813 new infections throughout Austria, case numbers in Vienna close to peak

The tightened corona measures are now official by decree and will apply from Monday. The most important Corona news of the day at a glance – In Austria, there have been 813 new infections with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of positive test results to 37,474. 432 new infections were recorded in Vienna, which is close to the previous daily maximum of 444 new cases.– Health Minister Rudolf Anschober locates omissions in some federal states due to long waiting times for corona tests.…

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FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 Chancellor Kurz: vaccine ready for use in the first half of 2021

Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is convinced that in the first half of 2021 not only a corona vaccine will be researched but also approved and used in Europe. He made this forecast regarding the further fight against the corona pandemic on Saturday after a meeting with the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies in Basel at the end of his visit to Switzerland. Meeting with heads of pharmaceutical companiesAfter a meeting with representatives of the pharmaceutical companies Roche, Novartis and Lonza, the Chancellor expressed his satisfaction with the state of…

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UPDATE: 939 new positive infections in Austria

939 tested positiveSo far (status: yesterday, 18 September 2020, 23.00 o’clock) 37,500 persons in Austria were tested positively. That is 939 more than 24 hours before. There are currently 7,447 active coronavirus cases – the previous peak was almost 9,000 at the beginning of April, according to figures from the Ministry of Health. A total of 1,413,965 tests have been performed and reported so far. The figures is published by ORF.at. The public television company uses the figures from the Epidemiological Reporting System (EMS) as the basis for its reporting.…

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This is what the new traffic light looks like in Austria

New districts are orange since yesterday, others yellow. And this should continue. Vienna. On Thursday the traffic light commission met again. Since yesterday, not a single Austrian state is completely green. So far, Carinthia, Burgenland and Salzburg were finally set to green in the traffic light. Now Eisenstadt, Rust, Villach and Salzburg have been switched to yellow. This means that there is now also a “medium risk”. An eighth district – Zwettl was added – is now orange.In principle, these should now be valid for at least two to four…

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Coronavirus: First hospital overcrowded

Austrian newspaper “Österreich” reports that The Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Vienna is Austria’s leading corona clinic – is now overcrowded. The rising corona numbers are already leading to the first consequences in Vienna’s hospitals. The leading corona clinic, the SMZ Süd (Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital) is fully occupied. Currently there is no room for further Covid-19 intensive care patients there. The new infection cases must now be transferred to other hospitals such as the Floridsdorf Clinic, Favoriten or the AKH. 34 patients are currently in intensive care in Vienna, a total of 171 patients are…

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Trafficker report: Corona slows down illegal entry

The Corona crisis has temporarily reduced the number of illegal immigrants. Since July, however, their number has been rising again, said Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer on the occasion of the publication of the 2019 Management Report on Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings. Currently, there is a higher migration pressure towards Austria. Nehammer wants to use drones in particular to monitor the borders. While in July and August 2019 there were 3,590 apprehensions, this year there were 4,390, an increase of more than 20 percent. “We will therefore…

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These corona rules are valid starting Monday, 21 September 2020

Already on Thursday the leaders of the Federal government informed the Austrian population about the new measures. In order to prevent a second lockdown, they were necessary. “We know that infections mainly occur indoors, in private contact. What makes people happy is often the site of contagions. Social contacts must now be further restricted throughout Austria,” said Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. On Friday evening the “change of the COVID 19 relaxation regulation” was published. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober thus presented the legal basis for the restrictions, which will come into…

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