Free corona testing for symptomatic individuals

Corona tests will continue to be free of charge for symptomatic patients at physicians’ offices. According to the Health Ministry’s revised draft of the Covid-19 Transition Act, which the Council will approve by Ministers on Wednesday and by Parliament before the end of June, a Health Ministry statement said Tuesday. “To ensure that all people with symptoms continue to receive the best medical treatment, we continue to enable free testing in the case of symptoms,” Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) stressed. According to the experts, widespread testing of people without…

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Cell phone neck – please don’t always hang your head!

You can see young and adult people bending over their cell phones in cramps in many places. The head, which weighs between four and six kilograms in adulthood, is held forward in an unnatural position and at an untypical inclination angle for too long. The risk of overloading the back and cervical spine is significantly increased.Specialists warn that additional forces of 13 kg act on the back muscles, tendons, and intervertebral discs as soon as the head is tilted forward at an angle of 15 degrees! Many cell phone users…

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Weekend weather – lots of sunshine and summer temperatures

According to the weather service Ubimet, the Pentecost weekend will spoil us with lots of sunshine and summer temperatures up to 27 degrees. Here is the forecast in detail. Thanks to high VERA, Austria will have a tranquil Pentecost holiday this year. From Friday up to and including Monday, sunshine will dominate most of the time, and temperatures will be consistently in the pleasant range of 20 to 27 degrees. There are also good prospects for all those who want to use the long weekend for a short vacation on…

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