 people, to more than 174,000 cases./.