Month: August 2021

Austria faces up to five degrees more by 2100

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) once again warns of the devastating effects of unchecked climate change.The extent to which global warming has also reached Austria is shown by the comprehensive statistics of the ZAMG. According to these statistics, the temperature in Austria has risen by around two degrees since the beginning of industrialization. If the trend is not reversed, the warming will be at least five degrees by the year 2100. The extent to which these two degrees are already having an impact in Austria can be seen…

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Marie and Jakob were the most popular baby names in 2020

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According to Statistics Austria, Marie and Jakob topped the hit list of first names for newborns in 2020.This is shown by an analysis of the first names (in original spelling, without special characters) of all 40,669 girls and 42,934 boys born that year. For girls, parents chose 734 times (1.8 percent) the name Marie, for boys 794 times (1.8 percent) the name Jakob, reported Statistics Austria in a release on Monday. In 2019, Emma and Maximilian still won. “Marie is the top climber among the most popular baby names of…

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BioNTech to provide booster with latest Corona vaccine

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Biopharma company BioNTech advocates for a possible booster vaccination with its existing vaccine. Antibody levels would have been significantly higher after a third vaccination. Initial data on third Corona vaccination“We think right now it’s best to proceed with a booster dose for the existing strain of the virus to get the situation under control,” company CEO Ugur Sahin said Monday. Patients who received a third dose of the same Corona vaccine showed significantly higher antibody levels than after the second dose, he said. Corona vaccine not to be adapted for…

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Corona vaccination without appointment for over 47,000 people in Vienna

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Vaccination against the Corona virus without registration or appointment – all that is needed is an ID card and the e-card – is proving very popular in the federal capital. More than 47,000 Viennese have already been reached, the city of Vienna announced on Monday as published by the Austrian Press Agency (APA). The decentralized vaccination offer is further expanded, “Impfzuckerln” would not be needed for the time being, it was said from the office of Health City Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ). Since last Wednesday, two vaccination buses have been…

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All out Vaccination campaign in Vienna

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Next Monday the vaccination campaign in Vienna aimed specifically at teachers and students over the age of twelve will be launched. “In order to ensure the safest possible start to school and smooth attendance at lessons, it is necessary to achieve the highest possible Covid 19 vaccination rate,” explained a spokesman for the Vienna City Councilor for Health, Hacker. For this reason, we are appealing to all teachers and all students over the age of twelve who have not yet been vaccinated to do so. The vaccine is freely selectable,…

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Fourth Corona wave overtakes USA: “Should never have got this far”.

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In light of the high number of new infections in the U.S., a senior public health official has warned of a “failure” in his country. “We should never have gotten to this point,” National Institutes of Health (NIH) research agency head Francis Collins told ABC on Sunday. U.S. President Joe Biden’s medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, warned of the emergence of a new variant of the virus. Earlier, 118,000 new cases of infection were registered within 24 hours, the most since February. The absolute peak in registered new infections was recorded…

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Unvaccinated: twice the risk for second Corona infections

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Unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to become reinfected with Covid-19, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) currently recommends that all persons eligible for Corona vaccination receive a shot – regardless of whether or not they have already survived an infection with the pathogen. In evaluating recent data, the CDC now sees this as reinforced. A new study examined 246 Kentucky adults who were re-infected with SARS-CoV-2 in May and June of this year, having previously contracted it in…

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450 new infections in Austria

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From Sunday to Monday, there were 450 new Corona infections in Austria. This is less than the average number of new cases per day last week – 523 – but a high number for a Monday. Especially at the beginning of the week, the number of new infections is usually significantly lower than during the rest of the week. These 450 new infections are the highest Monday figure since May 17. At that time, there were 476 infections in 24 hours. Compared with the previous week (364 cases), new infections…

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American infectiologist Anthony Fauci has warned of new virus variants

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American infectiologist Anthony Fauci has warned of new virus variants in an interview. In regions with few vaccinated people, where the virus can continue to circulate freely, there is a good chance that there will soon be a variant that could be more problematic than the delta variant, Fauci said in an interview with NBC News. Every infectiologist is aware, he said: a virus can only mutate if it is allowed to replicate. Currently, vaccinations still protect well against the delta variant, but a new variant could affect not only…

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