Month: January 2023

In the U.S., a significant proportion of new Corona infections are due to the XBB.1.5 variant, which has only recently become known. For example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that XBB.1.5 was behind about 40.5 percent of all new infections in the week leading up to the new year. The variant could be more easily transmissible, according to the CDC. “We have been monitoring XBB.1.5 since mid-November, and its incidence has doubled about every week,” Richard Neher, head of the Evolution of Viruses and Bacteria research group…

If you use your vacation days wisely in the coming months, you can take advantage of the available window days and maximize your vacation entitlement. For example, 43 vacation days left open can give you a total of 95 days off – that’s three whole months! With four vacation days used, you can already allow yourself a total of eight days off from January 1 to 8 Easter Monday falls on April 9 – with four used vacation days at Easter, there are nine free days from the 8th to…

New Year’s Day in Austria again sunny and very mildOn New Year’s Day, it will again be sunny and very mild in most of Austria, with highs between twelve and 18 degrees. Especially in the east and south, however, fog or high fog may persist in places, and here it will remain significantly cooler with highs around seven degrees. Warmest turn of the year since measurements began in SwitzerlandIn Switzerland, meanwhile, one of the warmest turn of the year since measurements began in the middle of the 19th century became…

Traditionally, there is little traffic on the streets of the Croatian capital Zagreb between Christmas Eve and Epiphany. Only in the bank branches, it jams here and there. “That’s how we Croats are,” smiles bank manager Matilda Aljinović, who comes from Split. “Everything that goes, we put off until the last deadline.” Since January 1, 2023, precisely zero o’clock, it is now possible to pay with euros in the youngest EU country. Croatian credit institutions prepared for the change of currency earlier than the citizens. “As a bank, we started…

From February 2, 2023, the §57a certificate will have a new look and a QR code. With the help of this QR code, an electronic version of the expert opinion can be retrieved from the central database. As of May 20, 2023, the mileage and consumption data of vehicles registered for the first time as of January 1, 2021, must be recorded in the course of the §57a appraisal. This data, including the vehicle identification number, is sent to a central database at the Ministry of Transport and, from there,…