Month: December 2021

The omicron wave is rolling: some countries have already reacted with strict measures such as the closure of stores and leisure facilities. Travel is also becoming much more difficult. However, countries are affected differently by the Corona pandemic – and the rules in the fight against Covid-19 are also very different: Germany: after being removed from the list of high-risk countries, entry from Austria is now possible upon presentation of 3G proof – vaccinated, recovered, tested. The proof requirement applies from the age of six. Switzerland: everyone – including vaccinated…

The Google Austria Year in Review 2021 shows what Austrians typed into the Google search engine particularly often this year. According to the report, users were particularly interested in the European soccer championship – “EM” displaced “Corona” in second place among the top search terms. “Corona continued to dominate search queries this year like no other topic,” said Wolfgang Fasching-Kapfenberger, press spokesman for Google Austria. Corona, lockdown, everything gurgles and Corona numbers occupied the AustriansGoogle provides in its evaluation with the “trending searches” the search terms that have risen the…

More than 277.09 million people worldwide have been confirmed to have contracted coronavirus by the end of December That’s according to a Reuters count based on official data. More than 5.67 million people have died with or from the virus since it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. U.S. has highest coronavirus infection numbersThe United States has the highest infection numbers, followed by India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Russia. The USA also has the highest number of deaths. Brazil, Russia, India and Mexico are next in…

In view of the division in society that has become visible above all as a result of the Corona crisis, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Vienna Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schönborn emphasized “what we have in common” at Christmas. In the ORF program “Licht ins Dunkel,” both appealed to focus on togetherness.“It’s Christmas, that’s when you make an effort to leave what divides you at the door,” Van der Bellen said. He said he envied no politician, especially in the pandemic, having to make decisions every day without knowing…

According to data from U.S. pharmaceutical company Novavax, the vaccine Nuvaxovid should provide effective protection against Omikron. Astrazeneca, meanwhile, pointed to a study suggesting that booster vaccination with the vaccine works well against the coronavirus variant. Novavax reported in a release an effective immune response – also against the delta variant. A third dose – a so-called booster – would increase this immune response even more, showed the first results of a study on the vaccine’s efficacy in adolescents and as a booster. The immune response was as much as…