Month: July 2020

According to information from different news agencies in Austria, the government’s emergency plan could come into force this week. The Coronavirus Emergency Staff – i.e. the government – has already plans for the emergency the “second wave” – a renewed exponential growth of the Corona virus – is to be avoided by a step-by-step plan: The most important thing, the government says, is testing. We are still a long way from the original 15,000 tests per day. What is already happening are screenings – i.e. in certain areas, such as…

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Viennese Mayor Michael Ludwig maintained that for the time being, no immediate cause for this – a total of 4,100 infections have been registered so far. Vienna. In Vienna, the precautionary measures regarding coronavirus could be tightened up again if the situation requires it – similar to the situation in Upper Austria, where, for example, the wearing of a mouth and nose protector in official buildings is again mandatory. Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) explained this in a press conference on Monday. For the time being, however, no corresponding steps are…

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In Austria there are currently more than 1000 active coronavirus patients. 706 people have died with Covid-19 so far, 16,647 are considered to have recovered. In the past 24 hours, 85 new cases have been reported, most of them in Upper Austria. In the last three days, the number of newly infected persons throughout Austria had exceeded 100 in each case. The dashboard of the Ministry of Health reported 1012 active patients on Monday morning. 78 people currently have to be treated in hospital for a corona infection, eleven of…

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Vienna, Austria, 5. July 2020 – Already for the third day in a row there are more than 100 new coronavirus infections in Austria! From Saturday to Sunday the number rose again by 115, just like from Friday to Saturday. As of Sunday morning, there were 959 active coronavirus cases in Austria, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health. According to the Ministry of the Interior, about 18,200 people have  been tested positive so far. 706 people have died of Covid-19 so far,…

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Infection rates are rising again in Austria. ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on rising corona numbers and the obligation to wear masks. In an interview conducted by daily newspaper „Österreich“,  Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that the corona virus will keep everyone busy until a drug or vaccine is available. „The current situation is comparable to an accordion that is constantly on the move. There will always be steps forward and steps backward. It is the same in other countries with which we are in close exchange, such as Israel or Australia.…

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