Month: October 2021

28,000 kilos of plastic waste fished out of the sea

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Plastic waste is a massive threat to the lives of marine life and birds. Many die in agony because they mistake it for food.The Ocean CleanupIn a test phase, the organization The Ocean Cleanup was able to collect over 28,000 kilos of plastic from the sea, which is subsequently recycled. It’s a mega project that aims to rid our oceans of plastic waste: Founded in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to this mission. Problem point Great Pacific Garbage Patch In nine test collections, the organization was able to fish…

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EMA decision on vaccination for children by Christmas

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) could decide by Christmas whether to approve Biontech and Pfizer’s CoV vaccine for children as young as five. “The current timeline for the evaluation is approximately two months,” the EMA told Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) today. The agency is committed to “doing everything in its power to complete the evaluation within the shortest possible time,” RND quoted an EMA spokeswoman as saying. At the same time, however, a careful and robust evaluation of all available efficacy and safety data in this very young age group must…

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Who experts: the world is unfair, unjust and divided

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According to experts, the Corona pandemic has exposed an unjust, broken and divided world. Countries collectively are not capable of ending the Corona pandemic in the near future, nor preventing a similar pandemic, write the independent experts on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Preparedness Monitoring Panel. They presented their report Tuesday at the World Health Summit in Berlin. “Covid-19 has exposed a broken world that is unfair, unaccountable and divided,” it says. While the Corona pandemic cost hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide, countries were unable to find a common…

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More than 4000 new corona infections in Austria

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In the past 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday), 4261 new Corona infections have been recorded in Austria. A week ago, there were 3727. Ten Corona infected people died. There was a huge increase again in the number of hospitalizations. 89 patients had to be newly admitted to hospitals in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of people needing hospital treatment for coronavirus infection to 1257. 250 patients now require intensive care – up by six from the previous day. Ten more people infected with the coronavirus…

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EMA allows Moderna booster for over 18s

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved booster vaccinations against coronavirus using the U.S. company Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine. “Data showed that a third dose of Spikevax given six to eight months after the second dose resulted in an increase in antibody levels in adults whose antibody levels had decreased,” the Amsterdam-based agency said Monday, explaining its decision. Third Corona vaccination with Moderna approved in EUCompetent health authorities in EU countries could now make official recommendations for the administration of booster doses “taking into account the local epidemiological situation,” the EMA…

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Austria: New Corona regulation to be implemented on November 1

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Vienna. A new corona regulation will apply from November. At the top of the changes presented in a new regulation on Monday is 3 G at work. But the rules for winter tourism will also be adapted, the same applies to Christmas markets, and there is also news for top athletes. Below is an overview. WorkStarting in November, almost all employees must be vaccinated, recovered or tested when they arrive at the place of work. The only exceptions are people who have contact with others for no more than 15…

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Number of Catholics worldwide increased by 15 million

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The worldwide number of Catholics is increasing, only in Europe there is a downward trend. 1.34 Billion Catholics counted the universal Church at the end of 2019, which was 15.4 million more than the year before, according to the annual statistics of the Vatican information service “Fides” (Thursday). The occasion for the publication is the upcoming World Mission Day on Sunday. The proportion of Roman Catholics in the world population thus rose again slightly to 17.74 percent. Only in Europe was there a significant drop in Catholics of 292,000. A…

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Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen with climate appeal on National Day

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Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen has provided his traditional televised address on National Day with an urgent appeal. Referring to the climate crisis, the president said: “I could now tell you about everything that is happening, about forest fires, hurricanes and floods, about the rise of the seas, about the extinction of entire animal species. I’ll spare you that now.” Everyone and anyone knows this, Van der Bellen says: “We all know what’s going on. Some of them will perhaps say: The old man should give it a rest,…

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3,369 new infections in Austria

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After around 3,500 new infections were registered daily in the previous week, the situation has eased only slightly. From Monday to Tuesday, 3,369 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. This is above the average of the past seven days of 3,508. The seven-day incidence is 275.88 There are also 18 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 11,279 so far. The number of active cases rises to 33,210. In the past 24 hours, 125,794 PCR tests have been performed,…

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