Month: October 2021

Third Corona vaccination is an important part of basic immunization

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The third dose of Corona vaccination is an important part of basic immunization against the virus, stresses Maria Paulke-Korinek of the Department of Immunization at the Ministry of Health. Government begins preparation for third Corona vaccination“The third dose of Covid-19 vaccination is an important part of basic immunization against corona virus,” Maria Paulke-Korinek of the Department of Immunization at the Ministry of Health said Thursday evening during an online presentation by the Austrian Society for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (ÖGIT). He said it is nonsensical and dangerous to postpone…

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All Saints’ Day: No parking ticket for visiting cemetery in Vienna

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Anyone visiting Vienna’s cemeteries by car on All Saints’ Day does not need a parking ticket on the holiday. However, there are exceptions.The ÖAMTC experts have a pleasant announcement for all road users who will be on their way to a Viennese cemetery on All Saints’ Day: Parking tickets can stay in the glove compartment. No short-stay parking zone on All Saints’ Day in ViennaThe area-wide short-stay parking zones are only valid on workdays. But beware: there are exceptions, for example around hospitals and train stations as well as around…

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Emergency approval of Biontech vaccine for children in the USA

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Biontech and Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine has now received emergency approval in the US for use in children between the ages of five and eleven. After an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted in favor on Tuesday, the FDA granted emergency approval yesterday. Subsequently, the health authority CDC must now also formally deal with it. This means that the vaccination campaign for the approximately 28 million children affected in the USA can now start in November, as already planned by the White House. Within the next…

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Halloween & Corona, this applies to private parties

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On October 31, it’s Halloween again. If you want to organize a party or are a guest yourself, you should follow these rules. Basically, it can be stated: the corona precautions at parties depend on the number of guests and start with a number of 25 people or more. Concrete rules: For parties with more than 25 people, the decisive factor is where the party takes place. A distinction is made here between residential (apartment, house) and non-residential (garage, garden, basement). If the party takes place in a garage, in…

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New Corona peak: 5,861 new infections in Austria

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The fourth wave continued to pick up speed during the fall vacations. In the past 24 hours, 5,861 new infections were added. More than 5,000 new cases per day had last occurred in the second wave in November 2020. In addition, 100 deaths were added in the past week alone. On Friday, significantly more Covid 19 patients also had to be treated in hospitals again. Almost exactly eleven months ago – on November 26, 2020 – more than 5,000 new infections had been reported by the Interior and Health Ministries,…

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Over 5,800 new infections in Austria

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A striking increase: 5861 new Corona infections have been registered in Austria in the past 24 hours (as of Friday, 9:30 a.m.). A week ago, there were 3582 new Corona cases. 17 more people infected with the corona virus died. The number of hospitalizations also continued to rise. The seven-day incidence is 314.33. There are also 17 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 11,333 so far. The number of active cases rises to 39,843. In the past 24 hours,…

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Coronavirus worldwide: acute vaccine shortage in poorer countries threatens world, Klitschko restricts public life in Kiev

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More than 245 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 5 million infected people have died. More than 6.9 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. The latest developmentsThe acute corona vaccine shortage in poorer countries threatens the entire world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Ahead of the G-20 summit in Rome, the WHO is therefore calling on the 20 major industrialized and emerging countries to act as quickly as possible. Providing health care to the poorest is solely a…

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New Zealand relax its restrictions/Rapid spread of infection in the Baltic States

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New Zealand plans to relax its strict entry restrictions for fully vaccinated people in mid-November. This will only affect citizens and residents of the Pacific nation, but not tourists. The time travelers must spend in state-run hotel quarantine will be halved from 14 to 7 days starting Nov. 14, followed by three days of home isolation, he said. Minister Chris Hipkins, who is responsible for corona measures, said this at a press conference in the New Zealand capital, Wellington, on Thursday (Oct. 28). Further relaxations would come into effect when…

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Facebook Group renames itself Meta

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The Facebook Group is giving itself a new name. The umbrella company over services such as Facebook or Instagram will be called Meta in the future, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday. With the new name, Zuckerberg wants to direct the focus on the new virtual environment “Metaverse,” in which he sees the future of digital communication – and also of his company. The online platform Facebook itself and subsidiary services such as Whatsapp and Instagram will keep their previous names. Meta will serve as an umbrella for…

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