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1,285 new infections in Austria

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From Monday to Tuesday, 1,285 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. This is below the average of the past seven days (1,768). There are also 15 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 11,049 so far. The number of active cases is down by 423 to 19,503, with a seven-day incidence of 143.25. There are currently 872 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid disease, up 48 from the previous day. 232 patients are in an intensive care unit…

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Almost two thirds of detergents contain plastic

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Of 256 detergents in a test by Global 2000 and the Chamber of Labor of Upper Austria, a good 60 percent contain plastic. In quite a few products, manufacturers have dispensed with the addition of solid microplastics since a previous study in 2019 – this was only detected in 14 products. However, the proportion of products with water-soluble, synthetic polymers has doubled. “Water-soluble plastic is now being used on a large scale, often as a substitute to solid microplastic,” said Lena Steger of Global 2000, adding that little is known…

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Big breakdown on Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp – services are again available

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On Monday evening, the platforms were unavailable for more than five hours, and only around midnight the services slowly started working again.Around six hours without Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram: An unusually long total outage affected billions of users of the online network on Monday. While Facebook did not initially comment on the causes of the disruption, experts tipped a configuration error in the network infrastructure that made all Facebook services inaccessible. Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized in a short Facebook post. Facebook’s technical team tweeted, “To the vast…

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“Sister Act 3” is coming: Whoopi Goldberg will soon be singing again

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The Nuns musical will get a third installment in the foreseeable future. Goldberg is also on board as a producer. Singing nuns just always go down well – especially when Whoopi Goldberg is the lead singer. So it’s truly amazing that so many years have passed without sequel plans since 1993’s “Sister Act 2.” That’s about to change, but before we get into the details, let’s first follow up with an earworm: Goldberg comebackIn 2018, it was still said that Whoopi Goldberg would not appear in a third part at…

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At what point a third Corona vaccination is really necessary

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Booster vaccinations against the coronavirushas been approved by the EU on Monday. For whom the 3rd prick is particularly important. The European Medicines Agency will announced its recommendation for booster vaccination against Corona on Monday. In Austria, the National Vaccination Panel has already presented initial guidelines for booster vaccination. According to these, the vaccination panel recommends that older persons and high-risk groups receive another shot after only six to nine months. A booster in this period is particularly important for those persons whose vaccination protection is weakening. Infectiologist Herwig Kollaritsch,…

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Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram down! Millions of users currently no longer have access

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04.10.2021 at 18:29 hDisruption at Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. The social network Facebook, as well as their services Whatsapp and Instagram, currently seem to have a glitch. Millions of users worldwide are currently having problems logging in. Mega-disruption at Facebook, Whatsapp and InstagramOn the site allestoerungen.at, over 19000 users reported problems with Facebook in Germany and Austria in the last hour (since 5:30 pm). On Twitter trending internationally the hashtags #facebookdown, #whatsappdown and #instagramdown. Facebook has not yet explained what is behind the disruption. However, Whatsapp reported on Twitter: “We…

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EMA gives green light for third vaccination with Biontech/Pfizer

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The EU medicines agency EMA has approved booster vaccinations against coronavirus using the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine. Booster vaccination with the corona vaccine would be eligible for people aged 18 and older, the EMA said Monday. The third vaccination should be given no earlier than six months after the second dose is administered, it said. Austria had previously begun offering a third prick to early first-time vaccinated people – but did so without approval, meaning off-label. The booster vaccination will be given in this country with the mRNA vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer and…

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Corona tests remain free until the end of March

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Corona tests will remain free until the end of March. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on Monday morning as published by the Austrian Press Agency. In a written statement of the department of Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) it is said that the ministry has dealt intensively with the question of free Corona tests in Austria in recent weeks with the involvement of experts and came to the conclusion that from the current point of view a continuation of these should remain. All Corona measures, including the testing modalities,…

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1,404 new infections in Austria

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From Sunday to Monday, 1,404 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. This is below the average of the past seven days (1,861). There are also eight new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 11,034 so far. The number of active cases is down by 392 to 20,316, with a seven-day incidence of 146.35. There are currently 824 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid disease, up four from the previous day. 220 patients are in intensive care – two…

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