Day: November 11, 2020

Formal green light for EU contract with Biontech/Pfizer

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The European Union can purchase up to 300 million doses of the promising corona vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer. The EU Commission formally approved the framework agreement with the two companies on Wednesday, as EU circles confirmed. The EU states will thus be entitled to purchase the vaccine as soon as it is approved. It is not yet clear when this will happen. The EU agreement provides for the purchase of 200 million vaccine doses from Biontech/Pfizer and the option of a further 100 million doses. Under an EU agreement,…

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More than one million corona cases in Italy

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Since the beginning of the epidemic in February, the neighbouring country has recorded more than one million infections. 623 people have died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Rome. In Italy, the threshold of one million coronavirus cases since the beginning of the epidemic in February was exceeded on Wednesday. The number of people infected since the outbreak of the pandemic in Italy on February 20 rose to 1,028,424 on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health announced. On Wednesday there was another sharp increase in the number of fatalities. 623…

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Health Minister Anschober expects corona vaccine for all in the second quarter of 2021

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Following the supply agreement between the EU and the pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) is optimistic that it will be possible to vaccinate risk groups and health workers against the coronavirus in the first quarter of 2021. “I assume that the other interested population can then be vaccinated step by step from the second quarter onwards. We are currently preparing the vaccination logistics for this,” he explained in a press release on Wednesday. The Ministry of Health has emphasized that the vaccination should first be…

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Ministries report 7,514 new corona cases in Austria

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11. November 2020 – The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior have reported 7,514 newly registered coronavirus cases (as of 9:30 a.m. today) within the last 24 hours. In total, 172,380 people have tested positive in Austria since the beginning of the pandemic. 3,719 people have to be treated in hospital for the infection, 536 of them in intensive care. 1,564 people have died in connection with Covid-19 according to ministry figures. The most positive test results were recorded in Vienna with 1,427 – due to technical…

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AUSTRIA’s involvement against CORONA: What the miracle vaccine can do

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A novel vaccination is to provide 90 percent protection against the coronavirus. The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Biontech have developed a vaccine that is expected to offer 90 percent protection against corona disease. It has already been tested on 43,500 people. One of them is the Austrian virologist and top researcher Florian Krammer. He cheered: “For the first time we are seeing a vaccine that works. The vaccine uses a completely experimental approach, which involves injecting part of the virus’s genetic code into people, in order to train the immune…

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Main committee extends exit restrictions

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Today, the main committee of the Austrian Parliamentary extended the initial restrictions in force since November 3. This is necessary because according to the legal requirements, the initial restrictions can only be adopted for ten days at a time. All other measures of the partial lockdown have already been decided for four weeks until the end of November. In addition to the governing parties ÖVP and Greens, the SPÖ will also vote for the extension. Meanwhile, the Vienna City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) will present “checkboxes”. These are…

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201,961 new infections in the USA

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Within 24 hours, 201,961 new cases of infection were counted in the USA, as Johns Hopkins University announced on Tuesday evening (local time). The highest level of new infections in the U.S. to date was around 127,000 cases and was recorded last Saturday. However, the current exceeding of the 200,000 case mark is partly due to the late submission of data last weekend. The total number of infection cases in the USA since the beginning of the pandemic has thus increased to around 10.2 million. There were also 1,535 new…

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18,487 new infections in Germany

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In Germany, health authorities have reported 18,487 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours. This is 3155 cases more than on Tuesday. Compared to Wednesday last week, the figure is slightly higher. At that time, the number of reported new infections was 17,214. The peak was reached on Saturday with 23,399 cases reported. The RKI counts a total of 705,687 confirmed infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic (as of November 11, 00:00 hrs). To date, the number of deaths related…

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4 common mistakes when washing your mask

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Over time we all got more or less used to wearing masks. But the more we have integrated it into our everyday life, the more careless many of us become when cleaning the mask. It is now known that corona viruses could survive for several days on certain surfaces. The best cleaning methods for masksThe viruses are killed at a temperature of 60 degrees and above, whether you wash them in the washing machine or by hand. For the latter method, take a bowl, put your used fabric mask in…

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