Month: December 2020

Pfizer BioNTech vaccine: efficacy, side effects, and vaccine reactions

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Austria is about to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s first coronavirus vaccine on Dec. 26. Here is an overview of the most important questions about the effect, side effects, vaccination reactions and protective effects. Approval in the EU“There are 9,750 doses coming. The delivery is made immediately to all federal states. One day later, vaccination can begin,” said Pfizer Austria CEO Robin Rumler in an interview with APA. Austria could initially receive up to 3.5 million doses of the vaccine. A certain protective effect against the corona virus is already given seven days…

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Approval sought for AstraZeneca vaccine in the United Kingdom – Argentina allows Russian vaccine Sputnik V

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Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have applied for approval in the UK for the Corona vaccine they are developing. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was “delighted” that data on the vaccine, “developed here in the UK,” had been “fully” submitted to the health regulator MHRA. Meanwhile, the Biontech and Pfizer vaccine has been given 500,000 times in the UK. However, the British government is relying primarily on the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. Orders have already been placed for 100 million doses of this vaccine. Production…

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New high in Corona deaths reached in Germany – Negative records were also broken again in the USA

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The Robert Koch Institute reports a new high in Germany with 962 deaths within 24 hours related to the coronavirus. A total of 27,968 deaths were thus registered, the RKI said Wednesday. The previous high of 952 deaths had been recorded last Wednesday at the start of the hard lockdown. 24,740 more people tested positive. That’s about 5,000 more than the previous day, and about 3,000 fewer than a week ago. At that time, there were follow-up reports from Sachsen. The total number of detected infections thus rises to over…

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British virus mutation not yet found in Austria

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The British coronavirus mutation has not yet been found in Austria. “There has been no finding so far,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) said today. However, the Academy of Science and the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) would “very strongly carry out sequencing.” These investigations have been intensified, the health minister said. Results would usually be available after a week, he said. “If there is a finding, that will of course be published,” Anschober stated. The new variant in Great Britain most likely makes the virus more easily…

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First Corona injections will be adminsitered to at-risk patients over 80 years old

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At 9 a.m. on December 27, the vaccine against the coronavirus will be administered for the first time in Austria – at MedUni Vienna. Chancellor Kurz speaks of a gamechanger, yet more challenging months lie ahead. The pandemic does not end with Christmas, nor with the turn of the year, but there are “still challenging months ahead.” He said that people had always known that “the fall and winter would be tough,” but they had also always said that the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus would be a…

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2,131 new corona infections in Austria

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The number of new infections is rising slightly again. But there are also 3,326 new recovered since Tuesday.In Austria, there are again 2,131 new Corona infections since Tuesday. This means that the number of new infections has again risen above 2,000 per day, against the trend. From Tuesday to Wednesday, there are also 3,326 new convalescents. Since the number of new recoveries is higher than the number of new infections, the number of active cases is also decreasing. However, there were also 114 new Corona deaths in the past 24…

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RECIPES FOR KEEPS – featuring all-time Filipino and international recipes

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Vienna, Austria – Food plays a major role in promoting a country’s national identity and culture. But while millions of Filipinos live and work in countries around the world–with a considerable number employed in the hospitality industry–Filipino cuisine has yet to make its mark overseas. Recipe for keeps aims to change that. To promote and encourage greater appreciation of Filipino cooking traditions,  ENFID-Austria (the European Network of Filipino Diaspora) came out with Recipes for keeps and aims  to boost the Philippines’ standing among the world’s best cuisines. The book  has…

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New coronavirus strain in the UK: Is there cause for concern

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The data from England prove what went through the media: The virus is spreading at breakneck speed – “Unfortunately, it doesn’t look good,” Germany’s best-known virologist Christian Drosten writes about it. But there is also good news: Contact reduction also helps in this case, says Drosten. In other words, the mutation does not currently change anything, as Hans-Peter Hutter, an environmental physician at MedUni Vienna, explains. Also, according to the English data, there were only six deaths out of 900 infected people, which confirms that the course is not made…

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Coronavirus Vaccination for Minister Anschober “huge opportunity”.

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On Monday, the first Covid-19 vaccine was approved in the EU – according to Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens), we are now facing a “huge opportunity”. By summer, “everyone who wants it” should have the opportunity to be vaccinated in Austria, Anschober said on ZIB2. Right at the beginning, Anschober called the vaccination a gift. In the spring, people had still dreamed of being vaccinated against the coronavirus. The goal, he said, is to achieve a vaccination coverage rate of 50 percent by summer. Austria will start vaccinations on December…

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