Month: January 2022

Omicron: WHO warns of emergence of more dangerous variants

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Are we seeing the emergence of more dangerous viral variants? The World Health Organization has warned of this in light of the Omicron variant of the Corona virus. The more Omicron spreads and multiplies, “the more likely it is to give rise to a new variant,” WHO emergency response expert Catherine Smallwood said Tuesday in an interview with the AFP news agency. WHO emergency expert speaks of ‘dangerous phase’“We are in a very dangerous phase,” Smallwood stressed. “We are seeing very sharp increases in infection rates in Western Europe, the…

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Measures against omicron to be determined on Thursday, 6 January

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The expert panel “Gecko” prepared facts and figures before the federal-provincial summit today, Thursday. The government will eventually announce the concrete measures based on the presentation of the Covid Crisis Coordination. A “hard lockdown” is apparently not an issue. Calls for quarantine relaxationsAt 11 a.m. Thursday, the federal government will consult with the states and experts on the current Corona situation. The “all-state Covid Crisis Coordination” (Gecko) did not make any specific recommendations for concrete measures at its meeting on Tuesday afternoon, according to information obtained by APA. Accordingly, the…

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Austria’s Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein advises home office and mask even outdoors

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Omicron is already causing new infection numbers to skyrocket. “We have to slow down Omicron and keep the country running,” said Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein yesterday on Twitter. “Wear mask even outdoors if 2m distance doesn’t work out. A well-fitting FFP2 is still essential protection.” If possible, work from a home office, he said. And, “Protect yourself with vaccination.” The second dose lowers the risk for a severe course, he said, and the third dose reduces it even more significantly and effectively. Omicron is more contagious than its predecessor Delta,…

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Omicron spreads – 1.3 million Britons quarantined

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Omicron continues to rage almost unchecked on the island. More and more people are having to go into self-isolation – but the government isn’t budging. Around five percent of all Britons are currently sitting at home: as the Daily Mail reports, 1.3 million people in the UK are already in self-isolation. For the population, the effects are already being clearly felt. The situation is so dramatic that there are piles of garbage on roadsides all over England because the responsible refuse collectors no longer have enough staff available. The failures…

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Up to 17,000 Corona infections possible next week

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Due to the dominance of the Omicron virus variant, which has now also reached Austria, the Covid forecasting consortium in Austria assumes in its current calculation a strongly accelerated infection incidence, which will lead to an increase of Covid patients in normal wards in hospitals. Up to 17,000 new infections are expected in the coming week. Next Wednesday (January 12), according to the experts’ calculations, there will certainly be more than 10,000 new infections within 24 hours. With high probability it will be more than 13,000, as a mean value…

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Omicron: Corona traffic light switches to red for the most part in Austria

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Due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, the Corona traffic light switched mostly to red in Austria on Wednesday. Up to 17,000 infections feared next week 9,761 new Corona infectionsThe Corona Commission on Wednesday rated the provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Vienna as “very high risk.” Burgenland, Carinthia and Styria were rated “high risk.” Corona traffic light predominantly switches to red in AustriaThe decisive factor for the rating is the risk number, which takes into account not only new infections but also the age of…

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Corona situation is worsening dramatically in Australia, Israel and Argentina

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The Corona situation in Australia is worsening dramatically: authorities in the country of 25 million people today reported more than 64,700 new infections, almost 17,000 more than yesterday and a new high. By comparison, at the end of November, the figures were still at 1,000 to 1,500 new infections daily. Particularly affected are the most populous states of New South Wales with the major city of Sydney and Victoria with the metropolis of Melbourne. Almost 1,500 people are now hospitalized in the east coast region in connection with Covid-19 –…

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Covid infections in Austria: Almost 10,000 new cases in 24 hours

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Due to an EMS error, it took a long time on Wednesday before the number of new infections could be announced. Now the problem is fixed: In the past 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday), 9761 new infections have been recorded in Austria. Already on the previous day, the number of new infections had increased drastically with 5496 cases compared to the previous week. Now they have even tripled compared to the previous week (3251 cases). As of today (January 5, 2022, 10:30 a.m.), 13,802 people across Austria have…

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Despite Omicron Wave: Willingness to be vaccinated decreases

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About two-thirds of covid patients currently admitted to normal wards are not fully immunized, and four out of five critically ill patients in intensive care units do not have adequate protection. These data show that booster vaccinations work well against coronavirus – yet vaccination coverage in Austria is declining. In the last seven days, 205,552 stings were given against Corona – nearly 20 percent fewer than the week before. According to the Ministry of Health, 46,651 Corona vaccinations were recorded in Austria on Tuesday, of which 5127 were first stings…

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