Day: March 13, 2021

New hope: Novavax’s Corona vaccine has 96 percent effectiveness

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After the European Medicines Agency (EMA) already granted approval for the Johnson & Jonson preparation on Thursday, another piece of good vaccine news follows. As reported by leading newspapers in the German speaking countries, U.S. pharmaceutical company Novavax announced that its vaccine has 96 percent efficacy against the variant of origin of COVID-19. According to the study conducted in the UK, the efficacy against the British mutation of the virus is said to be ten percent lower. However, how well the drug did against the South African and Brazilian variants…

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Again more than 3,000 new infections in Austria

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Starting Monday, Vorarlberg as a model region wants to open the gastronomy also in indoor areas, events up to 100 people should be possible again. Nationwide, children and young people are to be allowed to play sports outdoors again from March 15. Against these plans speak the infection numbers. After already reaching nearly 3,000 new infections on Thursday, the 3,000 mark was surpassed for the first time in three months on Friday with 3,126 new infections. The 7-day incidence yesterday was 199.17. In early February, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober cited…

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Filipino group joins church cleaning project in Vienna

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Some members of the Association of Pangasinenses in Austria gathered together to help a cleaning project of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church (Pfarre Herz Jesu) in Vienna’s 21st District, Töllergasse 9. Fr. Joseph Giggenbacher, the parish priest is very glad that a part of the filipino community in Vienna actively participates in church projects and activities in the parish. Before the outbreak of the corona pandemic, the Association of Pangasinenses in Austria had been meeting together in the church and parish hall for their meetings and services in honor…

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Around 1,200 positive Corona self-tests at schools again

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Schools saw a slight decrease in the number of positive Corona self-tests compared to the previous week. Overall, of the 1.5 million tests (previous week: 1.4 million), 1,188 indicated infection (previous week: 1,247). Among the 1.1 million students, 810 received a positive rapid test result, and among teaching and administrative staff, 378 did. Currently, 15 of the 5,800 schools are in Distance Learning due to clustered coronavirus infections, the Ministry of Education told APA. Since the beginning of the summer semester, schools have resumed face-to-face classes. Elementary school students sit…

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Italy enters lockdown again

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Because of again drastically rising numbers with the CoV infections, Italy goes starting into the third Lockdown starting on Monday, March 15: “We have to do it unfortunately with a new wave of the infections”, said the new Prime Minister Mario Draghi yesterday with the attendance of a vaccination center at the Roman Fiumicino airport. Within a week, he said, there had been more than 150,000 new infections, an increase of about 20,000 from the previous week. “These numbers force us to be extremely cautious in order to limit the…

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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca

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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) will be vaccinated with the coronavirus vaccine currently under discussion from the manufacturer AstraZeneca. “I have a clear picture here,” Kurz said. “After there are many people who are worried, I will also get vaccinated with AstraZeneca to show that I have confidence in the vaccine,” the chancellor stressed Friday. AstraZeneca is “used in many countries around the world.” Whether to be vaccinated is a highly personal decision that everyone must make for themselves, Kurz said. Several countries have suspended vaccination with AstraZeneca. Most recently, however,…

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