Month: January 2021

Now the e-vaccination passport is to replace the current paper vaccination passport nationwide by the end of March. The basis for this is a central, national vaccination register in which all vaccination data is stored. The website futurezone.at has summarized the most important information below: What can the e-vaccination certificate do? As with the classic paper vaccination card, the e-vaccination card will in future record all vaccinations that a person has received. This also applies to the Corona vaccination, which consists of two partial vaccinations. In the first stage, individuals…

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After a marathon of talks, the government will decide this weekend on how to proceed with the Corona pandemic. In view of the new virus mutation, there is no longer any thought of easing the lockdown; Carinthia’s Governor Peter Kaiser (SPÖ) expected the lockdown to be extended “well into February” after a meeting of the provinces with the Chancellor. The government is still consulting with experts and social partners on Saturday, and a decision is expected on Sunday. After recently also in Austria more and more suspected cases of the…

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In Austria, about 100 suspected cases of the new British coronavirus variant B 1.1.7. have been registered so far. “These are more or less distributed throughout Austria,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said Friday at a press conference in Vienna. These will be sequenced to obtain final certainty. The department head expects the final results by the middle of next week. “But I would be surprised if we had many negative results.” If fully spread, the mutation is 50 percent more infectious than the previously dominant viral variant, according to current…

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