August 2021 Archives

Coronavirus worldwide: Greater Sydney reports record number of new infections, U.S. donates 1 million vaccine doses to Vietnam

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 admin

More than 213 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 4.4 million infected people have died. About 5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Despite the lockdown that has been in effect for eight weeks, the Australian state of New South Wales with the metropolis of Sydney is not getting its severe Corona wave under control. On Wednesday (Aug. 25), authorities recorded 919 new infections within 24 hours – the highest number since the pandemic began. Two people, including a…

5 billion Corona vaccinations administered worldwide

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 admin

More than 5 billion Corona vaccinations have now been administered around the world. That’s according to a count by the AFP news agency, which evaluated all the information available from official agencies in different countries for this purpose up to Tuesday afternoon.With 1.96 billion vaccine doses administered, China is still in the lead in a country comparison. It is followed by India (589 million) and the United States (363 million). Inequality in Corona vaccination campaignOverall, the global vaccination campaign is still driven by strong inequality. High-income countries have vaccinated an…

Vienna: Covid 19 Test validity shortened from September

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 admin

In Vienna, CoV tests will in future be valid for less time as “3-G” proof than before. Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) said at a press conference in the early afternoon that the validity period will be shortened. The validity will be changed as of September 1, he said: Specifically, a rapid antigen test performed at a test lane or pharmacy will only be usable for 24 hours instead of 48 hours starting in September. For PCR tests, the validity will be reduced from 72 to 48 hours. Only in the…

Continued concern about infection numbers in USA

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 admin

Rising CoV numbers continue to worry authorities in the US. Over the past few days, the U.S. has averaged just over 137,000 new infections per day, up nearly 12 percent from the previous week, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) chief Rochelle Walensky said yesterday. The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 was about the same as the previous week, she said, while the number of deaths rose 23 percent. Progress on vaccinationsAt the same time, however, there has been progress in the vaccination campaign, said White House CoV Coordinator…

U.S. expert on Delta: Almost as if we had a new pandemic

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 admin

Concern is growing among senior health officials in the U.S. about the Delta variant of the coronavirus. “Everything we thought we knew about coronavirus needs to be revised. It’s almost as if we have a new pandemic,” U.S. National Institutes of Health research agency director Francis Collins said in Tuesday’s Washington Post. For the next few months, he said, we need to be prepared for some difficulties. Due to the spread of the delta variant, the number of new corona infections in the U.S. has recently risen sharply again. The…

Next mutation puts researchers on alert

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 admin

A new mutation is currently keeping researchers busy. It is a subtype of the delta variant that dominates in Austria. Corona has had a firm grip on the world for over a year and a half. Currently, a renewed increase in the number of new infections can be observed in many places. The fourth wave of Corona has now also arrived in this country. The reason for the increase in numbers is the much more infectious delta variant of the Corona virus, which has been dominant in Austria and also…

Ministries report 1,002 new infections in Austria

August 24, 2021 admin

The Ministries of Health and Interior have reported 1,002 newly registered coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. today). The states reported these numbers to the national crisis team. 10,768 people have died as a result of coronavirus so far. Currently, 398 people are receiving hospital treatment for coronavirus, 84 of whom are in intensive care units. 7-day incidence at 91.1According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the 7-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections with the coronavirus in the past seven…

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, vaccination in supermarkets

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 admin

The fourth wave is just piling up in Austria. And it’s rolling in earlier than last year, as complexity researcher Peter Klimek noted a few days ago. The number of new infections is rising sharply, also in hospitals more patients have to be treated against Covid-19 again. The trend is upward. As epidemiologist Gerald Gartlehner notes, along with other experts, the fourth wave will be one of the unvaccinated. The solution: get more people to vaccinate. But therein lies the main problem. Fewer and fewer people are motivated to free…

Coronavirus worldwide: some 267,000 babies died as a result of economic downturn, anti-vaccination activists occupy news stations in London

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 admin

More than 211 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 4.4 million infected people have died. About 4.9 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. The economic downturn in the wake of the Corona crisis may have resulted in the deaths of more than 260,000 babies last year alone, mainly in poorer countries around the world. This is the conclusion reached by experts from the World Bank in a modeling study presented in the journal BMJ Open. According to the study,…