Month: November 2021

National immunization panel: childhood vaccination recommended

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The EMA has already given the green light for the use of BioNTech/Pfizer’s Corona vaccine in children between the ages of five and eleven. Now the vaccine is also recommended by the National Immunization Panel (NIG). EMA: Green lightThe head of the NIG, Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, said at a press conference in Vienna. “Childhood vaccination is safe,” Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein stressed. Corona vaccination obligation also for children?258,000 doses of the company’s own vaccine with a new formulation are to be delivered to Austria by the end of the year. “That…

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13,592 new infections and more than 600 intensive care patients in Austria

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From Wednesday to Thursday, there were 13,592 new infections in Austria. Today’s new infections are below the average of the past seven days of 13,918. In addition, the number of active cases increases to 152,483. There are also 53 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 12,233 so far. In the past 24 hours, 493,374 new PCR tests have been performed. This results in a positive rate of 2.75 percent. Over 600 intensive care patientsThere is still no relief in…

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Snow possible throughout Austria on Friday

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Most of Austria is expecting its first snow this weekend, and Vienna could also experience its first snow this fall. Wintry driving conditions are to be expected on higher freeway sections. “At the weekend, movement comes into the so far very dry autumn. Cold air from the north and low pressure areas over Upper Italy will provide cold and damp weather in Austria. In many regions it will snow from Friday to Sunday for the first time this autumn,” says the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). Only at…

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WHO: “Vaccines save lives”

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“Vaccines save lives, but they do not completely prevent transmission.” This was said by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in the context of new findings around the effect of CoV vaccination in relation to the highly contagious CoV delta variant. Accordingly, according to the WHO chief, “the data suggest that transmission was reduced by about 60 percent by the vaccines before the emergence of the delta variant. With Delta, that figure has dropped to about 40 percent.” For that reason, he said, there is…

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More than 100,000 deaths in Germany

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The number of coronavirus deaths in Germany has exceeded the threshold of 100,000. As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported this morning, citing data from public health departments, another 351 people died within 24 hours after CoV infection. The death toll since the start of the pandemic thus rose to 100,119. More than 5.5 million people in Germany have been infected with the coronavirus so far, according to the RKI. The nationwide 7-day incidence rose again and now stands at 419.7, with 75,961 new coronavirus infections registered within one day.…

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Slovakia imposes two-week lockdown

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The Slovak government has decided on a nationwide lockdown for two weeks starting tomorrow. This was announced by Vice Prime Minister Richard Sulik after a cabinet meeting today. Contrary to earlier plans, there will be no exemptions for people vaccinated against Covid-19, the minister told the TASR news agency. Schools, on the other hand, are to remain open, according to government plans. The condition is regular coronavirus testing, Sulik explained. It will also remain possible to go to work, but there will be compulsory testing from Monday. Closed, however, according…

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Making trip abroad during lockdown – 2.5-G rule when returning to Austria

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As reported, travel abroad is permitted. They would serve the “mental and physical recovery outdoors”, it says from the Ministry of Health. Since the goal of shutting down the country is basically to limit contact in order to push down infection rates, this can be argued. Day trips abroad are allowedBut this interpretation, as far as vacation trips are concerned, in turn opens the door to gastronomic and shopping trips beyond the Austrian border, as constitutional lawyer Peter Bußjäger also confirms: “In my opinion, this is possible.” For if vacation…

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73.3 percent: majority in intensive care units are unvaccinated

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That the Corona vaccination helps especially in severe courses, show the latest the figures on the vaccination status of Covid-19 hospital patients from the Ministry of Health. As of yesterday (Tuesday), 584 people across Austria were in intensive care with an infection. 428, or 73.3 percent, of the ICU patients had either no vaccination or incomplete vaccination. The much smaller proportion, 156 people (26.7 percent), had been vaccinated. Figures for ViennaThe figures were similar in the federal capital, Vienna (as of November 22). There, 113 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection required…

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Austria: 70 percent vaccinated at least once

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The number of people in Austria vaccinated at least once against CoV has now reached the 70 percent mark. Today, the statistics of vaccinations recorded in the e-vaccination passport showed exactly 70.0 percent of the total population. Against the backdrop of a sharp rise in infection rates and intensifications, especially for the unvaccinated, the number of first-time vaccinations increased at the end of October and beginning of November. At the end of October, only 66 percent of people in Austria had been vaccinated at least once. As in previous weeks,…

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