Month: December 2021

Austria: What is (not) allowed on New Year’s Eve this year

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The mood could be better. Shortly before the turn of the year, not only is celebration severely restricted by law, but exuberance also has no place in the minds of Austrians due to the pandemic. The Gallup Institute conducted an online survey of 1000 people on behalf of Wiener Städtische. According to the survey, 60 percent of respondents plan to celebrate the New Year as a couple or with their families. Only three percent plan to attend a party with more than ten people. With a quarter of the Austrians…

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Denmark and Iceland report highs in new infections

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The rapid spread of the omicron variant of coronavirus continues to cause new infections to skyrocket in Denmark and Iceland. Both countries reported new highs on Monday. In Denmark, 16,164 coronavirus cases were registered within 24 hours. The 7-day incidence is 1,621. Iceland also reported a record number of new infections. Within 24 hours, 672 infections were recorded. Until mid-December, Icelandic authorities had recorded fewer than 200 new cases per day. Prior to the spread of the Omicron variant, Denmark and Iceland had had some of the lowest infection rates…

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Rising trend: 1,697 Omicron cases detected in Austria

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From Dec. 20 to 26, 1,218 of the new “variant of concern” were detected, according to recent data from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). The still dominant mutation B.1.617.2 aka Delta continues to be in retreat. At week 51, Delta was registered less than three times as often as Omicron – at week 50, the factor was still 16. In week 50, the ratio of delta to omicron was 5,475 to 332, but one week later it was 3,307 to 1,218, with the overall number of cases…

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Next iPhones to come without SIM card slot

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According to one report, Apple will do away with a SIM card slot in the iPhone 15. Accordingly, if the current product cycle is maintained, there would no longer be a current iPhone with a regular SIM card from 2023. Instead, the eSIM will be used to register with the mobile carrier. The eSIM is a virtual SIM card and a fixed component of the chip. Starting with the iPhone XS series, eSIM has been on board iPhones since 2018. Doing away with SIM card brings advantages for Apple For…

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1,550 new infections in Austria

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From Sunday to Monday, 1,550 new infections were registered in Austria. This is below the average of the past seven days of 2,096. It also brings the number of active cases down further to 28,825. In the past 24 hours, 167,020 new PCR tests were performed. This results in a positive rate of 0.66 percent. The seven-day incidence has dropped to 164. There are also 16 new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection to report. Thus, the pandemic has claimed 13,650 lives in Austria so far. There are currently 1,207…

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The Corona records in Austria 2021

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15,809 New Infections – November 19 marked the day with the most new infections in 24 hours since the pandemic began. Just one of many sad records in the past Corona year. Less than a week later, on November 24, it was also followed by the day with the highest 7-day incidence per 100,000 population. Just over a month ago, then, this stood at 1,111.97. For comparison. Now it is 167.5. Two records that one would probably expect to see this year, based on the high infection numbers, already existed…

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Pope stressed importance of the family on St. Stephen’s Day

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Pope Francis on St. Stephen’s Day highlighted the importance of the family in the life of every person. “The family is the story from which each of us comes,” the pope stressed Sunday at the Angelus prayer on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Family. Francis expressed concern about the population decline in Europe. The “demographic winter” that is weighing heavily on Italy in particular is a “tragedy,” he said. “Many couples prefer to stay without a child or with only one child. Think about it: It’s a…

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Incidence in Germany at 222.7

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The seven-day incidence of new corona infections in Germany has risen to 222.7. Within 24 hours, 13,908 new infections with the corona virus were recorded, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported Monday morning. In addition, 69 more people died after a corona infection. The RKI pointed out that because of the Christmas holidays, fewer people got tested and not all health offices forwarded data. The actual numbers could therefore be higher. Since the start of the pandemic, public health departments in Germany reported 7,005,289 Corona infections. The total number of…

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Weather forecast: end of year will be mild

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The last week of 2021 will also remain almost without snow and will be very mild, meteorologists at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) forecast on Sunday. Vienna weather in detailAlthough it remains quite cloudy and foggy, but the temperatures rise, especially until the end of the week up to 15 degrees. On Monday still snow drizzle in the eastParticularly in the eastern half of the country, deep clouds will persist over the lowlands on Monday, but this will only lead to unproductive snow drizzle or freezing drizzle…

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