21 November 2020 Archives

What happens if you are positive in the mass test

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

With regard to the mass tests for the coronavirus planned for December 5th in Austria, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) sees the uncertainty of antigen tests as “one of the central problems”. “Therefore, we will retest if the results are positive”, the Minister assured on the question of more meaningful PCR or lamp tests and a certain percentage of false positive antigen tests. As with the tests of up to 200,000 teachers on 5/6 December, the entire population should also be able to be tested on a weekend, Anschober said…

Researchers discover new corona symptom

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

Almost a year after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, more and more symptoms are being attributed to Covid-19. If an infection initially seemed to have a similar effect to a common flu, the list of symptoms is becoming longer and longer. Head, nose, throat, lungs, heart, kidneys, stomach, intestines and even toes can be symptoms of corona. Atypical corona symptomResearchers have now discovered a sign that only occurs in men and can be particularly painful. The atypical Corona symptom became noticeable for the first time when a Turkish man…

22,964 new corona infections in Germany

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

In Germany, health authorities have reported 22,964 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours. Compared to the value one week ago, a good 500 more cases were reported. Last Saturday, the number of reported new infections was 22,461. The peak was reached on Friday with 23,648 reported cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted a total of 902,528 confirmed infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany. After the number of new daily infections rose sharply in October and early November, the figure has…

Putin offers vaccine

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

At the G20 summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the international community broad access to the “Sputnik-V” vaccine developed in Russia. His country supported the G20 summit’s decision to make the vaccine available to the entire population of the planet, the 68-year-old said on Saturday at the meeting, which was organized by host Saudi Arabia as a video conference. Russia is ready to make its self-developed vaccines – three different vaccines – available to needy states. Competition among the vaccine manufacturers is inevitable, Putin said. But first of all, the…

Nearly 800 offences punished by police

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

Since the start of the tightened lockdown on Tuesday, the police have penalized 796 violations of the measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic in Austria up to and including yesterday. In 617 cases there were charges and in 171 cases organ mandates according to the Covid 19 measures law, the Ministry of the Interior announced today. Eight further organ mandates were imposed under the Epidemic Law. In Vienna yesterday, among others, the operator of a punch stand was reported. The punch was sold from a store at the Graben in…

6,611 new corona cases in 24 hours, over 100 deaths

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

On Saturday there were again numerous new corona infections. 6,611 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. From Friday to Saturday there were a total of 6,611 new corona infections throughout Austria. 104 people died in connection with the virus. The new infections by federal states: Burgenland: 194 Carinthia: 444 Lower Austria: 919 Upper Austria: 1,569 Salzburg: 612 Styria: 802 Tyrol: 686 Vorarlberg: 461 Vienna: 924 On Friday, health authorities reported 6,708 new infections and 108 corona deaths. hp with reports from sozialministerium.at

Setbacks for Trump in the fight for US presidential election

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

US President Donald Trump suffered setbacks on Friday in his attempt to overturn the presidential election. The authorities in Georgia also declared the Democrat Joe Biden the winner in the state after the second count. In Nevada, Judge Gloria Sturman refused an injunction from Trump’s campaign team to stop certification of the results. She spoke of a “shocking motion. Two senior Republican state legislators from Michigan said after a meeting with Trump at the White House that they did not yet have any information that would lead to a change…

Corona: source of infection already unclear in 81 percent of cases

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

Only ten percent of infections are asymptomatic.On Friday the Corona Commission published its indicators for the risk classification for the currently valid traffic light system – all of Austria remains red. The indicators show that, according to the latest data for calendar week 46 from November 9 to 15, the source of infection was unknown in 81 percent of SARS-CoV-2 cases throughout Austria, and in only 19 percent of cases – i.e. less than a fifth – was the infection clarified. In Upper Austria only 9 percent clarifiedUpper Austria and…

Expert: Enough corona vaccine for all Austrians by summer

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 admin

Although the approval is still the great unknown, from the schedules of the manufacturers of the seven vaccines for which there are contracts, it is realistic that by the summer there will be so much available that anyone in Austria who wishes to be vaccinated can be vaccinated, said Clemens Martin Auer, Covid Special Representative in the Ministry of Health, on Friday in the ORF Lunchtime Journal. The first vaccines could already arrive in January. First old people’s homes and nursing homesHowever, this depends on the European regulatory authority. Here,…