6,120 cases! More than 300 infected persons in hospitals

The Corona situation in Austria is coming to a head! Once again, there has been a sharp increase in new infections in the last 24 hours. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober recently made it clear that if the corona figures in Austria continue to rise this week, the lockdown “light” in Austria will be tightened. And a tightening was already announced today, Tuesday! Thus, stores will only be open until 19.00 hours from Wednesday onwards. A possible “explosion” of new infections did not occur yesterday, Monday, with “only” 5,600 new cases,…

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Majority of Austrians would be willing to be vaccinated

About 54 percent of the Austrians would be vaccinated against COVID-19, should there be a vaccine. This is the result of a representative online survey conducted by GfK among 1,005 participants between the end of September and the beginning of October. Almost half of the respondents stated that they had been psychologically stressed by the initial restrictions. However, this situation had improved after the end of the lockdown, the results were presented. “2020 is a very challenging year. None of us would have known in January how the following ten…

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Health Minister Anschober: measures will be tightened if no decrease of daily infections

Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) threatened on Sunday to tighten measures to contain the coronavirus if the daily number of new infections does not decrease and if the number of Covid-19 patients requiring intensive care continues to rise. “The next few days will be days of setting the course. If the effectiveness of the partial lockdown does not provide relief, we will have to tighten the partial lockdown,” said Anschober. Anschober described the reported positive test results – 5,933 were recorded throughout Austria on Sunday – as “still dramatically high”,…

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More than ten million corona infections in the USA

Experts assume that there is a high number of unreported corona infections in most countries. Only ten days ago, the USA had exceeded the threshold of nine million confirmed infections. The number of new infections recently rose to an average of more than 100,000 per day. At the weekend, according to Johns Hopkins, the number even exceeded 120,000. More than 237,000 people in the U.S., a country of about 330 million people, have died in connection with Covid-19 – more than in any other country. According to Johns Hopkins, there…

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Slovakia puts Austria on red list

In addition to the Czech Republic, Slovakia also includes Hungary, Poland and Austria on the list of “red” CoV risk countries. This was decided yesterday by the crisis management team (UKS), as the Minister of the Interior Roman Mikulec announced according to the news agency TASR. So far the Slovakian authorities had classified Vienna, Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Upper Austria and Lower Austria as risk regions. For these federal states there was the recommendation to refrain from avoidable trips there. Rapid tests planned at border crossingsIn the near future it is planned…

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