Month: October 2020

Corona: AGES warns of up to 4,000 infections per day in Austria

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With 1,552 new infections, Austria today, Thursday, again recorded a record high in new infections. However, as the AGES now predicts, the worst time is just around the corner: experts expect up to 3,000 to 4,000 new infections per day in December, when the flu season begins. This would also significantly increase the number of hospitalizations. Currently, 664 people are undergoing hospital treatment – an increase of 31% over the past 7 days (an increase of 11% in intensive care). However, the upcoming flu season also poses major problems for…

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Coronavirus: WHO expects longer wave for Europe

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Europe is now expecting a longer wave in the corona crisis without a major peak. This is the assumption of the European Office of the World Health Organization WHO, as Regional Director Hans Kluge explained in an online statement in Copenhagen on Thursday. He called for targeted, regionally and temporally limited measures to avoid “collateral damage” to health and society. “The pandemic will not stop on its own, but we can do it,” he said. Local lockdownsKluge stressed that local “lockdowns” were still necessary. However, these no longer had anything…

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Corona Records in the Czech Republic and Italy

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Despite intensified measures in the fight against the pandemic, the corona figures in the Czech Republic continue to rise. On Wednesday 9,544 new cases were recorded, the Ministry of Health announced. This was the highest number in one day since the beginning of the pandemic. In Italy, the government is examining the possibility of introducing limited lockdowns on a local basis. On Wednesday there were 7,332 new infections there, more than ever before within 24 hours. The total number of people ever infected in the Czech Republic rose to just…

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Eleven deaths within 24 hours and a number of infections

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Yesterday, a record number of new infections with the virus was recorded. 1346 cases were fed into the reporting system, whereby the number was then reduced to 1335 in the course of the day, because eleven cases were wrongly assigned to Wolfsberg in Carinthia instead of Sopron in Hungary. But neither at the beginning of the month nor at the peak of the lockdown were more cases registered! 402 persons were reported in Vienna, followed by Upper Austria with 234 cases and Lower Austria with 139. The winter sports mecca…

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Portugal declares state of emergency over Corona Virus

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Portugal, which has come through the crisis relatively well so far, yesterday declared a nationwide state of emergency because of the sharp rise in the number of infections there as well. The order is initially valid for 15 days starting today and allows the government to impose restrictions on freedom of movement and other drastic measures if necessary, said head of government Antonio Costa after a meeting with his cabinet in Lisbon, as the government announced. He said that only a maximum of five people should be allowed to gather…

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Vienna Airport prepares Corona rapid test

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Rapid swab test – and the result is available in 15 minutes! Vienna International Airport is currently checking a quick corona test with its own staff. This is how it should work in practice: Passengers show their boarding card in the check-in area of Terminal 3, undergo an antigen test and after 10 to 15 minutes receive the diagnosis by SMS or in paper form. If the result is negative, the journey continues. If there is any suspicion, a PCR test is arranged in coordination with the authorities. First trial…

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Germany reports record number of new corona infections

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The number of people in Germany newly infected with the coronavirus within one day has again risen sharply, reaching a record high. The health authorities reported 6,638 new infections – around 1,500 more, than on Wednesday. So far, the highest number had been registered at the end of March with just under 6,300 newly infected persons. However, the current figures are only partly comparable with those from the spring, as considerably more testing is being done – and thus more infections are being detected. The number of coronate tests has…

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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz appeal to federal states because of rising corona numbers

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In view of the increasing number of corona infections throughout Austria, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) addressed the federal states with a written appeal on Thursday. In several of them, he said, the figures had reached a “very worrying level”. Tighter measures were urgently needed there. “We are currently seeing a massive spread of the virus in some cities and countries in Europe, which makes it necessary to fight it with very drastic measures,” said the Chancellor in the text submitted to the APA: “It must be clear to everyone…

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Emissions of air pollutants decrease

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Emissions of the most serious air pollutants continue to decline in the European Union. In the case of particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants, the values fell between 2017 and 2018 – in Austria even more than the EU average. This continues the slow but steady trend in emissions of these pollutants that has persisted since 1990, as the European Environment Agency EEA announced in Copenhagen. Before the coronavirusAccording to the EEA, the EU-wide decrease from 2017 to 2018 for particulate matter (PM2.5) was 3.8 percent, while nitrogen and…

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