Year: 2020

Current corona figures: 6,668 cases and more than 100 deaths in one day

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The 7-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants was below 500 on Friday for the first time in two weeks. The daily updated overview of all corona figures for Austria. The daily number of new infections in Austria has stagnated for days at around 7,000 cases. For Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) this means the continuation of “stagnation at a dramatically high level”. From Thursday to Friday, the number of new infections was slightly lower – 6,668 cases were reported. This means that 76,644 are currently infected in Austria. For the second…

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PLAN FOR MASS TESTING IS READY: 7 million corona tests before Christmas in Austria

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The first corona mass tests are scheduled to start as early as the beginning of December. First of all, teachers are to be tested. In a first step, 7 million rapid antigen tests have already been ordered. Everyone should have the right to one or two tests, in a second phase further tests will be ordered. The costs are estimated at 500 million euros behind closed doors. “Cheaper than a lockdown,” is what the government is saying. Slovakia has succeeded in reducing the replication factor (who infects how many) from…

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Eldest son of Donald Trump tested positive

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The oldest son of US President Donald Trump has been infected with the novel corona virus. Donald Trump Jr. tested positive for the pathogen at the beginning of the week, his spokesman announced yesterday (local time). As soon as the 42-year-old received the test result, he was placed in quarantine. The son of the president did not show any Covid-19 symptoms, his spokesman said. A few hours earlier, the CoV infection of Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy Giuliani, had become public. The son of Trump’s lawyer works in the…

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Christmas lights switched on in Vienna

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Although the corona virus has put a damper on Christmas markets – at least for now – Vienna wants to spread at least a little pre-Christmas flair. That’s why Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) and Vienna’s head of the Economic Chamber Walter Ruck switched on the traditional Christmas lightsrecently at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz in the city center. 31 shopping streets will remain appropriately decorated until January. The costs for the lighting will be borne jointly by the city, the chamber and the businesses via the shopping street associations. “In these very challenging times,…

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Coronavirus: A Covid-19 death in Europe every 17 seconds

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The World Health Organization (WHO) complains of a growing number of corona deaths in Europe. In the past two weeks, the number of deaths associated with Covid-19 disease has increased by 18 percent, said Hans Kluge, Director of the WHO European Region, on Thursday. More than 29,000 deaths were recorded last week, which means that every 17 seconds one person in the European Region dies from Covid-19. The fact that 4,500 lives are currently lost to Covid-19 per day is avoidable, said Kluge. Those who adhere to guidelines and take…

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WHO advises against corona disease according to Remdesivir report

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According to a report, the World Health Organization (WHO) advises against the use of the once promising drug Remdesivir for covid-19 diseases. After careful consideration, a WHO panel of experts concluded that the drug “has no significant impact on mortality or other important effects on patients, such as the need for artificial respiration or the time to recovery,” wrote the British Medical Journal. The article, which was published on Friday, also stated that it was not excluded that the drug could also cause harm. And then there are the costs.…

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Record number of new infections in Germany

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In Germany, health authorities have reported 23,648 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours. This means that a peak was reached on Friday, according to the RKI. On Friday one week ago, the previous peak value of 23,542 cases was reached. Compared to Thursday, the number of newly reported cases on Friday rose by a good 1,000. The RKI counted a total of 879,564 confirmed infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic. The number of deaths related to the virus rose…

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Coronavirus: BioNTech considers vaccine delivery in December possible

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The co-founder of the vaccine developer BioNTech, Ugur Sahin, considers a delivery of the corona vaccine possible before the end of this year. It is “within the realm of possibility that we may be able to deliver the vaccine in December,” Sahin said in an interview with the news agency AFP on Thursday. “But everyone really has to work very, very closely and intensively together. The vaccine developed by BioNTech and the U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is one of the most promising products in the fight against the pandemic. Sahin…

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More than 2,200 corona deaths within 24 hours in the USA

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In the USA, more than 2,200 people died within 24 hours as a result of corona infection. According to a census published on Thursday evening, there were also more than 200,100 new corona virus infections nationwide. Due to the sharp increase in the number of new infections, several states have now tightened their corona measures again. In Mexico, more than 100,000 people have died of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Because of the corona pandemic, the health authority CDC strongly advised U.S. citizens not to travel to the…

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