Month: October 2020

Vienna Election 2020: More than a third of postal voters

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The Vienna City Council elections on October 11, 2020, bring a record number of postal votes. In the meantime, about 340,000 voting cards have been applied for (Friday morning there were 336,000). This already represents 30 percent of the eligible voters. How the postal vote worksThe application period (for personal collection) ends on Friday at 12 noon. Voter turnout should not suffer too much from the Corona pandemic. Advertising for postal voting due to Corona pandemicIn view of the coronavirus pandemic, the possibility of postal voting was strongly promoted by…

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Encyclical Letter “Fratelli tutti” Pope calls for a new world order

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With a powerful plea for fraternity and social friendship across all borders, Pope Francis addressed humanity. In the social encyclical “Fratelli tutti”, published on Sunday in eight languages, he calls for a turning away from selfishness on all levels of society. Only in this way can the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and global challenges such as social inequality and migration be overcome. His letter, which bears the hallmarks of a social utopia, is expressly addressed by the 83-year-old to “all people of good will” regardless of their faith. According…

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RECORD NUMBER OF NEW INFECTIONS: Number of new corona infections in France explodes

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Paris. France recorded the highest number of new infections within one day with 16,972 cases on Saturday. According to the Ministry of Health, a total of 606,625 cases were known. The number of deaths rose by 49 to 32,198. Meanwhile, in Ireland, the authorities spoke of a “significant escalation” of Covid-19 infections. Acting Chief Health Officer Ronan Glynn announced 613 new cases, the highest number since April, when a nationwide lockdown was in effect. The number of new infections also rose rapidly in the USA. The U.S. Centers for Disease…

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714 new corona infections in 12,505 tests for the past 24 hours

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“In contrast to Saturday, these are now stabilized figures – as they have been since September 20. However, these figures are still clearly too high – we have to bring the numbers down. We are working hard on this,” said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober on the current infection figures from Sunday. The strongest increases again came from Vienna (249), Lower Austria (134) and Upper Austria (127). The number of “active cases”, which currently stands at 8,704, has been “relatively constant for two weeks”, the head of department summarized. The reproduction…

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Number of Corona infections in Vienna

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Seven months after the outbreak of the corona wave in Austria, infection levels reach a new, sad peak. The 1,000 infections has been broken again. Within 24 hours, 1,058 people in Austria tested positive for corona viruses. This value was only beaten once since the beginning of the pandemic: on March 26 (1,065 infections). Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) speaks of a “worryingly high number”. The Ministry of Health calculates an alarming increase in new infections of 2.3 percent compared to the previous day. Vienna worst. The next negative record:…

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Remdesivir, antibodies, acid blocker: How Donald Trump is treated

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After Donald Trump was diagnosed with an infection with the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, the U.S. President is being treated with a number of different drugs. For most of the drugs, efficacy against the virus has not yet been reliably proven. What is known about the drugs?. In its online edition, “Kurier” newspaper described the three important drugs being prescribed to the sick president. Remdesivir: Originally developed for the treatment of Ebola, Remdesivir is the only drug for the specific treatment of Covid-19 that is approved in the EU under certain conditions.…

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More than 100,000 corona deaths in India

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The number of corona deaths in India has risen to more than 100,000. This makes the subcontinent the third country in the world after the USA and Brazil to exceed this mark. Together, these three nations account for almost 45 percent of the over one million corona deaths worldwide. So far, 207,060 people in the USA have succumbed to the consequences of the corona virus, 145,388 in Brazil, and the Indian authorities reported a total of 100,842 corona deaths on Saturday. The number of infections was 6.47 million, an increase…

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New Encyclical: Pope Francis visits Assisi

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Pope Francis left on Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the Catholic Church drove to the pilgrimage city of Assisi, some 150 kilometers north of Rome, to sign his new encyclical. According to the Ansa news agency, he arrived there in a car. The encyclical will be the third such teaching letter of the 83-year-old Francis. The text, which bears the Italian title “Fratelli tutti”, is to be published only on Sunday noon in the Vatican in Rome. The new encyclical will deal with…

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Record number for new infections: Over 1,000 new coronavirus infections have been reported

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Over 1,000 new coronavirus infections have been reported from Thursday (as of 23:00) to Friday (as of 23:00). The 1,000 mark was thus exceeded in this country for the first time since March. According to Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens), this is not due to a “particularly high number of tests”, but partly to the “growth of existing known clusters”. The minister described the number of tests in a 24-hour comparison as “average”. According to him, the large increase in new cases is due “to a particularly large number of…

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