Actual News from Austria
South Korea reports 103 new coronavirus infections. In 85 of these cases, South Korean people have been infected, the authorities announced today. This is the highest number of local transmissions since the end of March. In total, South Korea now has 14,873 confirmed infections and 305 deaths
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According to a government representative, the leadership of Belarus will release all demonstrators who were arrested during protests this week today. Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Barsukov told journalists in Minsk. The protests had been sparked by the controversial re-election of authoritarian long-term president Alexander Lukashenko. At least two demonstrators were killed, thousands were taken into custody. The opposition once again accuses Lukashenko of electoral fraud, and in the West, too, there are massive doubts about the official election results. A special meeting of EU foreign ministers is scheduled today to…
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13 August 2020 – A dispute is raging in the US Congress over financial aid for the Post Office, which is directly linked to the presidential election and is paralysing negotiations on coronavirus aid. President Donald Trump told Fox yesterday that his Republicans rejected the Democrats’ demand for additional money for the Post Office. The Democrats accuse Trump of deliberately betting that the already ill-positioned company will run into big problems in the expected rush of mail votes for the November election. Voting by mailPostal voting is particularly important this…
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Vienna, 13.08.2020 – 155 new infections with the coronavirus within 24 hours in Austria (as of 9.30 a.m.) were reported by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health on Thursday. There was a slight decrease in the number of persons treated in hospital as well as in the number of intensive care patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: 114, of which 22 intensive care cases after 118 with 25 intensive care cases on Wednesday. However, the number of deaths related to Covid-19 increased by one person and is now…
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Austrian customers of the video streaming provider have to dig much deeper into their pockets. While Netflix in Germany (due to the reduction in VAT) has recently reduced its prices until the end of the year, the situation is different in Austria. Here customers have to dig deeper into their pockets with the video streaming market leader. Of the three available subscription variants, two will become more expensive. Increase of up to 24 Euro per yearInstead of the previous 11.99 euros per month, 12.99 euros per month must now be…
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A drama of Shakespearean proportions, which is currently taking place at the Spanish court. In the role of the villain: Old King Juan Carlos (82), who threatens to tear the whole family down with a corruption scandal. In the role of the femme fatale: The German-Danish princess Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (55). Demonised by the media as the blonde evil that lured Juan Carlos into the love and money trap. And in the middle the sufferer – Queen Letizia (47), who is desperately fighting for the reputation of the crown and…
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Within the framework of the state-funded Corona test programme for tourism businesses, a good 65,000 tests have been carried out so far, and 2,256 businesses have taken part in the programme, the Ministry of Tourism announced on Wednesday. In the future, the number of tests will be published every week on the platform www.sichere-gastfreundschaft.at/beherbergung. Since July, the Federal Government has been promoting corona tests in tourism businesses with a maximum of 85 euros per test – every employee can have himself examined once a week. Up to 150 million euros…
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Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) has clearly rejected the use of the world’s first approved corona vaccine presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week. “For the EU and thus for Austria an insufficiently tested vaccine is out of the question”, the Minister said in a statement on Wednesday. There are clear rules for testing vaccines – and these must also be adhered to “100 per cent” in the case of a vaccine against the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health reacted to the current debate on the approval of…
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Syria’s head of state Bashar al-Assad apparently suffered a fit of weakness during a speech to the newly composed parliament in Damascus. According to “Spiegel Online”, which refers to Syrian state television, Assad had to interrupt his speech for a few minutes due to “low blood pressure”. He was able to continue speaking normally. The news of the attack of weakness was also broadcast on the official Twitter channel of the presidency, along with a photo that Assad apparently showed during his speech to parliamentarians. Parliament in Syria is not…
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