Month: July 2022

Nearly 10,000 new infections in Austria

admin

Seven new deaths were linked to Covid 19 infection. This brings the number of active Corona cases to 110,948. Ninety-five thousand two hundred new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.33 percent. The Ministry of Health reported 9,831 new infections from Monday to Tuesday in Austria. This is below the 7-day average of 10,243 infections. The 7-day incidence drops slightly to 805.54. In addition, there are seven new deaths. This means that 18,805 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across…

Read More

Vaccination offer of the City of Vienna

admin

The city of Vienna is responding to the high demand for Covid 19 boosters and is greatly expanding the existing Corona vaccination offer. To handle the additional demand with the shortest possible waiting times, the city’s vaccination centers will not only be open on a specific day of the week but, in the future, will again be open Monday through Saturday, with two vaccination lines per vaccination center. There was a two-hour wait for Corona vaccination at the Austria Center (ACV) in Vienna on Sunday. Due to the high demand…

Read More

FFP-2 mask, Coronatest – this is valid in our vacation countries within Europe

admin

Vacations, summer vacation, and finally, breathing deeply are the motto of many people from Europe. However, the Corona virus does not take a break. Vacations at last, finally traveling again and enjoying the summer. But while we euphorically pack our bags, the Coronavirus continues to spread unchecked, and infection numbers are shooting through the roof across Europe. The best strategy is to know in which countries the 3G rule applies again and where you must wear an FFP2 mask. There is no vacation country where the entry for vaccination or…

Read More

Weather: cooling by rain and thunderstorms from the west

admin

In the east, it will be hot againOn Monday, from Vorarlberg to the western Innviertel, clouds and short sunny spells will alternate from early morning on, with some rain showers and thunderstorms. In the rest of Austria, the sun will shine at least occasionally. From late morning, more and more clouds will form, followed by thunderstorms and rain showers, with brief heavy downpours. The longest sunny and dry spells will be in the east and southeast. Winds will be light to moderate, lively to strong near thunderstorms, from the south…

Read More

WhatsApp finally allows online statuses to be hidden

admin

In the future, you can determine who can see if you are currently online in the chat window. The new WhatsApp feature brings even more privacyWhatsApp is increasingly expanding its privacy settings. According to a report at WABetaInfo, it will soon be possible to hide your online status. The feature is supposed to complement the function of restricting who can see when you were last online. Specifically, it is about the short notice “online” that appears in the chat window when the chat partner opens the app. So far, there…

Read More

BA.2.75 discovered: “alarming” for London Omicron hunters

admin

The variant has been detected in five countries—British health authority: No cause for concern yet. The series of bad news surrounding Corona refuses to stop: British researchers led by virologist Thomas Peacock have now expressed concern about a new Covid variant that has emerged in several countries worldwide. The strain, a descendant of Omikron, has been given the international classification BA.2.75 because it is a second generation of the BA.2 variant that caused a surge in Europe in late March. While the number of cases sequenced in laboratories is low…

Read More

8,616 new infections in Austria on Sunday

admin

There are five new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection. From Saturday to Sunday, 8,616 new infections were registered in Austria. To date, there have been 4,457,570 positive test results in Austria. Currently, 18,798 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died, and 4,329,661 have recovered across Austria. Currently, there are 109,111 people actively infected with the coronavirus in Austria. 50 in intensive care unitsThere are currently 874 people infected with the coronavirus in-hospital care. Of these, 50 are being cared for in intensive care units. New infections in the federal statesBurgenland:…

Read More

Why do blooming sunflowers always look to the east?

admin

Plants like to align themselves with the sun – more light means more photosynthesis. When sunflowers grow up, they do the same. During the day, they move with the sun. So in the morning, they face east, where the sun rises. Throughout the day, they follow it across the south to the west in the evening. There the sun sets, the sunflower turns back to the east during the night, and the game starts the next day again. With “adult” sunflowers, i.e., when they have fully blossomed, things are different:…

Read More

Monkeypox: “We must be very vigilant”.

admin

The Robert Koch Institute expects infection rates to continue increasing as monkeypox spreads. “It will take until late summer or early fall to see if efforts to contain the outbreak have been successful,” Lars Schaade, vice president of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), told Funke Mediengruppe newspapers. He does not expect the curve to flatten out for several weeks. One reason for this, he said, is the long incubation period of up to 21 days. Schaade is optimistic that the number of cases will fall if the vaccine is well…

Read More