Month: May 2022

According to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) forecast, the weather will become less volatile in the coming days, and temperatures will rise. On Tuesday, up to 25 degrees are possible. Today, Friday, however, heavy clouds will prevail in many parts of the country. There will be short sunny windows, especially in the lowlands. Both in the inner Alps and the south and during the day, showers are expected from the northwest, locally with thunder and lightning. There will be locally gusty solid peaks, while away from them…

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The Austro-French group Valneva seeks approval of its corona vaccine VLA2001 as a booster after other vaccines or infections. For this purpose, a clinical trial with human volunteers has been started in the Netherlands, Valneva announced in a release Wednesday. For possible approval as a primary immunization against Covid-19 in the EU, the inactivated vaccine remains in the review process at the EMA drug agency. But that review process is delayed. Valneva still hopes to receive conditional marketing approval for VLA2001 in the European Union this quarter, initially expected by…

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According to a study, the Omicron variant is as dangerous as previous mutants of the Coronavirus. “We found that the risks for hospitalization and mortality were nearly identical,” explains four scientists involved in the U.S. study from Massachusetts General Hospital, Minerva University, and Harvard Medical School. The analysis is based on 130,000 Covid 19 patients over the past two years in several countries, including South Africa, Scotland, England, and Canada. The researchers thus refute the previous assumption that the variant is more transmissible but less severe. “We found that the…

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According to estimates by the EU medicines agency EMA, vaccines against the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus variant could receive approval by the end of September. The best chances would be for appropriately adapted mRNA vaccines from the companies Moderna and Biontech, EMA Director of Vaccine Strategy Marco Cavaleri said Thursday at a press conference held by the agency in Amsterdam. The necessary clinical trials are underway, he said. The Austrian-French company Valenva, after all, wants to have its inactivated vaccine, which is not yet on the market,…

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The new Covid 19 subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have also been detected in Austria for the first time. The city of Vienna has reported the first cases of variant BA.4 and one case of variant BA.5 to the Ministry of Health, the ministry said Wednesday. Individual cases have also been identified in Styria and Salzburg. Nationwide wastewater monitoring has revealed no evidence of the virus variants initially detected, mainly in South Africa. New Corona variants BA.4 and BA.5 are also in Austria According to initial assessments by experts, “the two…

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Non-EU citizens can now enter Croatia without vaccination certificates or negative Corona tests. This is now possible again – at least when it comes to a trip to Croatia. After the measure of mandatory presentation of a COVID certificate when entering Croatia was abolished on April 1, the Ministry of Interior decided this week to lift the least restrictive measure at the borders. Thus, non-EU citizens are now no longer required to show a valid vaccination certificate or negative PCR test at the border. “The validity of the decision on…

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