Author: admin

A 30-year-old Syrian man in Linz was apparently able to fend off a fraud attempt just in time by becoming suspicious and hanging up on the phone. A caller had introduced herself to him as an investigator from the Federal Police and requested his data. According to police, there is currently an increase in such calls from fake investigators. The 30-year-old Syrian man from Linz received a call from a number he did not recognize on Monday. A woman with an Indian accent told him in English she was from…

In Austria, it will remain mostly dry on Tuesday at 8 degrees – but in just two days, a new cold front will bring back the snow. From the west, the high pressure influence increases and subsequently provides generally calm weather conditions. In the lowlands, however, an inversion weather situation will set in, which will cause partly tenacious fog and high fog fields. Only on Thursday, a cold front from the north will hit the Alps, resulting in snow, especially in the congested areas. On Tuesday, away from the Alps,…

Virologist Dorothee Von Laer of the Medical University of Innsbruck does not believe that people will have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus every few months in the future. Rather, it is likely to be like the flu vaccination: She told the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” that she expects “regular booster vaccinations adapted to the current variant every fall, once more than 95 percent of people are immune – through infection or vaccination.” “That state will be reached when virtually all people have recovered or have been vaccinated and thus can have…

More than 176,000 people – 176,079 to be exact – have been infected with the coronavirus in this country in the past seven days, 49,000 of them in the federal capital alone. However, with 1.92 million inhabitants, Vienna is the state with the highest population. In terms of seven-day incidence (number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants), Tyrol is ahead with 2,796.5 and Salzburg with 2,638.1. Vienna holds at 2,551.3, and Austria as a whole at 1,971.3. For Austria, as well as Salzburg and Vienna, these are record incidences in…