More than 222 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Only about one in 5,000 has contracted the coronavirus despite being vaccinated twice. That’s according to new data from America. As the “New York Times” writes, detailed figures from the American states of Utah, Virginia and King County were examined. In regions, which are less strongly affected by Corona, the risk sinks even again and would…
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New Corona measures: These are the rules for Vienna
Vienna’s special approach to corona measures continues to create different rules in the federal capital. Here is an overview of which masks and tests are valid where and for whom. Vienna takes stricter course with Corona rulesAt the beginning of the summer, Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) once again – after already imposing a lockdown at Easter – adopted a more restrictive course in terms of covid prevention. This is possible because the federal states can tighten up their regulations. The measures are valid by decree until the end of…
Read MoreThursday: More than 2,300 new infections in Austria
Yesterday, for the first time since the end of April, more than 2,000 new infections were reported within 24 hours – just on the day when the government presented its new plan to contain the pandemic. In the future, politicians will no longer be guided by infection figures, but will look at intensive care bed utilization. For the first time, Austria will now differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals when setting measures. details here Infection numbers continue to rise today: from yesterday, Wednesday, to today, Thursday, 2,356 new Corona infections…
Read MoreNew Corona rules: “There will be a fourth wave, a fifth, and a sixth”
Federal and state governments are tightening the measures. A phased plan will apply, based on ICU utilization. There is to be no more lockdown for vaccinated citizens. This has already announced Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday evening in the ORF summer talk. Instead, there will be tough measures only for the unvaccinated – to protect them and the health system from being overburdened. For example, there will be a FFP2 mask obligation for unvaccinated in the trade. After a meeting with the state governors, the federal government today, Wednesday, presented…
Read MoreChile to vaccinate children six and older against coronavirus
In Chile, children as young as six years old are to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the future. On Monday next week, the vaccination campaign for children between the ages of six and eleven will begin, Health Minister Enrique Paris said Wednesday during a visit to the city of Arica in the north of the country. The children are to be vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.Earlier this week, the Public Health Institute had granted the vaccine emergency approval for children six years and…
Read MoreAstraZeneca vaccine: list of “very rare” side effects supplemented
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has added Guillain-Barre syndrome to the list of “very rare” adverse reactions to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. The likelihood that there is a causal relationship between vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine and the occurrence of the nerve disease is “at least reasonable,” according to a statement issued by the EMA yesterday. The likelihood of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome after AstraZeneca vaccination is very low, the EMA stressed. Fewer than one in 10,000 people are affected, it said. By the end of July, 833 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome…
Read MoreAustria: Increasing number of younger covid patients in intensive care units
Nearly two-thirds of intensive care covid patients are currently under 60 years as – a few are even younger than 30. Not only in Vienna, where almost two-thirds of the Covid patients requiring intensive care are not yet 60 years old and four are even younger than 30 (cut-off date: September 7), the average age is falling among Corona patients admitted as inpatients and requiring an intensive care bed. A look at data in five other states shows this. Of the four Covid patients – three men and one woman…
Read MoreAustria: Corona stage plan in detail
On Wednesday, the federal government presented a “phased plan” for Corona protections. This depends on the occupancy of intensive care units and will apply from September 15. New Corona rules to take effect Sept. 15The first steps of the Corona step-by-step plan will already be put in place from September 15, including a tightening of the mask requirement. The following is an overview of the details. Corona stage plan from September 15 in detail STEP 1: Beginning Sept. 15 or 10 percent occupancy (200 beds), the FFP2 mask requirement will…
Read More“Autobahn” Vignette 2022 – now more expensive and has the color apricot
The Highway Vignette tariffs are adjusted every year to the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices and have been raised by 1.4% for the coming year. This means that in 2022 you will have to pay 93.80 euros for the annual vignette for passenger cars (this year: 92.50 euros), while that for motorcycles will cost 37.20 euros (this year: 36.70 euros). The apricot vignette is valid from December 1, 2021 and must be stuck on by February 1, 2022 at the latest. The current apple-green sticky vignette may still pick on…
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