Day: January 26, 2021

Apple most valuable brand in the world

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The US company Apple is the most valuable brand in the world. This is the result of a study published on Tuesday by the brokerage firm Brand Finance. According to the study, Amazon and Google, also based in the U.S., follow in second and third place. “A brand is first of all an intangible asset, we try to give it a value,” the director general of Brand Finance, Bertrand Chovet, told the AFP news agency in this regard. The basis for this, he said, is on the one hand the…

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Over 100,000 deaths in the UK

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The number of deaths related to coronavirus infection in the United Kingdom today surpassed 100,000. According to the U.K. Department of Health, the number of deaths increased by another 1,631, reaching 100,162. The UK, which has a population of around 67 million, is the first country in Europe to exceed this mark. A sustained success in the fight against the coronavirus is expected to come from the vaccination campaign that is already in full swing in the UK. According to government figures, 6.9 million people have already received a first…

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Lockdown decision to be announced on 1st day of vacations

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Early next week, the extension of the hard lockdown could be announced. After a marathon discussion by the federal government on the Corona situation on Monday, a decision on when the lockdown should really end was postponed. Only in the coming week they want to announce a decision. According to the Austrian free newspaper “Heute”, the decision will be made on Monday – at the same time as the first day of the semester break in Vienna and Lower Austria. It will then be clear whether the lockdown will remain…

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Survey: Austrians’ willingness to be vaccinated increased significantly

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Austrians’ attitudes toward Corona vaccination have changed in recent months. According to a survey, just under half of respondents currently want to be vaccinated “as soon as possible.” According to a recent survey of 1,500 people, the willingness of people in Austria to be vaccinated in January is again significantly higher than it was last time. After a decline in October and December 2020, when only just under a third said “I will have myself vaccinated as soon as possible,” the current figure is 47 percent, which is even higher…

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Great Britain counts more than 100,000 deaths

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More than 100,000 people in the United Kingdom have died in connection with the coronavirus since the pandemic began. By mid-January, nearly 99,000 people in England and Wales had Covid-19 listed on their death certificates, the UK Statistics Authority said today. The U.K. is home to about 67 million people. Since then, several thousand deaths have been added across the U.K., according to official government figures. The country recorded the world’s highest daily CoV death rate after a sharp rise in case numbers linked to the new variant B.1.1.7 in…

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1,417 new cases: New infections remain high

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Despite strict lockdowns, the number of new infections in Austria doesn’t really want to go down. Since Monday, 1,417 more SARS COV-2 infections have been registered in Austria, according to figures from the Interior and Health Ministries (as of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday). This was slightly below the average of 1,531 new infections per day over the past seven days. Compared to Monday, 64 people were added who died from or with the coronavirus. This brings the number of deaths related to Covid 19 disease to 7,515 since the pandemic began.…

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“‘Lockdown light’ fails to break infection wave

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Only when at least 40 percent of the population is vaccinated does a “soft” lockdown take effect. Mathematical models show that a “lockdown light” will not take effect until at least 40 percent of the population has been immunized. Until then, the researchers conclude, tough measures, including school closures, will be effective in combating the pandemic. Even with optimistic assumptions, a “soft” lockdown cannot break the spread of Covid-19. This is the conclusion reached by a research group led by computer scientist Robert Elsässer at the University of Salzburg. Simulations…

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1.5 million over 65 years old given free FFP2 masks

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As of Monday, 1.5 million over-65s in Austria have each received ten FFP2 masks free by mail, according to the Health Ministry. Free masks for people over 65“By January 27, this process will be completed and thus 17 million masks will have been delivered to 1.7 million people,” it said in a statement. Social institutions have also been supplied. “Our common goal is to ensure the best possible safe participation of the elderly population in social life. With the free FFP2 masks, we are protecting this particularly hard-hit group during…

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Pandemic: rich get richer, poor get poorer

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Around the world, economic inequality threatens to worsen in all countries at the same time due to the Corona pandemic. The organization Oxfam published its inequality report on Monday, stating that billionaires continue to profit “despite the pandemic,” while the world’s poorest continue to be left behind. Oxfam published the report on the occasion of the start of the World Economic Forum, which is taking place for the first time completely digitally instead of in Davos. For the report, the organization had nearly 300 economists from 79 countries surveyed. According…

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