Month: November 2020

Majority of Austrians would be willing to be vaccinated

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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

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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

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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

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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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Coronavirus: Again 5,593 new infections within 24 hours

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Most new cases were again in Upper Austria. The Austrian health authorities have registered 5,593 new infections with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Although this is 340 fewer than reported on Sunday, it is more than 1,500 higher than on Monday of the previous week. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, there have been 158,746 positive test results since the beginning of the pandemic. With 1,454 people who have died of or with the coronavirus and 94,627 people who have…

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Promising result: Corona vaccine to provide 90 percent protection

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An effective corona vaccine in Europe and the USA is within reach: On Monday, the Mainz-based company Biontech and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer were the first Western manufacturers to publish promising results of a study that is crucial for approval.For the first time, interim results from the study phase, which is crucial for approval, have been published for a corona vaccine that is crucial for Europe. According to these data, the Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech announced on Monday that its vaccine offers more than 90 percent protection against the disease…

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Positive data – BioNTech plans to file for approval of corona vaccine

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Frankfurt/New York, Nov 09 (Reuters) – The Mainz-based biotech company BioNTech is close to a breakthrough with its potential corona vaccine. BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer presented positive efficacy data from the pivotal study with the vaccine on Monday. According to these data, the risk of contracting Covid-19 was more than 90 percent lower for study participants who received the vaccine than without the vaccination. BioNTech and Pfizer are thus the first companies worldwide to present successful data from the study with a corona vaccine, which is crucial for…

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Prison uprising in the Philippines: Three dead and 64 injured

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In a riot in a prison in the Philippines today, three inmates were killed and 64 others injured. According to authorities, it was initially unclear what triggered the violence in the high-security prison New Bilibid Prison in the city of Muntinlupa near Manila. Only in October, nine people were killed in clashes between rival gangs in the prison. Whether the two incidents are connected was still unclear. The notorious New Bilibid Prison has 18,000 inmates. However, surveillance cameras are only installed at strategic locations, and the prisoners are not guarded…

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13,363 new corona infections in Germany

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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was notified of 13,363 new corona cases within 24 hours. That is about 2,650 cases less than on Sunday. On Mondays, the recorded case numbers are usually lower, partly because less testing takes place at the weekend. Last Monday, the number of reported new infections was 12,097. The peak was reached on Saturday with 23,399 reported cases. According to the RKI, a total of 671,868 people have become infected with SARS-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic (as of 09.11., 00.00 hrs). The number of…

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