IFB Hamburg has launched the EUR 300 million Hamburg Liquidity Loan (Hamburg-Kredit Liquidität) for struggling SMEs, the self-employed as well as associations and non-profit organisations that have run into liquidity problems amid the corona crisis, a press release said Thursday after applications...
Creative professionals and SMEs have until the deadline of June 4, 2020 to submit their applications for Emergency Lab #2 to be held from June 15-19, 2020 with emphasis on digitalisation. The Emergency Lab has been set up by the Cross Innovation Hub, which is part of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, to...
The Hamburg-based biometrics company Dermalog has developed a highly-accurate camera to measure body temperatures swiftly in a bid to help contain pandemics. Demand is high and the company now has clients in "nearly 50 countries", the Hamburger Abendblatt daily quoted Sven Böckler, press officer, as...
New relaxed corona measures for cultural, sport and educational sectors
Love always finds a way - even of bypassing corona rules, which are presently proving an obstacle to large events like wedding ceremonies. Anne Meier, a professional event organizer, runs several branches of her Waterkant company across Hamburg and corona has left all of them vacant for the moment. ...
The novel coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2) is not purely a respiratory virus as it attacks multiple organs including the kidneys, heart and brain, scientists at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) have concluded in a study published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a...
Scientists at the University of Hamburg's Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" and researchers at DESY have identified 13 out of 5,600 known active substances, which are suitable for an active substance against the coronavirus. The remaining active substances stem from a library...
Pharmaceutical companies and research institutes in all corners of the globe are going all-out to come up with a vaccine against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Yet, what is the nature of a vaccine? Essentially, a vaccine tricks the body into believing that it is infected with a pathogen to make...
Hamburg relaxes corona restrictions - restaurants and hotels to reopen conditionally - most measures in place
The Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation (BWVI) has set up a contact point for companies hit by the corona crisis to stabilise global supply chains. The Port of Hamburg is expecting reduced cargo handling volumes as the crisis is hampering both the production and delivery of essential...