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Vienna plans to tighten corona rules

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Corona numbers are soaring – also in Vienna. City boss Ludwig reacts and consults with experts on Thursday. Tightening measures are on the agenda. Vienna already has the strictest corona rules in Austria. For example, only in the federal capital are FFP2 masks mandatory in public transport and pharmacies, and quarantine is more strictly regulated in Vienna than in the rest of the country. Nevertheless, the number of new infections is also rising sharply in Vienna. Three thousand four hundred sixty were on Wednesday in Vienna, 12,529 Austria-wide. Unlike the…

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UN report: Number of people suffering from hunger worldwide increased significantly

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The number of people suffering from hunger worldwide continued to rise last year, according to United Nations (UN) estimates. Between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021, according to the annual report on the global supply situation, which was presented in New York on Wednesday. It said that that was about 46 million more than the previous year’s mean of 721 million. The challenges of ending hunger and malnutrition were growing, wrote several U.N. agencies, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and…

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Corona traffic light: Highest risk of infection in the east

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Corona traffic lights: Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland are switched to orange. The Corona traffic light puts the entire state and the three eastern states at high risk, i.e., orange, and the rest of the country at medium risk, i.e., yellow The extent to which this is factually true is difficult to judge. This is because the highest number of tests continues to be carried out in the east, which also means that more cases are detected. However, this has not been relevant for coloring for some time. Last week,…

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Wednesday: Over 12,500 new infections in Austria

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Eleven new deaths were linked to Covid 19 infection.From Tuesday to Wednesday, 12,529 new infections were registered in Austria. This is above the 7-day average of 10,246 infections. The 7-day incidence drops slightly to 805.77. Most recently, there were more than 12,500 new infections in early April. This brings the number of active Corona cases to 113,936. In the past 24 hours, 90,867 new PCR tests were made. This results in a positive rate of 13.79 percent. In addition, there are 11 new deaths. This means that 18,816 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have…

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Corona Summer Wave: Who’s getting the fourth vaccine now

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Vienna surged ahead and was so overrun that vaccination facilities had to be expanded again: Corona summer wave there, vacation travel craze increased interest in Corona vaccination after all – but only in the booster.Indeed, across Austria, three-quarters of all vaccinations administered in the past seven days were fourths, albeit at a low level – there were only around 50,400 Covid vaccinations in that period. In Vienna, 12,000 people have already picked up the fourth dose, with the federal capital releasing it to everyone over twelve. In the other federal…

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Sars-CoV-2: An antibody test as a patch

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Until now, antibody tests, unlike antigen tests, had to be performed in laboratories after a blood sample had been taken – including several days of waiting for the result. But Japanese experts have now developed a method in which antibodies against Sars-CoV-2 can be detected without taking any blood. This was reported this week by the German medical journal Ärzteblatt. Measuring 1.5 by 3.5 centimeters, the patch test / Image: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of TokyoExperts developed the rapid test at the University of Tokyo. This novel test…

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Nearly 10,000 new infections in Austria

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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…

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Vaccination offer of the City of Vienna

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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…

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

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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…

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