Day: October 29, 2020

Belgium puts all of Austria on the red list

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With Carinthia and Styria, Belgium today also put the last two federal states on the red list of risk areas. As the Foreign Ministry confirmed to the APA, the regulation, which corresponds to a level six travel warning, comes into force tomorrow afternoon. This means that from that time on, a ten-day quarantine can be imposed on travellers entering Belgium from Austria. According to the Foreign Ministry, due to congestion at the test centers, the obligation to test after entering from “red zones” is temporarily suspended for asymptomatic persons until…

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New record for new infections in Germany

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The number of registered new corona infections in Germany has reached a new record of 16,774 cases within one day. The previous record value of the previous day was 14,964 cases. The numbers are also rising sharply in Sweden. In India, the mark of eight million corona cases was broken. On Thursday a week ago, the health authorities in Germany reported 11,287 new infections. This was the first time since the beginning of the corona pandemic that the figure had exceeded the 10,000 mark in Germany. The current figures are…

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What happens when the traffic light is red?

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If the official Corona traffic light of the Federal Government shows “red” for a region, this means that there are “uncontrolled outbreaks and a widespread spread of the virus”. If this is the case, the following 11 steps come into force immediately: The minimum distance of a meter is to be kept to all household strangers. In all public transport, stores, social and health facilities, public areas, enclosed spaces, at events and when in contact with risk groups – i.e. basically everywhere except at home or in nature – the…

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Corona traffic light: Austria almost completely red

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On Friday — the Austria map of the Corona traffic light commission is to be colored red. Only parts of Kärnten could be excluded. On Thursday registered 4,453 new infections. And exceeded thereby that number, which had prognosticated for instance Ages leader Franz Allerberger – 3,000 to 4,000 per day – only for December. Tirol has highest valueThe seven-day incidence is 254 throughout Austria. Tyrol has risen to 376, followed by Vorarlberg with 346, Salzburg with 311 and Upper Austria with 303. The Tyrolean district of Schwaz has an unbelievable…

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Coronavirus: Announcement of new measures on Saturday

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The government may announce new steps against the spread of the coronavirus on Saturday. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) called this date on Thursday after a meeting with medical experts in the Federal Chancellery. If the currently high number of new infections continues to rise, the intensive care units would already be overloaded “in the middle or end of November”, said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens). On Friday, Kurz said that there would be talks with the social partners. On Saturday, meetings with the state governors and the opposition are on…

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Almost 4500 new infections in Austria

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Most of the new cases were reported in Lower Austria – which causes trouble for the authorities in that province. In the Salzburg town of Kuchl, the quarantine ends at the weekend. The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Austria. According to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior, 4453 new infections have been registered within 24 hours, most of them in Lower Austria. This is the highest figure since the outbreak of the pandemic. There is already speculation about a tightening of measures in Austria. Late registration…

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Poland registers over 300 deaths in 24 hours

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In Poland, the number of daily new infections with the coronavirus has exceeded the 20,000 mark for the first time. Within 24 hours, 20,156 new cases were added, most of them (about 2,633) in the Wielkopolska region in the west of the country. In the same period 301 people died. This was announced by the Polish Ministry of Health today. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 5,149 deaths in Poland associated with Covid-19 disease. The country has about 38 million inhabitants. One million infected in FranceIn France,…

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New CoV variant dominating in Europe

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Swiss researchers have identified a new SARS-CoV-2 variant that has spread throughout Europe in recent months. Among other things, the relaxation of travel restrictions made it easy for the new variant to spread. “20A.EU1” is currently one of the most widespread variants of the new corona virus in Europe, as the University of Basel announced today. At present, there are hundreds of variants that differ from each other by small mutations in the genetic material. In Switzerland, between 30 and 40 percent of the virus genome sequences studied belong to…

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Switzerland takes Austria off red list

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Switzerland takes the federal states of Vienna, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Salzburg, which have been classified as risk areas since September, off its red list. Under the new regulation, which comes into force tomorrow, persons from all regions of Austria can again enter Switzerland without quarantine requirements, according to the website of the Foreign Ministry in Vienna and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). In future, the Swiss Federal Council will only include on its risk list states and territories whose 14-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants is…

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