Wiener Linien extend compulsory masks to station buildings

From now on the mouth nose protection must be worn upon entering the buildings of the public transport system.Wiener Linien is adapting its corona protection measures to the requirements of the federal government: Immediately the mouth nose protection applies not only in the vehicles and on the subway platforms, but in all Viennese lines buildings upon entering the entrance area.“The fact is: The mask obligation in the Öffis helps us to prevent infections and the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 – even with high person frequency, says the environmental physician Hans-Peter…

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Corona: “Oxford vaccine” could be available by the end of 2020

British researchers are confident that Phase III study will yield positive results. With regard to the vaccine co-developed by Oxford researcher Sarah Gilbert, called AZD1222 against Covid-19, the team announced current results for the course of the Phase III study for the next few days, writes the British newspaper The Independent. Gilbert already said in The Independent that the latest results show high efficacy. Hopes were high that the vaccine could soon be presented to health officials and would then be available by the end of the year. The pharmaceutical…

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New infections: Record figures in Hungary and Poland

In Hungary and Poland, the authorities today reported record levels of new coronavirus infections. In the past 24 hours, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in 1,322 people, the Hungarian government’s crisis team announced today. For more than two weeks now, between 700 and 1,000 new infections have been recorded daily in the country with its approximately ten million inhabitants. The number of people dying in connection with the infection is also increasing. In the past two days, 33 people have died. The total number of deaths due to the…

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688 new infections in Austria: “Stabilization at too high a level”.

The number of new infections in the past 24 hours was 688 on Friday, well below the 873 reported the day before by the Ministry of the Interior. On the other hand, the number of actively ill persons rose slightly from 8,370 to 8,385. This was a “stabilization at a level that was clearly too high,” said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober in a press conference on Friday. Nevertheless, it was good news, as Anschober said the figures had settled at 600 to 800 cases per day. In addition, the tests…

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Corona-positive: What could make Donald Trump a risk patient

CoV-2 has not spared US President Donald Trump either.“We’re okay.” With these words the First Lady of the USA, Melania Trump, made her corona infection public on Twitter on Friday. Her husband, US President Donald Trump, also tested positive for the novel virus and was anxious to appease her: “We will get through this together,” he twittered. It is difficult to predict whether the infection will develop mildly for the politician. However, Trump meets a number of criteria that could increase the risk of a severe course. AgeFor example, the…

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Declining figures without strict measures: First city may have reached corona contamination – the price is high

Herd immunity would mean the end of the pandemic and corona restrictions. In a Brazilian city it could be reached already now, as researchers show. Nevertheless, the strategy is not worth copying there. Manaus in Brazil could be the first city in the world to develop a kind of herd immunity against the corona virus. At least that is what a new international study published by researchers on the pre-print server medRxiv.org suggests. More than 30 epidemiologists, virologists and physicians have tested thousands of blood donations from the Brazilian cities…

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Commentary: If people could behave sensibly…

Only if all citizens followed the rules could a second lockdown be preventedIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the population in an unusually drastic speech: only if all citizens followed the rules could a second lockdown be prevented: We are risking just about everything we have achieved in the last few months. The great decline in attention and compliance with the measures is also having an effect in Germany. And federalism. Merkel had to agree on common minimum rules, for example on wearing masks, at the same time as the…

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Another record increase: Almost 900 cases in only 24 hours

Both new infections and corona intensive care patients continue to increase. In just 24 hours, coronavirus cases increased by 873 – almost 900 – yesterday. This is the number of new positive cases that were recently reported during the “first wave” and the lockdown. Unfortunately, there can be no talk of a stabilization or even a drop in new infections. On Monday – on the weekend there is less testing and less registrations – there were 556 new infections. On Tuesday – the day the traffic light commission takes as…

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UPDATE: US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania tested positive for Corona

According to US President Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus. He announced this on Twitter today. After the confirmed coronavirus infection of a close advisor, Trump had isolated himself with First Lady Melania. “The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process,” Trump had written on Twitter last night. There have been corona infections in Trump’s environment before. However, Hicks is the person closest to the president who is known to be infected. According to unanimous media…

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