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Valneva covid vaccine available as early as this week

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Seventy-four thousand doses of Corona’s Valneva emergency vaccine are scheduled to arrive in Austria on Tuesday, and the vaccines will be distributed to the provinces on Thursday. In Carinthia, the new vaccine will be administered as early as Friday. Styria will follow at the end of August, and the federal capital Vienna on September 1. Several federal states are still waiting for information from the Ministry of Health or for the possibility of ordering the vaccine through the Federal Procurement Agency. Austrian-French company ValnevaThe vaccine VLA2001 is the only whole…

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4,883 new infections in Austria

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Fourteen new deaths were reported in association with Covid 19 infection. From Monday to Tuesday, 4,883 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 5,426 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 426.70. The number of active Corona cases decreases slightly again – to 68,732. Sixty-four thousand nine hundred sixty-four new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. That gives a positive rate of 7.52 percent. There are also 14 new deaths. This means 19,357 people have died in connection with a SARS-CoV-2…

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New antibody disables all Corona variants

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U.S. researchers have discovered an antibody that can neutralize all known viral variants. A universal vaccine seems within reach. Since its first appearance just over two and a half years ago in Wuhan, China, Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus has evolved dramatically. Continuous mutations have led to new variants becoming increasingly adept at evading our immune defenses. Most notably, the circulating omicron subvariant BA.5 has modified its receptor-binding site so that antibodies produced by previous infections or vaccination can no longer dock to its spike protein. Therefore, those who have been vaccinated and…

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Food waste – too much for the garbage can!

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Around one-third of the food produced ends up in the garbage worldwide. Austria is an accomplice to waste and is responsible for around one million tons of avoidable food waste annually. This means that food is experiencing a drastic loss of value in the 21st century. When food is wasted in this way, ethics, economics, and ecology reach their limits. After all, valuable natural resources such as water, raw materials, and energy are wasted not only for the production but ultimately for the disposal of unused food—nothing new about the…

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Five reasons for tears – Why people cry

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People get teary-eyed on all sorts of occasions. Everyone knows that. But can the triggers also be categorized? A study can answer this question and provides surprising insights. Human tears are an exciting phenomenon. They not only wet the eye or flush out foreign bodies but also flow when strong emotions are involved. Humans are probably the only living creatures that cry for emotional reasons. A research team from the Universities of Ulm and Sussex has categorized these reasons. Why do people need to cry?Based on a total of more…

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3,186 new infections in Austria on Monday

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From Sunday to Monday, 3,186 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 5,272 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 412.61. The number of active Corona cases decreases slightly again – to 71,279. Thirty-five thousand seven hundred twenty-six new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. That gives a positive rate of 8.92 percent. In addition, there is one new death. This means 19,343 people have died in connection with SARS-CoV-2 infection throughout Austria. Currently, 1,209 patients are in the hospital, and…

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Philippine schools reopen for face-to-face classes today

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After more than two years of closure due to the Corona pandemic, most Philippine schools reopened for face-to-face classes on Monday. They were closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic, and from then on, only online classes took place in the island nation in Southeast Asia. Schools were closed for so long in hardly any other country because of the Corona pandemic. In mid-November 2021, 100 more than 61,000 public schools had opened for two months as part of a pilot. They were located in remote locations and were…

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The number of Corona cases in Austria almost doubled in one week

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Currently, the incidence of infection seems manageable and controllable. But experts warn of the autumn wave. In Vienna, the numbers are already rising. There are still more than 200 Covid patients in intensive care units in AustriaVienna currently has the most registered new infections, with 1,488 new cases reported on Sunday, followed by Lower Austria in second place and Upper Austria in third. A week ago, 855 new Corona cases in the federal capital had been filed. The number of new cases has thus almost doubled. Since the beginning of…

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The week starts with continuous heavy rain in the east

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Heavy and persistent rain is expected in northern Burgenland, Vienna, and Lower Austria. On Wednesday, it should become friendlier. After the storms with partly devastating consequences, which recently kept hundreds of emergency services busy, especially in the south and west of Austria, the east is now facing heavy and persistent rain. Northern Burgenland, Vienna, and parts of Lower Austria are likely to be affected, the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) announced on Sunday. According to the forecast, heavier rain bands will move mainly over Lower Austria and Vienna…

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