Month: June 2020

First Viennese households have received gastronomy vouchers

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On Tuesday the first Viennese households received a gastronomy voucher. These can be redeemed in around 2,000 restaurants until the end of September. Nearly one million restaurant vouchers were sent to Vienna households on Tuesday. By Thursday at the latest, all 950,000 households in Vienna will have received one. The city wants to use the campaign to help the gastronomy industry get back on its feet after the “lock-down”. “We also want to express our gratitude to the people of Vienna as a sign of appreciation for the cooperation and…

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Slovenia could close the border with Croatia again

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Anyone who goes to Croatia now may have to go into quarantine on return. The dream of a holiday on the Croatian Adriatic could have been a short one: Slovenia is considering closing the border to its neighbouring country again after several cases of corona imported from there were confirmed. If the number continues to rise, “a quarantine will be implemented for everyone coming from Croatia,” Health Minister Tomaz Gantar told TV channel POP TV on Monday evening. “As soon as the number of infections in Slovenia increases and it…

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More than 9.1 million people infected with coronavirus worldwide

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More than 9.1 million people worldwide have been proven to be infected with the novel coronavirus. A total of 472,300 patients died from or with the virus, according to Reuters data based on official figures released on Tuesday. The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that far more people than known have actually infected with the virus. The USA, Brazil and Russia have the highest incidence of infection. In Russia, almost 600,000 people are now proven to be infected with the virus, the authorities in Moscow announced. Within 24 hours, 7,425…

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Unstable Corona situation in Austria

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Although the situation in Austria is still stable, a slight increase and the formation of clusters mean that the situation is not quite as relaxed at present. While record growth rates are being recorded internationally in the spread of the corona pandemic – North and South America are currently the most affected countries – Austria still has only a few hundred people affected. Nevertheless, Health Minister Rudi Anschober on Monday urges caution: “In Austria the situation is stable as it has been for weeks, but now a little more unsettled.…

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Experts continue to advocate the wearing of mask

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There were 454 active Covid-19 infections in Austria on Sunday. The virus is still present, even though there are more and more relaxations. In supermarkets the wearing of a mouth and nose protector is no longer mandatory. Several experts continued to advocate the mask in the ORF programme “Im Zentrum” on Sunday evening. It is “an effective means of containment”, but is underestimated as much as washing hands, said environmental physician Hans-Peter Hutter. Wearing the mask not only protects the “I”, but to the same extent the “we”, emphasized the…

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WHO reports record number of new corona cases

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The World Health Organization (WHO) registered 183,020 new infections with the coronavirus on Sunday. This was the highest increase ever recorded within 24 hours. 116,000 of these new cases, or 63.4 percent, were in North and South America. According to the WHO, there have so far been over 8.7 million registered infections and over 461,000 deaths worldwide. Brazil has been particularly  hit by the coronavirus. According to official corona virus-related data, the country has recorded more than one million cases and more than 50,000 deaths. According to the Ministry of…

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Lower Austria has most new corona infections

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Austria, 21. June 2020 – The number of active corona patients in Austria has increased again in the last 24 hours. Most new infections are reported by Lower Austria. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, there have been 17,341 positive test results in Austria so far. As of today (21 June 2020, 9:30 a.m.), 690 people throughout Austria have died from the consequences of the coronavirus and 16,197 have recovered. Two new deaths in Vienna Currently 69 people are undergoing hospital treatment for coronavirus and 8 of them…

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THE SITUATION IN AUSTRIA: New COVID 19 infections in eight federal states

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20 June – Saturday – 52 new infections have been registered throughout Austria in the past 24 hours. New cases were reported in eight of the nine federal provinces, only in Vorarlberg was no new infection detected in a 24-hour comparison. Most new cases were in Vienna, where there were 31. After Vienna, most new cases were in Salzburg, where six cases of Covid-19 were reported. Four were registered in Styria, three each in Burgenland, Lower Austria and Upper Austria and one each in Carinthia and Tyrol. As of 9.30…

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Asymptomatic risk of COVID 19

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▶ Even without a cough, fever and sore throat you can be infected with corona ▶ Low immunity after mild course Even if the official infection figures are falling, this does not mean that the danger of corona has minimized. According to worldwide studies, up to 50 percent of Covid-19 patients do not have any symptoms such as fever, cough or sore throat. Younger people in particular are often likely to be free of the disease. “The younger a person is, the more likely he or she is to show…

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