Month: July 2022

Vienna: Virologist ‘not sure if wave will flatten out’

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Virologist Norbert Nowotny said Thursday’s new CoV measures in Vienna are very targeted. A mask obligation, for example, in supermarkets, is not considered meaningful at present. The expert is not sure whether the wave of infection will level off in the summer. CoV numbers will continue to rise, according to various model calculations. To what extent are there different scenarios, according to the City of Vienna expert staff. The first CoV summer wave since the beginning of the pandemic is on the rise, said the medical chief of the health…

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Next heat wave: up to 40 degrees in July

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The heat will soon be back. After the bearable temperatures of the past few days, heatwaves are also coming to Austria again. The American weather model GFS predicts up to 40 degrees for Central Europe. According to this forecast, it will be between 38 and 40 degrees in the east and north of Austria on July 15. The current record in Austria is 40.5 degrees, according to wetter.at. In the middle of Spain, it is supposed to get even hotter with over 44 degrees. France expects 40 degrees on this…

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11,971 new infections in Austria

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Nine deaths associated with Covid 19 infection have been reported. As of Thursday, 116,641 laboratory-confirmed active cases were known in Austria. Since the start of the pandemic, 4,499,646 cases have been registered in Austria. Four million three hundred sixty-four thousand one hundred eighty infected persons have since recovered. From Wednesday to Thursday, 11,971 new infections were registered in Austria. This is above the 7-day average of 10,170 infections. The 7-day incidence is 799.76. In the past 24 hours, 61,350 new PCR tests have been made. This results in a positive…

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Vienna plans to tighten corona rules

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Corona numbers are soaring – also in Vienna. City boss Ludwig reacts and consults with experts on Thursday. Tightening measures are on the agenda. Vienna already has the strictest corona rules in Austria. For example, only in the federal capital are FFP2 masks mandatory in public transport and pharmacies, and quarantine is more strictly regulated in Vienna than in the rest of the country. Nevertheless, the number of new infections is also rising sharply in Vienna. Three thousand four hundred sixty were on Wednesday in Vienna, 12,529 Austria-wide. Unlike the…

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UN report: Number of people suffering from hunger worldwide increased significantly

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The number of people suffering from hunger worldwide continued to rise last year, according to United Nations (UN) estimates. Between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021, according to the annual report on the global supply situation, which was presented in New York on Wednesday. It said that that was about 46 million more than the previous year’s mean of 721 million. The challenges of ending hunger and malnutrition were growing, wrote several U.N. agencies, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and…

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Corona traffic light: Highest risk of infection in the east

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Corona traffic lights: Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland are switched to orange. The Corona traffic light puts the entire state and the three eastern states at high risk, i.e., orange, and the rest of the country at medium risk, i.e., yellow The extent to which this is factually true is difficult to judge. This is because the highest number of tests continues to be carried out in the east, which also means that more cases are detected. However, this has not been relevant for coloring for some time. Last week,…

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Wednesday: Over 12,500 new infections in Austria

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Eleven new deaths were linked to Covid 19 infection.From Tuesday to Wednesday, 12,529 new infections were registered in Austria. This is above the 7-day average of 10,246 infections. The 7-day incidence drops slightly to 805.77. Most recently, there were more than 12,500 new infections in early April. This brings the number of active Corona cases to 113,936. In the past 24 hours, 90,867 new PCR tests were made. This results in a positive rate of 13.79 percent. In addition, there are 11 new deaths. This means that 18,816 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have…

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Corona Summer Wave: Who’s getting the fourth vaccine now

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Vienna surged ahead and was so overrun that vaccination facilities had to be expanded again: Corona summer wave there, vacation travel craze increased interest in Corona vaccination after all – but only in the booster.Indeed, across Austria, three-quarters of all vaccinations administered in the past seven days were fourths, albeit at a low level – there were only around 50,400 Covid vaccinations in that period. In Vienna, 12,000 people have already picked up the fourth dose, with the federal capital releasing it to everyone over twelve. In the other federal…

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Sars-CoV-2: An antibody test as a patch

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Until now, antibody tests, unlike antigen tests, had to be performed in laboratories after a blood sample had been taken – including several days of waiting for the result. But Japanese experts have now developed a method in which antibodies against Sars-CoV-2 can be detected without taking any blood. This was reported this week by the German medical journal Ärzteblatt. Measuring 1.5 by 3.5 centimeters, the patch test / Image: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of TokyoExperts developed the rapid test at the University of Tokyo. This novel test…

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