Month: January 2022

Corona traffic light red everywhere again

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The Corona rest period is over. What the daily infection figures already indicate, can also be read from the Corona traffic light as of today. Even the last three orange spots Styria, Burgenland and Carinthia are colored red, according to the working document of the responsible commission. The Austrian Press Agency published the report. This means there is a very high risk of infection throughout the federal territory. This range begins from risk number 100. Burgenland has 214, 1,716 in Tirol. That is almost a quadrupling of the risk figure…

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Only booster vaccination protects against Omikron, according to new study

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A new international study underscores the importance of third-party vaccination in the fight against the rampant Omicron variant of the coronavirus. According to the study by experts from Boston and Harvard, only those boosted with mRNA vaccines are protected against the new variant, while those who have recovered and been vaccinated are not. Blood samples from 239 people who had been vaccinated with Moderna, Biontech/Pfizer or Janssen were studied. The study found that antibodies after booster with mRNA vaccines were barely weaker against omicron than against the original virus, known…

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Moderna expects data for children vaccination from two to five

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U.S. biotechnology company Moderna expects results from its clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine for children ages two to five as early as March. If the data and discussions with regulators were positive, Moderna could then seek emergency approval for the vaccine, the company announced Wednesday. “In the first half of 2022”The other makers of an mRNA vaccine, Biontech and Pfizer, had said in mid-December they expected to seek emergency approval for ages six months to five years “in the first half of 2022.” The Biontech-Pfizer product is already approved in…

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Record for new corona infections: No stricter measures planned for now

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The previous record of 17,000 new coronavirus infections recorded in Austria on Wednesday is expected to fall in the coming days. Up to 30,000 cases could be reached in the next days – but stricter corona measures are not to be set for now. Record: 17,000 new cases on WednesdayStricter Corona measures will not follow the numbers for now, Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein said in the press foyer after the Council of Ministers. “These numbers have been predicted for 14 days and are therefore no surprise.” Austria has chosen a…

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Up to 30,000 daily Corona cases expected soon

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The previous record of 17,000 new infections with the corona virus, recorded in Austria on Wednesday, is likely to be pulverized in the coming days. Of it the Covid prognosis consortium is convinced. The experts assume in their current estimate that up to 30,000 new cases per day could be reached soon. At the end of January, a noticeable increase in hospital workloads can also be expected. It is likely that the daily number of cases will exceed 20,000 by the beginning of the coming weeks at the latest. On…

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AROUND 17,006 NEW CASES: All-time record for new infections in Austria

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New high: over 17,000 new infections in Austria.Ten new deaths linked to Covid-19. 96,548 active cases currently. After more than 10,000 new infections on Monday and more than 11,000 on Tuesday, 17,006 new infections were registered in Austria today (Wednesday). This represents a new high in the pandemic and is above the average of 10,666 over the past seven days. The previous high was reported on November 19 of last year with 15,809 new cases within 24 hours. As a reminder, Austria entered its fourth lockdown a few days later.…

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2G rule and mask obligation: “Wiener Eistraum” starts on 19 January

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Next week on Thursday (January 19), the Wiener Eistraum will start – with more ice skating space than ever before. This year’s Ice Dream will once again consist of the large areas on Rathausplatz in front of City Hall, the “Sky Rink” – a kind of ice-skating terrace complete with a new platform – and the Dream Trail in City Hall Park. The two free children’s and practice areas are also making a comeback. For those who want to ice skate, the 2G rule and mask obligation applies to the…

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France records 368,149 new infections

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France has recorded a record high of more than 368,000 new CoV infections registered within one day. According to data released by the French health authority last night, 368,149 new infections were reported within 24 hours. The previous high, set last Wednesday, had been 332,252 registered infections. Case numbers in France have skyrocketed over the past few weeks. The omicron variant of coronavirus is now prevalent in the country. The incidence value was most recently 2,790 nationwide, which indicates how many infections were recorded within a week converted to 100,000…

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Only with super green passport you can still travel through Italy

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Since Monday, the so-called Super Green Pass has been in force in Italy. This makes it almost impossible for even unvaccinated Austrians to enter Italy. In Italy, first-time vaccinations are increasing as strongly as they last did in the fall. Especially people in middle age and older are getting vaccinated. This has to do with the new vaccination obligation for over 50-year-olds, as the government in Rome explains, as the newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” writes. The special commissioner for Italy’s mandatory vaccination, General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, says: “It’s not easy to…

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