Month: March 2021

For almost a year, more than 168 million children worldwide have been out of school because of pandemic measures, according to UNICEF. 214 million children have missed more than three-quarters of their classes, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported today. UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore called the global lockdown a “catastrophic education crisis.” According to the report, 14 countries were largely in lockdown from March 2020 to February 2021. Two-thirds of those countries belong to Latin America and the Caribbean and collectively have nearly 98 million schoolchildren. In schools, children…

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In Vienna, about 500 people who were on a waiting list have been vaccinated so far. When doses remained, they were contacted spontaneously, APA reports. In Vienna, those willing to be vaccinated can also be put on the waiting list via the online preregistration platform when registering. This means that if doses are left over from a Corona vaccination campaign, they are contacted spontaneously. So far, around 500 people have received an injection as a result, a spokesman for City Health Councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) told APA on Tuesday. Registered…

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After the explosive growth during the Corona crisis, the video conferencing service Zoom is expecting strong growth again this year. The company is targeting revenue growth of at least 42 percent for the fiscal year just ended. Investors celebrated the fresh quarterly figures and the forecast with a share price jump of at times around nine percent in after-hours trading on Monday. In the past fiscal year, which ended in late January, sales jumped from $623 million to $2.65 billion (2.20 billion euros). The big question is how much further…

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Since the first relaxations of the current Corona lockdown a good three weeks ago, some 15,800 charges and organ penalty mandates have been laid across Austria for violations of Covid regulations, ORF’s “Morgenjournal” reported. That’s an average of just over 750 police penalties daily. The daily average is thus slightly above the values of last spring from mid-March to mid-May, it said. “In the foreground there is of course the minimum distance, on the other hand, not wearing a FFP2 mask. But we have now also, for example, at the…

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Two months after the vaccination launch, just under 660,000 vaccinations have been administered in Austria. However, it is still a long way from the target of 17 percent by the end of March. Two months after the vaccination launch in December, less than one-third of people over 85 in Austria have received their first Corona vaccination. This is shown by data from the Ministry of Health updated on Monday. Even from the February declared goal of a vaccination coverage rate of 17 percent by the end of March, the government…

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The CoV infection figures reported worldwide are on the rise again. After six weeks of declining, there is now an increase again, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today in Geneva. Apart from Africa and the Western Pacific region, there was an upward trend everywhere, he said. “This is disappointing, but not surprising.” Causes could be CoV loosening and more contagious variants of the virus – “and people becoming less careful,” Tedros said. The WHO chief again urged the international community not to rely on vaccination alone.…

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