February 2021 Archives

Vaccination makes infected less contagious

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 admin

According to a study from Israel, Sars-CoV-2-infected people reproduce fewer viruses after the first vaccination dose than unvaccinated people – and would thus be less contagious. If people become infected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 after a Corona vaccination, they apparently reproduce fewer viruses than unvaccinated people – and would thus be less contagious. This is true even after a single vaccination dose, write Israeli researchers in a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed. Clemens Wendtner of the Munich Clinic Schwabing sees the result as a “cause for hope”. It’s…

Tyrol’s Medical Chamber President calls for “all available vaccines”.

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 admin

The president of the Tyrolean Medical Chamber, Artur Wechselberger, has called on the federal government to use all available vaccines that are effective against the mutated virus in Tyrol. He lamented a lack of support from the federal government. He saw it as a challenge for the federal government to develop a strategy on how to deal with the Austrian vaccination concept when mutations call the effectiveness of vaccines into question. After all, the situation could repeat itself at any time in another province and with one of the other…

Virtual Panel Discussion on the “CoViD-19 Vaccination Dilemma”

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 admin

European Network of Filipino Diaspora Austria (ENFiD-Austria) organized a virtual panel discussion on “CoViD-19 Vaccination Dilemma on 28 January 2021 via zoom. Vienna, 28 January 2021 – In an act of unity, CoViD-19 vaccination started across the European Union on 27 December 2020. Yet, to date many are still in a dilemma as to whether to be or not to be vaccinated. Therefore, the European Network of Filipino Diaspora Austria (ENFiD-Austria) organized a virtual panel discussion on “CoViD-19 Vaccination Dilemma on 28 January 2021 via zoom. Chairperson, Ms Maria Zelda…

Massive Corona increase at the end of the week

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 admin

Corona numbers continue to rise rapidly after soft opening steps. On Friday, 1,731 new infections were reported. There were 32 deaths. Corona numbers in Austria remain at a high level. On Wednesday, there were 1,469 new infections, on Thursday, 1,577 new cases were reported Austria-wide and on Friday, 1,731 additional positive results were received by the authorities – an increase of almost 10 percent within 24 hours! The positive findings are distributed among the nine federal states as follows: ➤ Burgenland: 33 ➤ Carinthia: 127 ➤ Lower Austria: 319 ➤…

Highly contagious variant discovered in Brazil

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 admin

A new variant of the coronavirus has been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. This mutant is probably three times more contagious than the original virus, Brazil’s Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello announced yesterday (local time). Despite the strong risk of infection, the minister assured: “Thank God, the analysis has shown that the vaccines are also effective against this variant.” However, the Ministry of Health did not provide data from this analysis so far. Pazuello said infections in the jungle city of Manaus had risen unexpectedly in recent months but were being…

I already had Corona – what can I do now?

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 admin

More than 400,000 people in Austria have survived the Covid-19 virus and are considered “recovered”, but do these people now have any advantages? Wearing an FFP2 mask is necessary wherever it is not possible to comply with the two-meter rule – indoors anyway, but also outdoors at markets, for example. This also applies to recovered or vaccinated persons. Also the distance rule does not spare recovered and/or vaccinated persons. If this regulation is disregarded, a fine of 90.00 euros can be imposed. There is a small “advantage” here for persons…

Corona mutations will be with us for the next 10 years

February 11, 2021 admin

Microbiologist Sharon Peacock expects variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to continue to haunt the world into the early 2030s. “Once we have the virus under control or it mutates itself so that it is no longer virulent and causes disease, we can stop worrying,” Peacock, who leads the U.K.’s coronavirus sample sequencing program, told the BBC’s “Newscast.” “But looking into the future, I think we’ll be doing this (sequencing) for years. We’ll still be doing it 10 years from now, in my opinion.” It is normal and in most cases…

Lockdown in Ireland to be extended until early April

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 admin

In Ireland, the coronavirus lockdown is to be extended until early April. There will be “restrictions on a large scale” until Easter, government leader Micheal Martin told public broadcaster RTE today. Since Christmas, restaurants and pubs have been closed in Ireland, and since New Year’s Day, stores for non-essentials have also been closed. Since the beginning of the year, there have been no more face-to-face classes in schools. Reopening schools and construction projects will be priorities when the government reconsiders lockdown measures, Martin said. Ireland had weathered the first two…

200 positive test at schools in Vienna and Lower Austria

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 admin

Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) gave a positive assessment on Thursday of the use of the new rapid antigen tests at schools in Vienna and Lower Austria. The acceptance among students and parents was great, only one percent had refused the test. In total, 198 of the 470,000 tests were positive on Monday and Wednesday (75 percent count). At the press conference, epidemiologist Gerald Gartlehner pleaded for the reasons for this low number to be ascertained. In the first two rounds of testing on Monday and Wednesday, Vienna accounted for…