Month: October 2020

EU reserves half a million additional doses of Remdesivir

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Brussels. The EU Commission has reserved 500,000 additional doses of the corona drug Remdesivir from the US pharmaceutical manufacturer Gilead. The 27 EU countries as well as Great Britain, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and six Balkan countries could now apply for the funds in Brussels, the authority explained on Wednesday. The drug under the brand name Veklury is to be used for accelerated recovery in severe corona disease. The antiviral preparation Remdesivir received conditional marketing authorization for the European Union in early July in a fast-track procedure. The European Medicines Agency…

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Over 1,200 new infections! Negative record reached

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Within 24 hours, 1,209 new infections were registered – more than ever before. On Thursday, a record number of 1,209 new SARS-CoV-2 infections were confirmed within 24 hours in Austria. It is also the third time this month that the increase is in the four-digit range, 1,058 were reported on Saturday, 1,028 on Wednesday yesterday. On average over the past seven days, there were thus 910 new infections daily. The number of deaths related to SARS-CoV-2 increased by eight to 838 persons. On Thursday there were also 9,930 actively ill…

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iPhone 12: Apple introduces new devices in October

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Apple announced its new event on October 13. Fans suspect that the new iPhone 12 will be presented then. There will also be different versions of it. However, it might be possible that not all versions will be available in October. The reason for this might be the Corona crisis. The iPhone 12 could be available soonNormally the big Apple event always takes place in September, but due to the Corona crisis it has been postponed. Now the new date is fixed: On October 13th Apple will start the event…

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Coronavirus shows: World is poorly prepared for global pandemic

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The world is poorly prepared for a global pandemic – according to UN Secretary General Guterres this is shown by the corona virus. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed inadequate health care systems, yawning gaps in social protection, major structural inequalities within and between countries and, above all, “how poorly the world is prepared for a global pandemic”. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres drew this conclusion in a dossier published on Wednesday. Coronavirus caused more than one million deathsWorldwide, the pandemic has so far claimed more than one million lives and…

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Numbers explode: Over 4,000 new infections in Germany

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Within only 24 hours, 4,058 new corona cases were reported. The number of new coronavirus infections recorded in Germany is rising rapidly. Within one day, the health authorities reported 4,058 new corona infections, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday morning. That is 1,200 more than the day before. Corona hotspotsThe RKI warned in its status report of Tuesday evening that it is necessary for the entire population to commit itself to infection prevention. At present, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days in…

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SIGNS FOR COVID: Researchers discover new corona symptoms

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Doctors have observed new Covid symptoms in patients. The consequences can be dramatic. The longer the coronavirus pandemic lasts, the more symptoms are attributed to Covid-19. If an infection initially seemed to have a similar effect to a common flu, the list of symptoms is getting longer and longer. Head, nose, throat, lungs, heart, kidneys, stomach, intestines and even the toes – there is hardly any area that is not affected by the virus. Neurological symptomsScientists at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the USA have now discovered that 80 percent of…

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TV Debate – Mike Pence versus Kamala Harris: Corona, the Supreme Court and a more respectful tone

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In the TV duel between the vice-candidates there were strong accusations: it was about the pandemic, the role of the Trump government and the Supreme Court. Presenter Susan Page had the debate largely under control. In the first and only TV duel of the candidates for the office of US vice president, Kamala Harris has vehemently attacked the record of the government of President Donald Trump. The senator and campaign partner of Democratic challenger Joe Biden called the president’s corona policy “the greatest failure in the history” of the United…

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EIGHT MORE DEATHS – 1029 new corona cases in Austria, 427 in Vienna

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In a 24-hour comparison, more than 1000 new corona infections have once again been recorded in Austria. Exactly 1029 cases have been registered since Tuesday (as of 9.30 a.m.) according to information from the crisis management team, 427 of them in Vienna alone. Most recently, the increase in cases on October 3 was in the four-digit range (1058), and even more had only been registered in the middle of the lockdown on March 26 (1065). Another eight corona-infected people died. So far there have been 50,848 positive test results in…

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CoV crisis could plunge 115 million people into “extreme poverty

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The coronavirus-induced economic recession could plunge up to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year. By 2021 the crisis could even push 150 million people below the poverty line, the World Bank warned today. People living on less than 1.60 euros per day fall below the poverty line. Without the outbreak of the pandemic, the global poverty rate would be an estimated 7.9 percent, the World Bank said in a new report. As a result of the crisis it could rise to 9.4 percent. This would destroy decades of…

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