Month: September 2020

Vienna is now a risk city: Germany issues travel warning for Vienna

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Now returnees need to have a current negative test. As long as there is no negative result, they must remain in self-isolation for a maximum of 14 days. In view of the high number of new infections, Vienna is now officially considered a corona risk area in Germany. This is evident from the list of risk areas updated on Wednesday evening and maintained by the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI). “The federal state of Vienna is considered a risk area”, the institute’s website states. Entering the country from risk areas…

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Germany declares Vienna a risk area

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Berlin is reacting to the rising corona numbers in Vienna. The official decision is to be announced in the afternoon. For Switzerland, Vienna is already on the quarantine list. The German government is alarmed by the fact that the corona numbers in Vienna continue to rise. Vienna is therefore to be declared a risk area on Wednesday afternoon. “Since September 5, there have been significantly more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, so we are forced to take action,” the daily newspaper STANDARD wrote. How to go onThe decision…

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3 important remedies to minimize spread of COVID 19

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Clemens Martin Auer, the head of the traffic light commission, had been against the color orange on Monday afternoon, but the next day he turned around. He justifies this with increasing numbers of infected persons. The mathematician and simulation expert from the Technical University of Vienna, Niki Popper, on the other hand, is not at all surprised by the rising numbers in the ORF report: “A slow increase was already visible since July. In addition, there were the vacation returnees and that there are now more indoor activities again”. The…

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New Corona rules will be announced today

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Today the seven orange districts are meeting with the Chancellor and the Minister of Health. New Corona measures will be announced thereafter. Yesterday the Corona traffic light was officially switched. As reported, seven districts – including Vienna and Innsbruck – have now been switched to orange. 35 districts are now switched to yellow. Throughout Austria, the number of new corona virus infections rose to 764, which is four times higher per capita than in Germany. But: switching to orange and the warnings of a “higher rate of infection” did not…

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Trump expects corona vaccine in three to four weeks

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U.S. President Donald Trump expects an effective coronavirus vaccine within the next three to four weeks. “We are close to a vaccine,” he told ABC News. “If you want to know the truth, the previous government might have taken years to get their hands on a vaccine because of the FDA and all the approvals,” Trump said. “And we could have it within weeks, three weeks, four weeks, now,” the president continued. Last week, Pfizer and BionTech reaffirmed their commitment to file for regulatory approval in October if the results…

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VIENNA Minister of Education Heinz Faßmann: “Schools and universities remain yellow”.

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Despite the conversion of the Corona traffic light to orange in seven districts “the schools remain yellow and the universities likewise”. Minister of Education Heinz Fassmann (ÖVP) emphasized this in a press conference on Tuesday. The recommendation of the traffic light commission was followed here. He said that the occurrence of infections showed that it was “epidemiologically justifiable” to keep the educational institutions open. Originally it had been said that upper secondary schools in “orange” districts could switch to home schooling. Since the start of school, 202 cases of proven…

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764 new infections in Austria

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In Austria, 764 new corona cases have been reported in the past 24 hours. In Upper Austria 57 positive test results were registered. With 400 newly discovered cases within 24 hours, Vienna again recorded a peak value on Tuesday.For the first time since the end of March there were more than 6000 active corona virus cases in Austria on Tuesday. In a 24-hour comparison, 764 new infections were added. This means that there were 6194 actively infected persons as of 9.30 a.m., according to figures from the Ministry of the…

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Our Lady of Penafrancia celebration in Austria to go online

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The Bikol Society in Austria has “introduced some changes” in the traditional celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Penafrancia this month due to the threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic. “For those unable to attend, join us in prayer from 11 to 18 September 2020 at 18:00 and on 19 September 2020 at 11:00,” Marizel Rojas, President of the Bikol Society Austria encouraged the faithful to recite the traditional novena to Our Lady of Penafrancia. Due to the CoViD-19 pandemic restrictions, there will be no Fluvial Procession…

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Signs of life discovered on Venus

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Astronomers have long speculated about possible life on the Earth’s neighbor. Now researchers have discovered a gas that indicates that microbes could inhabit the inhospitable planet. High up in the atmosphere of Venus, astronomers have discovered the gas monophosphane. The compound of one phosphorus and three hydrogen atoms (PH3) is produced on Earth mainly by bacteria that thrive in oxygen-deficient environments. However, this is not proof of a biological source on our neighboring planet, writes Jane Greaves’ team from Cardiff University in the journal “Nature Astronomy”. The gas initially only…

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