Month: January 2022

These exotics bring the tropics to your plate even in winter: mangoes. But how do I tell if the fruit is ripe-and what’s the best way to serve it? A few tips. The sweet flesh of a mango is bright yellow-orange – but how do you tell if it’s ripe from the outside when you’re shopping? Sometimes the skin is more green to yellow-orange, sometimes it has red cheeks. Important to know: The color says nothing about the ripeness, but depends on the variety, says the Federal Center for Nutrition…

Omicron is dominating Austria. In Upper Austria, the number of cases has more than quadrupled – within just one week. At Christmas, we had 107 confirmed Omicron cases, and 455 Upper Austrians are currently infected. This means that the number of people infected with Omicron in Upper Austria has more than quadrupled since December 26. In Vienna, in the chancellor’s office, there will be a Corona summit on Tuesday – also because of Omicron. A press spokesman for the General Governmental Corona Crisis Coordination (GECKO) on Sunday: “Because of the…

Because the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, the affected countries are reacting with new measures. England reintroduces the mask obligation for older pupils, the United Arab Emirates forbids unvaccinated people to travel. Meanwhile, France decides to relax quarantine rules out of concern for maintaining daily life. Despite a recent record of more than 200,000 new Corona infections per day, France is shortening its quarantine periods. In the event of an infection, those who have been fully vaccinated will only have to remain in quarantine for seven days…

High pressure “Christine” moves further east on Sunday, but the weather is still calm. At the beginning of the week, the low pressure influence on the northern side of the Alps will increase again. A marginal low pressure system, which moves over northern Germany in the night to Monday, causes stormy gusts at the eastern edge of the Alps on Monday. On Tuesday, another marginal low pressure system moves over Germany, which also has an influence on Austria. In the middle of the week, a cold front announces itself. With…

Pope Francis called on the faithful for courage in the face of the pandemic at the Angelus prayer at the start of the new year. “We need encouragement. We are still living in uncertain and difficult times because of the pandemic. Many are afraid of the future and are burdened by social difficulties, personal problems, the dangers of the economic crisis, injustices and the economic imbalance of the planet,” the pope said Saturday. The pontiff also turned his attention once again to migrants. “When I look at Mary holding her…