June 2020 Archives

Emirates airline resumes flights to 29 destinations

June 5, 2020 admin

DUBAI: According to ArabNews.com report on Thursday, Emirates Airline will resume its flights to 29 cities and transits through Dubai. As of June 8, travelers from Pakistan’s Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad can book connection flights from Dubai to other destinations with the airline. Flights to London’s Heathrow, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne and Manila will resume on June 11. Emirates will offer 16 additional destinations starting June 15, such as Bahrain, Manchester, Zurich, Vienna, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin, New York JFK, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Taipei, Hong…

Slovenia and Hungary open borders with Austria on Friday

June 5, 2020 admin

The opening of Austria’s borders to all neighbouring countries except Italy on Thursday has been met with almost universal approval in Slovenia and Hungary. From today, Friday, 5. June 2020 onwards, Austrians will be able to enter Slovenia and Hungary without any restrictions. The Czech Republic, in turn, announced that the borders would be opened during the night on Saturday. Hungary will open its border with Austria early on Friday morning. This was announced by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Thursday evening. This means that Austrians, Czechs, and Slovaks…

50,000 on “Black Lives Matter” demo in Vienna

June 5, 2020 admin

Vienna, 5. June 2020 – Around 50,000 people took part in an anti-racism demonstration in downtown Vienna on Thursday. The trigger was the death of US-American George Floyd during a police operation in Minneapolis. The demonstration started at 5 p.m. at Human Rights Square in the immediate vicinity of the Marcus Omofuma Monument, which is dedicated to the Nigerian asylum seeker who was killed by police during his deportation in 1999. Originally planned as a rally, there were so many pledges that the march to Karlsplatz was held instead. According…

More than 10,000 joined Demo in Vienna – #BlackLivesMatter

June 4, 2020 admin

After the violent death of George Floyd, who died in the USA through the actions of a policeman, protests against racism are now reaching Austria. Today there were demonstrations in Vienna. Despite strong rain, some 20,000 people gathered at the Human Rights Square in downtown Vienna on Thursday afternoon to protest against racism and police violence. The route took the participants from Getreidemarkt – Rechte Wienzeile – Treitlstraße to Resselpark. – Hector Pascua, Picture: Screenshot, oe24.at, 4. Juni 2020

Also in Vienna: Demonstration of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement

June 4, 2020 admin

After the violent murder of the African-American family man George Floyd, who was killed by a policeman in the USA, protests against racism and police violence are now also taking place in Austria. On Thursday, a rally and demonstration of the #BlackLivesMatter movement will be staged in Vienna at the Platz der Menschenrechte (Human Rights Square) near the Museumsquartier. The deputy district leader of Vienna’s Inner City, Mireille Ngosso (SPÖ), is one of the organisers of the demonstration. “This demonstration is not intended to create a ‘we’ against ‘you’ or…

These borders will open again today – 4 June 2020

June 4, 2020 admin

Vienna. Starting today, Thursday, 4. June 2020, Austria is restoring complete freedom of travel for almost all neighbouring countries – just as it was before Corona., Austria will abolish border and health controls with Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Only Italy will remain subject to restrictions for the time being. For the neighbouring countries other than Italy, the pre-corona situation will apply again – i.e. there will no longer be any quarantine or testing requirements on entry back to Austria. It is expected that the…

Best protection against Virus

June 3, 2020 admin

Researchers have evaluated 172 studies on coronavirus and thus identified the best protective measures. According to a new overview analysis, a combination of distancing, a mouth-nose-mask and eye protection could prevent corona infection in the best possible way. This is what researchers from the Canadian McMaster University wrote in the journal “Lancet” after systematically evaluating 172 studies. One part of the studies dealt with sars-CoV-2, another with SARS and a third with MERS. All these pathogens belong to the corona viruses. In their analysis, the Canadian scientists came to the…

Restaurant Voucher (Gutschein) in Vienna will be released soon

June 2, 2020 admin

To help the the gastronomy sector in Vienna, the city has launched an extraordinary campaign. As reported, every Viennese household will receive a gastronomy voucher (read previous report – City of Vienna gives residents Restaurant vouchers) – to be redeemed by September. The said voucher should be in the mailboxes by the end of the June at the latest. Here are some information about the campaign: One person household will receive a 25 Euro voucher, households with more people a voucher worth 50 Euros. To be redeemed in your favourite…