Month: September 2020

Gastro registration: False name can cost up to 1,450 euros

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After several violations of the Corona protection measures in Viennese clubs had become known over the weekend, Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ), State Police Director Gerhard Pürstl and the head of the Immediate Action Group of the City Council, Walter Hillerer, confirmed on Tuesday that the city and the police will continue to intensively monitor the catering industry. Ludwig also defended the compulsory registration in the gastronomy sector, which came into force on Monday. Due to the high number of infections, he said, the city is forced to intervene in the…

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In these European countries the corona numbers are currently exploding

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Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, according to US scientists, more than one million people have died worldwide after infection with the virus. This was revealed on Monday evening (local time) from data at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. More than 33.2 million infections were detected. Experts assume a high number of unreported cases. Around one-fifth of all recorded deaths are in the USA, where more than 205,000 people died. In many European countries, the figures have also risen rapidly again recently. The situation is particularly dramatic in Montenegro,…

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Czech Republic wants to declare a state of emergency again

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Prague. In view of rising corona numbers, the Czech Republic wants to declare a state of emergency again. This is certainly necessary, said head of government Andrej Babis of the populist party ANO on Monday evening on the television station Nova. He assumed that the cabinet would meet in Prague on Wednesday for a special session to decide on this step. The state of emergency already applied for two months in spring and expired at the end of May. Among other things, it allows the government to suspend civil rights…

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One third of food is wasted

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One third of all food produced worldwide is not eaten, but is destroyed on the way to the consumer or ends up in the garbage. At the same time, these wasted foods cause around eight percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions, the WWF and the sustainability NGO WRAP criticize in a recent report. In total, more than one billion tons of food is not eaten worldwide every year. In order to grow this amount, an area the size of China is needed. Moreover, if food waste were a country,…

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Virologist believes vaccine wll be out this year

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Coronavirus vaccines are being developed at record speed. Several substances are in the final stages of clinical trials. The Austrian virologist Florian Krammer, who works in the USA, believes that vaccines will be launched on the market this year. Although there is no approved vaccine against a human coronavirus yet and vaccine development normally takes around 15 years, the prospect of a rapidly available, market-ready compound within one and a half years relatively soon after the start of the coronavirus pandemic was raised. As the virologist Florian Krammer from the…

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Van der Bellen sees the earth “in a state of emergency”

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“Our planet is in a state of emergency!” This warning was conveyed today by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. In the run-up to the Biodiversity Summit, Van der Bellen emphasized in a video message on the occasion of a “Leaders Event for Nature and People”: “We are observing the effects of the overuse of natural resources, unsustainable habits and the global climate crisis. “And every day we are feeling the devastating effects of these factors on our ecosystems,” continued the…

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Netherlands tighten rules for three weeks

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The Netherlands are tightening their coronavirus rules for an initial period of three weeks in view of rapidly increasing case numbers. “Everyone has seen the alarming reports,” said Prime Minister Mark Rutte this evening in The Hague. Consequences must now be drawn from this. These include that from tomorrow evening on, all sporting events must take place without an audience. Cafes and restaurants must close at 10 p.m. and are not allowed to admit new guests after 9 p.m. In addition altogether only 30 humans may be at the same…

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Slovakia wants to declare a state of emergency again

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In view of the escalating numbers of new coronavirus infections in Slovakia, the country’s crisis management team has decided to declare a new state of emergency. This was announced by the Slovak chief hygienist Jan Mikas at a press conference in Bratislava this evening. It was said that the government will definitely have to decide on the crisis management team’s proposal, which will probably happen on Wednesday. Emergency was already in force in Slovakia during the first wave of coronavirus in spring, but only in the health sector. This was…

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Data show the true extent of the corona pandemic

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Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, more than 30 million infections with the corona virus have been recorded worldwide. But how widespread is the new corona virus SARS-CoV-2 actually? Time and again, even experts say that the official corona figures do not provide a reliable picture of the current reality and that the number of unreported cases is much higher. The true extent of the pandemic is much worse, a report in the “Economist” now also suggests, which is based on data from more than 270 antibody studies worldwide.…

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