Month: January 2021

Ex-President Trump was treated with an antibody cocktail from the US company Regeneron during his Corona illness. Now Germany has secured 200,000 doses. Donald Trump called it a “miracle” and a “cure.” In no time, he promised, he would make it available to the whole world. The talk is of a Corona drug called Regeneron. After the ex-president contracted the corona virus in October, he was treated – among other things – with Regeneron’s antibody cocktail and recovered comparatively quickly. Now Germany has secured 200,000 doses of the new Corona…

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The number of new Corona infections in Austria remains at a high level. In the past 24 hours, 1,202 new cases were reported, the health and interior ministries reported Sunday. Given that there is often less testing and reporting on weekends, one cannot really speak of a decrease. Since the start of the pandemic, 404,714 people in Austria have contracted SARS-CoV-2, and 7,418 have not survived Covid-19. Most new infections within the past 24 hours were reported in Vienna with 274 cases, followed by Lower Austria with 197 and Styria…

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The South African version has arrived in Austria, the British variant is spreading. Tougher rules apply from tomorrow. An overview. FFP2 mask requirement and the two-meter distance – Numbers of Covid infections remain high: 1626 new infections were reported yesterday, another 59 people have died.One reason for the low effectiveness of the collective hibernation may be the British mutation that is spreading in Austria – and this is, as reported, not only far more infectious, but according to the latest findings probably even more deadly. This was announced by British…

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More than 20 countries with particularly high CoV infection rates are subject to stricter rules for entry into Germany as of today. These high-risk areas include the neighboring Czech Republic, the vacation destinations Portugal, Spain and Egypt, and the USA. Anyone wishing to enter Germany from these countries must be able to present a negative coronavirus test (PCR test) no more than 48 hours old at the border. According to the German Interior Ministry, the tests are systematically checked at airports and seaports. In border areas with other EU states…

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Those who violates the obligation to wear a FFP2 mask, must expect in the future with an organ penalty mandate of 25 euros. This is provided for in a new regulation of the Ministry of Health, which was announced yesterday. Already on Thursday, the main committee of the National Council had passed the new ordinance to extend and tighten the lockdown. In addition to the extended distance requirement from one to two meters, the exit restrictions were thus also supplemented by the obligation to wear FFP2 masks in trade, public…

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