Month: June 2021

Norway donates one million vaccine doses to poorer countries

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Norway has donated another million vaccine doses to the Covax immunization program to be given to poorer countries. “There is an urgent need to vaccinate health workers and vulnerable groups in countries with weaker health systems,” Development Minister Dag-Inge Ulstein said today, according to a statement. The program was established in 2020 to provide rapid access to CoV vaccines to all countries in the world. The donation is options Norway purchased through Covax last year. Thus, they are not vaccine doses scheduled in Norway’s vaccination program. WHO: 190 million doses…

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Coronavirus vaccination schedule: Minors will be vaccinated before school year begins

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Over the summer, children and adolescents aged twelve to fifteen are to be broadly vaccinated against the coronavirus, Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) said Wednesday. After the vaccine Comirnaty of BioNTech/Pfizer was approved in Austria also for minors, this is to offer to the pupils before beginning of the new school year starting from autumn a greatest possible protection. 340,000 children and adolescents fall into this group. Mückstein assumes that around 200,000 will take advantage of this offer. The goal is to have “as undisturbed attendance as possible in September”.…

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Corona variants named after Greek letters

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WHO has decided to name the different coronavirus variants after Greek letters in the future. Naming the variants after the country where they were discovered was “stigmatizing and discriminatory,” it said. The different variants of coronavirus should in the future be named after the letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatizing the countries where they first appeared. As the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in Geneva on Monday, this applies to variants that have been classified as “of concern” or “of interest.” The Greek letters are not intended to…

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400 new corona infections in Austria

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From Tuesday to Wednesday, there were 400 new infections in Austria. Compared to the previous week (445), this is a minus of 45 cases. This also brings the 7-day incidence down to 33.36. There were also 561 new recovered cases, so the number of active cases also decreased to 4,657. In addition, there are six deaths related to Covid-19. A total of 110,245 new PCR tests were performed in the past 24 hours. This puts the positive rate at 0.36 percent. The new infections in the provincesVienna: 158Lower Austria: 80Upper…

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How safe are the vaccines against the coronavirus?

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Within a few months, various biotechnology companies around the world have developed vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Typically, it can take 15 to 20 years for manufacturers to bring a vaccine to market approval. In the current case of vaccine development against thecoronavirus, it has been – and continues to be – faster. This is also due to the fact that experts have new technologies at their disposal and have been able to build on findings from other vaccine projects against related viruses. In an unprecedented effort, researchers around the world have…

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Vaccination in Austria intensifies

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More and more Austrians want to be vaccinated. This is shown by the latest data from the Chancellery and the Ministry of Health. Last year, only one-third of the population aged 16 and older was willing to protect themselves with a shot against Corona. Since then, the proportion has risen extremely steeply. Currently, it is already more than 70%. Of those over 65, 76% already want to be protected. Second big rushThe second big rush to vaccinate is just getting underway. On Monday, the EU also released the Biontech-Pfizer vaccine…

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THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Coronavirus worldwide

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At London’s largest airport, Heathrow, arrivals from Corona high-risk countries and other arrivals will no longer meet. One terminal will be reserved for flights from countries on the British government’s so-called red list. These countries include India, among others. Only Britons or residents of the UK will be allowed to enter the UK from these countries – but first they will have to go into hotel quarantine for ten days at their own expense. Previously, there had been complaints that arrivals from the high-risk countries had stood for hours in…

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Do Corona recovered patients have lifelong immunity?

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Having passed through a corona infection can protect those who have recovered from being re-infected. But for how long? A U.S. study raises hopes that immune protection after mild courses lasts significantly longer than previously assumed. However, there are already initial doubts about this. Anyone infected with Corona automatically develops antibodies that protect them against the virus once the disease has been overcome – at least for a certain time. How long this protection actually lasts is still uncertain. Experts fear that the body’s immune response will weaken relatively quickly.…

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Virologist: heat can falsify rapid tests

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According to a Charité virologist, the validity of corona rapid and self-tests can be relatively easily affected by high temperatures and temperature fluctuations. Users, as well as sellers and providers of such tests, should be sure to observe the storage temperature specified in the package insert and be aware of the limitations, said Jan Felix Drexler of the Institute of Virology at Berlin University Hospital. “It should not get too hot. Self-tests should not be left directly by the window in the sun or carried around in your pants pocket…

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