Why you shouldn’t carelessly throw away used Corona masks

Carelessly discarded Corona masks pose a serious problem for the environment and wildlife, according to researchers at the University of Portsmouth. For a study published this week in the journal Nature Sustainability, the scientists examined the relationship between Corona measures in eleven countries and the amount of carelessly discarded Corona masks and other protective equipment. To do so, they analyzed data from publicly available databases, including data from the waste collection app Litterati, and looked at the period from September 2019 to the first six months of the pandemic. According…

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Exceptions: Persons who should not receive Corona vaccination

On Thursday, the federal government presented draft legislation on the Corona vaccination requirement, which is scheduled to take effect on Feb. 1, 2022. Exemptions from the vaccination requirement have now been defined in more detail by the Ministry of Health. Pregnant women: Due to the increased danger and the increased risk for severe courses of COVID-19 as well as a higher rate of premature births, vaccination against COVID-19 is explicitly recommended in pregnancy from the 2nd trimester onwards, depending on the vaccination status. However, since pregnancy is a medically very…

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Christmas market at Schönbrunn Palace opens

On December 12, the Christmas market at Schönbrunn Palace opens its doors again. Around 60 exhibitors are looking forward to the opening after the Corona Lockdown. Christmas market at the Riesenradplatz opens againWith end of the country wide Lockdown for inoculated and recovered also the culture and Christmas market castle Schönbrunn opens on Sunday, 12 December at 10 o’clock again its gates. Visitors can stroll and shop in a relaxed manner while observing the 2-G rule and wearing FFP2 masks. The decorated huts invite until 26 December with a variety…

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New Corona study: booster vaccination increases antibody levels

British researchers have found evidence in a population study that the effect of the Corona vaccines from Biontech/Pfizer and AstraZeneca against the Omicron variant is weaker than against the Delta variant. Booster vaccination then raises protection against symptomatic infection again, report researchers led by Nick Andrews of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in a yet-to-be peer-reviewed study. “ “This important UK study on Omicron shows more clearly for the first time how contagious variant is,” German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) commented on Twitter Saturday. “Early booster vaccination seems…

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NEW COVID 19 measures in Vienna – the timetable until Christmas

The lockdown for unvaccinated goes from Sunday for ten days in the extension, each new extension by ten days is extended in each case by the federal government. The non-essential trade partly opens already on Sunday, vaccinated or recovered customers must wear FFP2 mask. Trade employees are subject to 3G verification and the mask requirement, unless there are, for example, structural protective measures. Access to body-related service providers, who are also allowed to reopen, is restricted to those with a valid 2G certificate; in addition, the FFP2 mask requirement also…

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Two vaccinations provide little protection against Omicron

Investigations into the new CoV variant Omicron and the effectiveness of existing vaccines are in full swing. Much of it has been studied in the laboratory. Friday night, the results of a British analysis based on 581 people with confirmed Omicron variant became known: According to the results, only a third booster vaccination provides protection against disease with omicron. According to the U.K. health authority, infected individuals with two doses of the vaccines from AstraZeneca, as well as Pfizer and Biontech, showed significantly less protection against symptomatic infections than against…

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Saturday: 4,460 new infections in Austria

One day before the official end of the lockdown, the Corona situation in Austria seems to be stabilizing. From Friday to Saturday, 4,460 new infections were registered in Austria. This is significantly fewer new daily cases than at the beginning of the lockdown – 13,806 new infections had been reported on November 22. The newly reported cases are further below the average of 4,610 over the past seven days. In addition, this brings the number of active cases down further to 73,690. In the past 24 hours, 232,988 new PCR…

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ÖBB: Night train from Vienna to Paris starting December 12

The new rail timetable comes into effect across Europe on Sunday, and it has two more Nightjet lines in store. Travelers will then be able to go from Vienna to Paris three times a week. There will even be a daily service from Zurich to Amsterdam. Furthermore, international direct connections will be expanded, ÖBB announced in a press release on Thursday. This concerns for example the routes Graz-Budapest and Vienna-Bregenz-Frankfurt am Main. Night train from Vienna to Paris three times a weekThe night train from Vienna to Paris departs the…

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Czech Republic introduces mandatory vaccination

The first neighboring country has copied Austria’s mandatory vaccination and is introducing one as well. However, it will not apply to all citizens. In Austria, the draft of the upcoming compulsory vaccination law has been available for a few hours. It is to be fixed with February 2022. All persons starting from the age of 14, who have their main domicile in Austria or have a main domicile confirmation, must be vaccinated. Each quarter, the law provides for a “vaccination cut-off date” on which all persons recorded in the vaccination…

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