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More than 1,700 new infections in Austria

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From Thursday to Friday, 1,715 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. There are also five new deaths related to Covid-19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,790 so far. The number of active cases increases by 450 to 17,187. The seven-day incidence is 118.97. There are currently 554 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid disease, up eleven from the previous day. 153 patients are in intensive care – four more than the day before. In the past 24 hours, 98,137 PCR tests have…

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President of Austrian Medical Association considers lockdown in autumn “necessary”

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In a Zeit im Bild 2 interview (ORF 1) Medical Association President Thomas Szekeres pleads once again that vaccination in Austria must be pushed further. Several million Austrians are still unvaccinated, he said. “The only way to get out of the pandemic is to vaccinate.” Mask, 1G and distanceIf it doesn’t work out with the vaccinations – “I’m an optimist and hope it works out” – it will be necessary to take further measures, he said. The physician leader advocates both mandatory masks indoors, safe distance and 1G rule at…

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PER EMERGENCY APPROVAL India approves the world’s first DNA vaccine

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“ZYCOV-D,” is said to be not only easy to use – the DNA vaccine is also safe and well tolerated, according to various studies. In its fight against the corona crisis, India has become the first country in the world to approve a DNA vaccine. It works similarly to the mRNA vaccines from Biontech/Pfizer or Moderna and could be a real milestone in containing the pandemic. The vaccine from the company Zydus Cadila is expected to ship as early as mid-September. As dramatic as the consequences of the health crisis…

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CORONA EXPERT: 90 percent immunity is needed to overcome the pandemic

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There are still many people in Austria who do not want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The virologist Dorothee von Laer, who works in Innsbruck, now explained that there is probably only one alternative to a general vaccination requirement in the country. And that would be to “let the virus pass through” – meaning that almost everyone who has not yet been vaccinated or recovered would then be infected with it. The still-rising incidences are a concern for the virologist at the Medical University of Innsbruck. In the last…

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Italy’s head of government favors compulsory vaccination

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A possible general vaccination requirement brought into play by head of government Mario Draghi is causing criticism in Italy. The head of the right-wing nationalist party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni, said Friday (Aug. 3) in an interview with the newspaper La Stampa that she opposes mandatory vaccination. Earlier, Matteo Salvini, the former interior minister of the right-wing Lega, spoke out against the duty. The head of the Social Democrats, Enrico Letta, on the other hand, expressed positive views on compulsory vaccination. Draghi had affirmed at a press…

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Start of booster vaccinations in Austria

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Vienna. From week to week, Austria falls further behind the EU average in the vaccination rate. For the past week, the country has stagnated at a rate of about 58 percent fully vaccinated.And has thus clearly fallen below even the government’s worst-case scenarios. Burgenland (66.4 percent) and Lower Austria (61.4) are the best of all the provinces, but have also failed to reach the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the population before school starts. However, the low vaccination rate puts the unvaccinated – including children, for example – at…

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“Attention scam!” – Austrian Health Insurance Office warns against these calls

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The Österreichische Gesundheitskasse (Austrian Health Insurance Office) warns of fraudulent calls in which policyholders are offered light therapy. Currently, insureds are once again receiving calls in which light therapy is allegedly offered in the name of the Austrian Health Insurance Office (ÖGK). “Hands off: these calls are an attempt to defraud. Do not go for it,” warns ÖGK in a statement. With a supposedly new light therapy, insured persons of ÖGK are currently being lured by scammers. The callers are mostly female and claim to be working on behalf of…

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Almost half of infections in Austria occured at home

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Of the nearly 10,000 CoV infections, 9,476 were exact in calendar week 34 (August 23-29), the proportion of cleared source of infection was 70.7 percent, again more than two-thirds, as in the previous five weeks. While travel-associated cases decreased to 30.2 percent (down 9.6) compared to the previous week, nearly half of new infections again occurred in households, with a 48.1 percent share. As the current epidemiological Covid-19 clarification of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) shows, this development occurred even more strongly in Vienna, where the majority…

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Austrian Government consults on new tightening for the unvaccinated

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Infection figures are rising rapidly, the crisis team is drawing a gloomy forecast. On Wednesday, the government will discuss new measures. 1,510 new Corona infections on Thursday, up from 1,848 the previous day. Hospital workload is still manageable: 396 covid patients are in the hospital, 142 in intensive care. But it won’t stay that way. According to the Corona Commission, the situation worsens dramatically in September. The commission provides data for government talks with countries and experts that restart next Wednesday. On average, new infections will rise to 1,700. The…

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