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201,961 new infections in the USA

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 admin

Within 24 hours, 201,961 new cases of infection were counted in the USA, as Johns Hopkins University announced on Tuesday evening (local time). The highest level of new infections in the U.S. to date was around 127,000 cases and was recorded last Saturday. However, the current exceeding of the 200,000 case mark is partly due to the late submission of data last weekend. The total number of infection cases in the USA since the beginning of the pandemic has thus increased to around 10.2 million. There were also 1,535 new…

18,487 new infections in Germany

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 admin

In Germany, health authorities have reported 18,487 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours. This is 3155 cases more than on Tuesday. Compared to Wednesday last week, the figure is slightly higher. At that time, the number of reported new infections was 17,214. The peak was reached on Saturday with 23,399 cases reported. The RKI counts a total of 705,687 confirmed infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic (as of November 11, 00:00 hrs). To date, the number of deaths related…

4 common mistakes when washing your mask

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 admin

Over time we all got more or less used to wearing masks. But the more we have integrated it into our everyday life, the more careless many of us become when cleaning the mask. It is now known that corona viruses could survive for several days on certain surfaces. The best cleaning methods for masksThe viruses are killed at a temperature of 60 degrees and above, whether you wash them in the washing machine or by hand. For the latter method, take a bowl, put your used fabric mask in…

Is it allowed to hang the mask on the rear view mirror?

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 admin

Does a mouth and nose mask adorn your rearview mirror in the car? An insurance expert explains the risks involved Whether you walk past parked cars or are on the road: Again and again it is noticeable that people have a mouth and nose mask dangling from their rear view mirror. The advantage is obvious. If one has forgotten it at home, one can fall back on the spare mask at the mirror on the way. But is it even allowed to hang it there? Or does that limit road…

6,120 cases! More than 300 infected persons in hospitals

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 admin

The Corona situation in Austria is coming to a head! Once again, there has been a sharp increase in new infections in the last 24 hours. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober recently made it clear that if the corona figures in Austria continue to rise this week, the lockdown “light” in Austria will be tightened. And a tightening was already announced today, Tuesday! Thus, stores will only be open until 19.00 hours from Wednesday onwards. A possible “explosion” of new infections did not occur yesterday, Monday, with “only” 5,600 new cases,…

Majority of Austrians would be willing to be vaccinated

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 admin

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…

Health Minister Anschober: measures will be tightened if no decrease of daily infections

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 admin

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”,…

More than ten million corona infections in the USA

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 admin

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…

Slovakia puts Austria on red list

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 admin

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…