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Number of Corona infections in Vienna

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Seven months after the outbreak of the corona wave in Austria, infection levels reach a new, sad peak. The 1,000 infections has been broken again. Within 24 hours, 1,058 people in Austria tested positive for corona viruses. This value was only beaten once since the beginning of the pandemic: on March 26 (1,065 infections). Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) speaks of a “worryingly high number”. The Ministry of Health calculates an alarming increase in new infections of 2.3 percent compared to the previous day. Vienna worst. The next negative record:…

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Remdesivir, antibodies, acid blocker: How Donald Trump is treated

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After Donald Trump was diagnosed with an infection with the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, the U.S. President is being treated with a number of different drugs. For most of the drugs, efficacy against the virus has not yet been reliably proven. What is known about the drugs?. In its online edition, “Kurier” newspaper described the three important drugs being prescribed to the sick president. Remdesivir: Originally developed for the treatment of Ebola, Remdesivir is the only drug for the specific treatment of Covid-19 that is approved in the EU under certain conditions.…

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More than 100,000 corona deaths in India

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The number of corona deaths in India has risen to more than 100,000. This makes the subcontinent the third country in the world after the USA and Brazil to exceed this mark. Together, these three nations account for almost 45 percent of the over one million corona deaths worldwide. So far, 207,060 people in the USA have succumbed to the consequences of the corona virus, 145,388 in Brazil, and the Indian authorities reported a total of 100,842 corona deaths on Saturday. The number of infections was 6.47 million, an increase…

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New Encyclical: Pope Francis visits Assisi

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Pope Francis left on Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the Catholic Church drove to the pilgrimage city of Assisi, some 150 kilometers north of Rome, to sign his new encyclical. According to the Ansa news agency, he arrived there in a car. The encyclical will be the third such teaching letter of the 83-year-old Francis. The text, which bears the Italian title “Fratelli tutti”, is to be published only on Sunday noon in the Vatican in Rome. The new encyclical will deal with…

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Record number for new infections: Over 1,000 new coronavirus infections have been reported

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Over 1,000 new coronavirus infections have been reported from Thursday (as of 23:00) to Friday (as of 23:00). The 1,000 mark was thus exceeded in this country for the first time since March. According to Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens), this is not due to a “particularly high number of tests”, but partly to the “growth of existing known clusters”. The minister described the number of tests in a 24-hour comparison as “average”. According to him, the large increase in new cases is due “to a particularly large number of…

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Upadate: COVID 19 in Austria – Reproduction number again below 1.0

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The effective reproduction figure for Austria is below 1.0 for the first time since 10 August. 0.99 additional persons were infected by an infected person on average, as can be seen from the calculations of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and the Technical University of Graz. “The number of newly diagnosed cases every day is still at an increased level”, was however stressed in the update published yesterday afternoon on the AGES website. Few cases – large fluctuationsThe period under investigation was September 17 to 29. The…

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Worldwide Hotspot: In this country Corona is the deadliest

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In terms of population, there is no country where more people die of corona than here. In terms of population, there is no other country in the world where so many people die of the disease Covid-19 as in Peru. The South American country recently registered 98.6 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. This puts it in first place worldwide, ahead of Belgium, Bolivia and Spain. Only the small state of San Marino in Italy has even more deaths in relation to its population – but with a total of just 42…

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Study shows: very few people infect a large number

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A team of U.S. researchers analyzed data from Indian health authorities on 85,000 COVID 19 cases and nearly 600,000 of their contacts. 70 percent of those originally infected (index persons) examined did not infect anyone. Eight percent of those infected, however, were responsible for 60 percent of the new infections that were tracked, according to the study. In families, only nine percent of those infected for the first time infected their close contacts. “Contact testing is personnel-intensive and therefore limited in richer countries. In India, the situation is different,” writes…

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Wiener Linien extend compulsory masks to station buildings

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From now on the mouth nose protection must be worn upon entering the buildings of the public transport system.Wiener Linien is adapting its corona protection measures to the requirements of the federal government: Immediately the mouth nose protection applies not only in the vehicles and on the subway platforms, but in all Viennese lines buildings upon entering the entrance area.“The fact is: The mask obligation in the Öffis helps us to prevent infections and the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 – even with high person frequency, says the environmental physician Hans-Peter…

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