Moderna vaccine shipments started in Europe

U.S. pharmaceutical company Moderna today began shipping its coronavirus vaccine in Europe. The company made the announcement in Frankfurt, Germany. A large international logistics company will distribute the active ingredient, which is produced in a pharmaceutical factory in Switzerland, to the individual national states, it said. For each country, there will be a central warehouse to which the contractually agreed vaccine doses will be delivered. In the warehouses, the respective state authorities would take over and organize further distribution, Moderna said. The company did not provide further details. The EU…

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WHO calls for global vaccination start in 100 days at latest

Coronavirus vaccination for health workers and people at particular risk should begin in all countries around the world within the next 100 days. This was demanded by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Geneva today. Ghebreyesus repeatedly criticized “vaccination nationalism” – the fact that wealthy countries have secured virtually all the vaccine doses available, while low- and middle-income countries have hardly launched any vaccination campaigns. Another problem in many places is that many countries are unable to store sensitive vaccines such as those produced…

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Corona vaccination schedule for Vienna – who, when and where

As of January 18, all Viennese can register for a Corona vaccination. A detailed overview of the procedure. The health department of the city of Vienna gives Stadtpolitik Wien the details of the vaccination schedule. On January 18, a pre-registration platform will be activated on impfservice.wien. Already at the end of January, the vaccination of Viennese outside the institutionalized sectors will begin in 12 vaccination centers and a new vaccination street. In the upcoming rollout of vaccinations, the city will receive about 20,000 doses per week, which will be vaccinated…

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Obligation to register when entering Austria from Friday

Starting Friday, an entry regulation comes into force. One must register online before traveling. This also applies to Austrians. The Foreign Ministry sent out a corresponding information to Austrians abroad on Monday afternoon. The quarantine obligation after entry remains in effect until further notice. Only after five days one can free oneself. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, commuters, transients, and persons arriving for urgent family matters that cannot be postponed, such as a funeral, will neither have to undergo the ten-day quarantine nor register. Individuals entering from a…

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German tourism commissioner: travel hardly possible before May 2021

Vacation travel during the Easter vacations will continue to be very limited in the view of the German government’s tourism commissioner, Thomas Bareiß (CDU), because of the pandemic. “I think that travel is something that is still very difficult to imagine for the next two or three months,” he said today on RTL and ntv’s “Frühstart” program. He does not expect things to improve until the second quarter, he said. “From Pentecost onward, it will be better again. And I hope that then the summer will be a very big…

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“Do it yourself” Corona testing now available

Easy and fast access to Corona testing is the order of the day. In front of this hospital, you can already get tested at a “COVID Automaten.” Anyone who finds a nasal swab uncomfortable and/or wants to take a proper PCR test instead of a rapid test can already do so quickly and easily at a vending machine in Austria. So far, however, only at one location, the Tauernklinikum in Zell am See (Salzburg). There, a “do it yourself” machine is located in front of the entrance, where you can…

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1,536 new corona infections in Austria

1,536 new infections with coronavirus in Austria were reported on Monday. The number of deaths related to SARS-CoV-2 increased by 24 to 6,747 within 24 hours, according to figures released by the health and interior ministries. Per 100,000 population, there have been 75.8 deaths from or with Covid-19 so far. The number of positive test results rose to a total of 382,258 (Jan. 11, 2021, 9:30 a.m.), while that of people recovered from infection increased by 1,781 to 355,530. The number of active cases thus fell below the 20,000 threshold…

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British mutation now also in Russia and Mexico

The new form of coronavirus that has recently spread mainly in England has now been detected for the first time in Russia. The mutation form was detected in a traveler returning from Britain, the head of the health protection agency said Sunday. The variant has also been detected in Mexico. In Mexico, authorities in the northern sub-state of Tamaulipas said the new coronavirus variant, was detected in a 56-year-old man. He had flown from Mexico City to Matamoros, immediately adjacent to the U.S. border, on Dec. 29, said Tamaulipas Health…

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After lockdown: tests for events, hospitals, homes and hotels

It is true that tests will in all likelihood continue to play a role in the future as far as everyday life is concerned. But all of this is to be embedded in a testing concept that will only be applied after the lockdown. So anyone who doesn’t want to do without certain things in the near future will probably have to present a negative Corona test that is no more than 48 hours old. This will most likely include events with more than twenty people, as well as visits…

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