Month: February 2022

2-G Plus continues to apply when visiting hospitals and retirement homes in Vienna

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Countless measures to contain the pandemic have been with us for almost two years, and they have changed regularly. While the rules are relaxed in many areas, 2-G Plus continues to apply when visiting hospitals and retirement homes. When visiting Vienna’s hospitals or nursing and retirement homes, you must be vaccinated or recovered, PCR tested, and put on an FFP2 mask. In hospitals, one can enter in exceptional cases with a valid antigen rapid test, such as minors, those in need of support, pregnant women, or hardship cases. Few visits…

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Saturday: 25,972 new infections in Austria

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Thirty-seven deaths were associated with Covid 19 infection. The 25,972 new infections reported Saturday by the Interior and Health ministries are below the average of the past seven days (26,462) and slightly lower than the numbers a week ago (26,282). There were 37 Corona-related deaths and slight decreases in hospital numbers in return. The seven-day incidence was 2073.7 cases. There were 275,874 active cases in Austria, down 4,869 from the previous day. Since the pandemic’s beginning, there have been 2,636,258 confirmed cases in Austria. Recovered patients number 2,345,622, with 30,804…

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Environmentalists now warn of a nuclear disaster

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The Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhya operator reports that unit 6 is disconnected from the grid. Unit 5 was also shut down shortly before!” This breaking news set alarm bells ringing among nuclear experts Friday morning. “If the cooling system fails or missiles hit the reactors, all of Europe would be exposed to a nuclear disaster. After all, Zaporizhzhya is the world’s largest reactor site,” GLOBAL 2000 expert Reinhard Uhrig said worriedly given the first impacts in the region. Earlier, expert Dr. Cornelius Granig had warned of a chain reaction:…

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Pope Francis: “Let us not forget: War is madness!”

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Pope Francis has spoken out in a Russian tweet about the war in Ukraine. “Every war leaves the world worse than it found it,” the head of the Catholic Church wrote Friday on the online service Twitter. “War is a failure of politics and humanity, a shameful surrender, a defeat in the face of the forces of evil.” From a 2020 encyclical by the pope, the quote was shared on Twitter in the usual languages of Italian, Portuguese, Polish, French, English, Spanish, German, and Arabic – and, for once, Russian.…

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Starting Monday, masks are no longer mandatory in school classrooms

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As of Monday, if there is one case of infection, teaching continues in the school, and from the second case onwards, education continues in the distance classes will be dropped. Monday brings not only changed guidelines for class closures in the event of multiple cases of infection but also the return of compulsory attendance. In the regulation published on Friday, the mask obligation at schools is further relaxed: Mouth-nose protection or FFP2 mask (in the upper school) must only be worn outside the own class or group rooms. Until two…

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Omicron variant BA.2 now dominant

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Today, the even more contagious Omicron sub-variant BA.2 dominates Vienna. This is shown by the evaluations of the City of Vienna via the PCR test system “Alles gurgelt. “It is still unclear whether this will lead to a new peak in new infections. As recently as February 24, omicron BA.2 levels were measured at 48.9 percent, but now BA.2 has surpassed the 50 percent mark. The number of new infections has been at a high level for days. The 7-day incidence of 1,909.5 is the lowest in Austria but still…

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31,324 new infections in Austria On Friday

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Twenty-five deaths related to Covid 19 infection. On Friday, the second anniversary of the first confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Austria, 31,324 new infections were reported nationwide. This is above the average of 26,506 over the past seven days. Currently, 280,743 people in Austria are actively infected with the coronavirus. In total, there have been more than 2.6 million confirmed infections to date. The seven-day incidence is 2,084.51. In the past 24 hours, 384,747 new PCR tests have been performed. This results in a positive rate of 8.14 percent. There are…

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Today marks the second anniversary of the first corona cases in Austria

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Friday marks two years since the first cases of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus were registered in Austria. On February 25, 2020, an Italian couple in Innsbruck received their positive test results; the two had probably contracted the disease in Bergamo. In this country alone, 2.6 million infections have been detected since then despite several lockdowns, 14,700 people have died from covid-19, and thousands have had or are dealing with long-covid sequelae. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, the U.S. has led in data collection since the pandemic began,…

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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer: “There is war again in Europe”.

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Chancellor Karl Nehammer stated on the occasion of the events in Ukraine. “There is war again in Europe,” Karl Nehammer declared during his statement on Thursday on the occasion of the events in Ukraine. It is thanks to Russia that “we have been freed from Nazi terror,” Nehammer said. “At the same time, we are now seeing Russia choose a path that we deeply reject,” the chancellor explained. He said the strength of the law applies, not “the law of the strongest.” European history is written in blood, he said.…

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