Month: November 2020

Record number on a Sunday: 5,933 new infections – 24 deaths

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In the past 24 hours, 5,933 new infections were reported – more than ever before on a Sunday. There are already 459 patients in the intensive care unit. The figures for the federal states in detail: Burgenland: 215Carinthia: 195Lower Austria: 1.370Upper Austria: 1.608Salzburg: 144Styria: 752Tyrol: 808Vorarlberg: 319Vienna: 522 After there was a new record number of new infections in Austria on Saturday, the number of new cases on Sunday – as always on the weekend – has decreased significantly. 5,933 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours. The…

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Already more than 40,000 dead in France

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In view of the massive increase in corona infections, there is a growing fear in France that hospitals will be overloaded. In France, more than 40,000 people have already died of corona infection. With 306 new deaths within 24 hours, the number of victims in the country rose to 40,169 corona deaths on Saturday, according to the health authorities. The number of new infections on Saturday was not reported; the day before, it had reached a new high with more than 60,000 infections within 24 hours. In view of the…

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Corona explosion: intensive care units soon at the limit

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The situation in hospitals is becoming increasingly dramatic. For the first time since yesterday, more than 3,000 patients are undergoing Covid treatment. 432 have to be treated in an intensive care unit. Resources have long since become scarce. A collapse is feared by many experts. Since yesterday, not a single intensive care bed is free in the state hospital of Hohenems (Vorarlberg). New patients are immediately diverted to Feldkirch. The problem: it is already the second fully occupied hospital in the Ländle. Dornbirn is also at its limit. More than…

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Trump repeated: I won the election

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US President Donald Trump continues to see himself as the victor and repeated misleading and unsubstantiated claims in the evening. The entire tweet was written in capital letters – one of Trump’s ways of showing anger or rage: “The election observers were not allowed to count. I won the election, got 71,000,000 legal votes”. “Bad things” had happened “that our election observers were not allowed to see. Twitter immediately gave the tweet a warning. Trump does not want to acknowledge a victory of his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the…

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“I will restore the soul of America” – Joe Biden

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The era of Donald Trump (74) is over. At 2:39 European Time time (20:39 local time) last night, his successor Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (77) addressed his fellow countrymen and also the whole world. The 46th “elected president” of the USA promised in his first speech after his historic election victory: “I will restore the soul of America! This is the time to heal.” He reached out his hand to the 71 million voters who had voted against him and for Donald Trump: “I don’t see any blue states. I…

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SITUATION IN EUROPE: Strict rules and mass testing against coronavirus

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In view of further increasing corona numbers, several European countries have tightened their protective measures against the virus, in some cases drastically. In Greece, a three-week lockdown for the entire country with a night-time curfew has been in force since Saturday. Poland imposed further restrictions. Lithuania is going into a partial lockdown for an initial three weeks. In Latvia the Corona emergency applies from Monday. In Lithuania, the number of new corona infections reached a peak on the first day of the partial lockdown. The health authority in Vilnius reported…

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Breaking News – Biden wins US election

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It was a shaky game, but in the end it was enough for Joe Biden. The Democrat wins the presidential election and becomes the 46th President of the United States of America. This was reported on Saturday by CNN and the news agency AP. Election loser Donald Trump has to vacate the White House after only one term in office. It took four days of counting before even large US media companies dared to go public with a result. Finally, on Saturday, CNN and AP reported that Biden had won…

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New construction site on the Tangente

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A new construction site has been set up on the Vienna Südosttangente (A 23), which will obstruct traffic until the end of 2022. One of the lanes of the beltway in the direction of Stadlau has been closed during the renewal of the St. Marx elevated road. If you drive north from the Gürtel onto the “Tangente”, you have two options so far: The inner ramp leads you directly onto the tracks towards Kagran, the other one towards the eastern highway. The inner lane is now closed because it has…

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New infections in Germany rise to over 23,000

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In Germany, the number of coronavirus infections continues to rise rapidly. The Robert Koch Institute today reported 23,399 new cases within one day – more than ever before. In total, there were 642,488 infections in Germany. The number of deaths in connection with the virus rose by 130 to 11,096. Records had already been set on the previous days. Yesterday, the number of new infections exceeded the threshold of 20,000 for the first time with 21,506 cases. To contain the spread of the virus, a partial lockdown has been in…

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