Month: December 2021

World population: 7.92 billion people on Earth

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The world’s population has grown by 82 million people this year, according to data from the United Nations (UN). This means that on the night of January 1, 2022, there will be around 7.92 billion people living on Earth, according to the German Foundation for World Population (DSW). According to the data, the world’s population is currently growing by around 1.09 percent every year, while between 1965 and 1970 the annual increase was still 2.05 percent. A new UN forecast on global population growth is expected in early 2022, said…

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Test: How well do FFP2 masks protect users when used multple times?

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FFP2 masks are actually intended for single use only. That’s what it says in the instruction leaflet or on the packaging. In everyday life, however, things are usually quite different: shopping at the supermarket, then a quick trip to the post office, picking up the kids from kindergarten – all with the same mask. Afterwards, the mask remains in the jacket pocket so that it can be reused the very next day. That’s convenient and saves money. But does the mask then still protect against infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus…

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France expects 100,000 new infections per day

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The French government expects more than 100,000 Corona infection cases per day by the end of the year. Health Minister Olivier Véran attributed this Wednesday to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Omicron is likely to become the predominant variant of the coronavirus in the country between Christmas and New Year’s Day, Véran told broadcaster BMF-TV. On Tuesday, nearly 73,000 new cases of infection were registered in France within one day, compared with an average of more than 54,000 in the preceding days. Nationwide, the proportion of people infected…

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Omicron wave: 15,000 new infections possible as early as the beginning of January

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Numbers are still declining, but because of the Omicron variant, there could be 15,000 new infections in Austria as early as the first week of January. This is what experts fear. Reproduction numbers are already likely to have increased significantly. The highly infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus could fully capture Austria as early as the first week of January and then sweep through the country as a fifth corona wave with 15,000 new infections per day. This outlook was published by the Covid forecasting consortium on Wednesday afternoon as…

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Shopping on December 24, 2021 in Vienna: opening hours of the stores

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December 24 falls on a Friday in 2021 – which means that the two Christmas holidays fall on the weekend. In Vienna, there are still some opportunities to go shopping or get gifts on Christmas Eve. Those who still need to get Christmas gifts, groceries, a Christmas tree or the like, still have a few hours to make the stores unsafe on December 24, 2021. Shopping on December 24, 2021: Regularly only until 1:00 p.m.In general, the legal basis for the opening hours of stores on December 24 is the…

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Austria corona rules stricter again: New Year’s Eve affected

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Austria is once again making its Corona rules stricter. The closing time in restaurants will be brought forward to 10 p.m. starting Dec. 27. The maximum number of participants at events will be limited to 2,000, and that too with conditions. From variant states like Great Britain one can enter only with third sting without quarantine. Bringing forward of gastro curfew also on New Year’s EveFor the first time, these measures were no longer announced by the government, which met together with the provincial governors, but by the Director General…

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Wednesday: 2,269 new infections in Austria

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After Tuesday’s report of 1,907 new infections without those from Salzburg, today, Wednesday, all provinces are complete. In today’s notification, yesterday’s new infection figures from Salzburg have been corrected. For this reason, there are 2,781 new infections today, Wednesday. On Tuesday, the province of Salzburg transmitted incorrect case numbers, these have now been corrected. In the past 24 hours, 128 new infections were added in Salzburg, yesterday there had been 109. The most new infections since Tuesday were reported by Vienna with 687 cases, in Lower Austria 507, in Upper…

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Already 365 Omicron cases confirmed in Austria

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In Austria, 365 coronavirus cases with the Omicron variant have already been confirmed, according to current data from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). While 49 cases were detected in calendar week 49 from December 6 to 12, there were already 278 detections in the past week, i.e. from December 12 to 19. This corresponds to an increase of 467 percent. The most cases of B.1.1.529 there are so far with 238 in Vienna. The federal capital, however, is the only one in which all positive PCR samples…

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Immunologists: Novavax vaccine well suited for boosters

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Immunologists say the newly approved vaccine from U.S. manufacturer Novavax in the EU is also suitable for booster vaccinations. “Everything known so far indicates that Novavax is probably a very good vaccine,” Carsten Watzl, secretary general of the German Society for Immunology, told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. “In booster vaccines, Novavax is not quite as effective as mRNA vaccines, according to a British study, but it is significantly better than vector vaccines,” the Dortmund immunology professor said. He said this distinguishes Novavax’s vaccine from the inactivated vaccine approval candidate Valneva.…

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