Upadate: COVID 19 in Austria – Reproduction number again below 1.0

The effective reproduction figure for Austria is below 1.0 for the first time since 10 August. 0.99 additional persons were infected by an infected person on average, as can be seen from the calculations of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and the Technical University of Graz. “The number of newly diagnosed cases every day is still at an increased level”, was however stressed in the update published yesterday afternoon on the AGES website. Few cases – large fluctuationsThe period under investigation was September 17 to 29. The…

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Worldwide Hotspot: In this country Corona is the deadliest

In terms of population, there is no country where more people die of corona than here. In terms of population, there is no other country in the world where so many people die of the disease Covid-19 as in Peru. The South American country recently registered 98.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. This puts it in first place worldwide, ahead of Belgium, Bolivia and Spain. Only the small state of San Marino in Italy has even more deaths in relation to its population – but with a total of just 42…

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Study shows: very few people infect a large number

A team of U.S. researchers analyzed data from Indian health authorities on 85,000 COVID 19 cases and nearly 600,000 of their contacts. 70 percent of those originally infected (index persons) examined did not infect anyone. Eight percent of those infected, however, were responsible for 60 percent of the new infections that were tracked, according to the study. In families, only nine percent of those infected for the first time infected their close contacts. “Contact testing is personnel-intensive and therefore limited in richer countries. In India, the situation is different,” writes…

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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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