Month: October 2020

FIGHT AGAINST CORONA “Situation escalates”: Michel warns of tragedy

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In the fight against the Corona crisis, EU Council President Charles Michel urgently calls for a common line of the 27 EU states on quarantine rules, tests and tracing apps. So far the desired results have not yet been achieved, Michel criticized on Tuesday. Now decisive action is called for, because “every day counts”. With rapidly increasing corona infections, first intensive care units in Europe have already reported an overload. These include provinces in Belgium, Great Britain and the Czech Republic. Michel expressed extreme concern ahead of the Corona video…

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Masks will survive Corona

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The majority of the population believes that the pandemic will change our lives in the long term 87 percent of Austrians believe that the wearing of protective masks in everyday life will remain commonplace even after the corona crisis. This is shown by a recent survey of the IMAS Institute. In total, around three out of four fellow countrymen expect the pandemic to change our everyday life in the long term.90% think that we will be more sensitive to sick and coughing people in the future, 80% that welcome kisses…

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Corona Alarm: Hospitals run out of beds

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Vienna. On National Day, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warned: “The last measure is a second lockdown. This will be necessary when intensive care is overburdened because of corona cases.“Sharpening up”. On Tuesday, the office of the Green Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober, also warned: “If these infection figures continue to develop as dynamically as they did last week, the situation could quickly escalate. Experts explain: Under normal conditions, i.e. without corona, 85 to 90 % of intensive care beds are occupied. So there is not that much space available for Covid…

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What happens at the 2nd lockdown

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Vienna. Austria is heading for a second lockdown. However, the government has not (yet) agreed when this will happen. ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz considers a lockdown from 6,000 new infections per day to be without alternative. The Green Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober, however, has his eyes on the hospitals – with intensive care beds at 60 to 70 percent capacity, the time for a lockdown has come. But what does the law say? The amendment to the Covid Measures Act passed by the Austrian Parliament at the end of…

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German government for drastic measures

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet with the Prime Ministers on Wednesday to discuss further restrictions to contain the pandemic in view of rising corona cases. According to a media report, the German government is pressing for drastic restrictions in Germany for the whole of November, as shown in a draft resolution (as of late Tuesday evening) for the conference, which is available to the newspapers of the “Funke Mediengruppe”. According to the resolution, from November 4 to the end of November, citizens are to be urged to “restrict contacts…

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Not enough vaccine doses for all EU citizens by the end of 2021

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The EU with 27 member states and almost 450 million inhabitants has secured one billion vaccine doses from three manufacturers. However, experts warn that not every vaccine may be effective. Brussels. According to insiders, the EU Commission assumes that not enough vaccine doses will be available for the entire EU population by the end of 2021. This was announced by a Commission representative to EU diplomats on Monday, the news agency Reuters learned from a participant of the meeting. A second insider made similar statements. The EU with 27 member…

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Students get notebooks for free or at a reduced price

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Digitization in schools is to be promoted. For this reason, from the 2021/2022 school year onwards, mobile terminals such as notebooks and tablets will be available to fifth grade students at greatly reduced prices or even free of charge. Plans to this effect have been in place since before the summer, and this evening Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) sent the corresponding law for review. There is another exception for the first year. Students who repeat the fifth grade as well as young people from the sixth grade can also…

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Border between Austria and Bavaria to remain open

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Bavaria and Austria want to enable and maintain small border traffic between the two countries. During a visit by European Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) today to her Bavarian counterpart Florian Herrmann (CSU), both reaffirmed their will to keep the borders open in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Herrmann said that this was a “lesson” that Bavaria had learned from the “unpleasant situation” resulting from the closure of the border last March as a “voluntary commitment”. The people in the border areas should be able to live “as…

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Anschober says, there are FOUR things we have to do now

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The corona numbers in Austria continue to rise. Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober (Greens) now made an appeal to the population. The corona situation in Austria is getting worse and worse! In the last 24 hours alone, there have been a total of 2,835 confirmed cases, most of them in Lower Austria with almost 600 new infections. Due to the rapidly increasing numbers, scheduled operations in hospitals have to be postponed again in Upper Austria, and the number of intensive care patients in Austria has also increased. The most important…

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