Month: March 2021

Home pharmacies run out of free tests

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The Chamber of Pharmacists reports that the supply of free antigen tests is stalling. Some new supplies will not be available until next week. “Due to delivery problems with the free living room tests, larger contingents of the tests will only arrive in pharmacies in the course of the coming week,” writes the Austrian Chamber of Pharmacists in a press release. The reason is logistical delays on the world market and lengthy customs clearances. As a result, there are currently delays in subsequent deliveries of the tests to the 1,400…

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Chancellor Kurz promises “everyone over 65 will be vaccinated before the end of April”

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After conference with provincial governors and recommendation of national vaccination panel, Chancellor Kurz gives new details. Johanna Mikl-Leitner, governor of Lower Austria, and Styrian governor Hermann Schützenhöfer already made the case for the use of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in over-65s; since the beginning of the week, the vaccine from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company has already been given to over-65s in Vienna. And since Friday morning it is a done deal. In the morning, the National Immunization Panel (NIG) had also spoken out in favor of the use of Astra Zeneca’s…

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2,668 new corona infections in Austria

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Once again, the number of new infections rises in the course of this week. From Thursday to Friday, 2,688 new Corona infections have been reported. Compared to the beginning of the week, this is more than 1,200 new infections per day during the day. Compared to last Friday, that’s also about 600 more new infections. This also brings the 7-day incidence to 173.62. In addition, there are 1,899 new recoveries. This also brings the number of active cases to 22,544. The last time there were this many active cases was…

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Planned before Easter uncertain

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2,324 new infections were registered in Austria from Wednesday to Thursday, 2,688 from yesterday to today. This is a huge number, Austria’s Health Minister Rudolf Anschober commented on the development yesterday. Equally too high are the recent almost constant increases of over 2,000 infections daily, the health minister said. While a few weeks ago it was said that the rising number of infections was due to increased testing, this is no longer true. According to Anschober, we are dealing with an “actual increase” in the number of infections, which is…

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More than 10,000 new infections and 264 new deaths

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Health offices in Germany have reported 10,580 new Corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. In addition, 264 additional deaths were recorded within 24 hours. This is according to figures released by the RKI on Friday. Exactly a week ago, the RKI had recorded 9997 new infections and 394 new deaths within one day. The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard as of 5:20 a.m., subsequent changes or additions are possible. According to RKI calculations, the number of new infections reported within seven days…

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Data confirms efficacy of Astra Zeneca vaccine in over 65 years old

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There are now increasing data on the efficacy of Astra Zeneca’s Corona vaccine in people over 65. Until now, some national authorities – including in Austria – had too few data on this. That could change soon, when a large study of the Astra Zeneca vaccine with more than 30,000 participants is expected from the United States in the next one to two weeks. In that study, 20,000 received the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and 10,000 received a placebo. Twenty-five percent of the subjects were older than 65 years. In addition, more…

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Following Abraham’s footsteps: Pope Francis visits Iraq

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This is not the first time Pope Francis has visited an Islamic country: he was in Turkey in 2014, followed by Azerbaijan (2016), Egypt (2017) and Morocco and the United Arab Emirates (2019), where he signed a “document of human brotherhood” together with Islamic leaders. And yet the Pope’s visit to Iraq, which begins Friday, is singular in several respects – and not only because of the precarious security situation and the Corona pandemic, which is anything but under control in Iraq. The visit is aimed first of all at…

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Numbers increase massively – gastro opening now unsure

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Not only the new infection numbers are “clearly on the rise”, also the high extent of utilization in the hospitals is “worrying”, health minister Rudolf Anschober showed up on Thursday in a press conference alarmed. In the previous week, hospitals saw a 10 percent increase in Corona patients, and intensive care bed utilization increased by as much as 20 percent. This is a situation “like last October,” Anschober explained. Three of the nine provinces – Lower Austria, Salzburg and Burgenland – are above 200 per 100,000 inhabitants in risk-adjusted 7-day…

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17 percent of all food worldwide ends up in the trash

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About 17 percent of food sold worldwide ended up in the trash in 2019, according to a UN report. That’s 931 million tons of food that ended up in the trash cans of private homes, restaurants, stores and other food service providers, according to the report published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). That’s the equivalent of about 23 million fully loaded trucks that, lined up, would reach seven times around the world, it said. Per Earth citizen, 121 kilograms of food waste was generated at the consumer level,…

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