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New entry regulation: quarantine dropped for many countries

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Starting tomorrow, the quarantine requirement will be dropped for many countries when entering Austria. It will be replaced by mandatory proof of vaccination, testing or recovery (3-G rule). For virus variants, there continue to be strict rules in the amended entry regulation that comes into force at midnight, the health ministry said yesterday. “In many states, the infection figures are declining, so we can also implement facilitations for entry into Austria in parallel with the opening steps in the country,” Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) said in a statement. All…

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Sanofi vaccine could be approved this year

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French pharmaceutical company Sanofi is moving forward with the development of its covid-19 vaccine after setbacks. The drug, developed jointly with Glaxo-Smithkline (GSK), showed strong efficacy in all age groups in a Phase 2 trial, the company announced Monday. Now, both partners plan to start a large-scale pivotal Phase 3 trial with more than 35,000 participants in the coming weeks. If successful, the vaccine could be approved in the fourth quarter of this year. According to the company, interim results from the study involving about 720 participants show antibodies forming…

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U.S. to release another 20 million doses of Corona vaccine to other countries

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The U.S. plans to release an additional 20 million doses of Corona vaccine to other countries by the end of next month and take a leadership role in the global fight against the pandemic. “We know that America will never be completely safe until the pandemic that is raging around the world is under control,” Biden said Monday at the White House. By the end of June, the U.S. would share at least 20 million vaccine doses with other countries – on top of 60 million already announced. Overall, that…

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EU expects 200 million vaccinations by end of week

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Some 200 million doses of Corona vaccine will have been administered in the EU by the end of the week, according to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. By July, an estimated 70 percent of adults could have received their first vaccination, von der Leyen said Monday, according to Deutsche presse Agentur, speaking from circles of participants at a CDU executive committee meeting she joined. Before the end of May, von der Leyen said she expected the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to approve the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine for adolescents aged 12…

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Austria: These travel rules apply with the opening from May 19, 2021

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In mid-May, tourism, gastronomy, leisure and culture in Austria will start again. This also means that new travel rules will apply. The Corona traffic lights are not all switched to green yet, but travel will soon be possible again. Gastronomy in Austria had been closed for more than half a year, and this will reopen on May 19, together with tourism, culture and leisure businesses and also hotels and accommodations. Overview of travel rules for AustriaIf you want to go on vacation in Austria you will probably ask yourself what…

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“Wiener Wiesn” will not take place in 2021

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The “Wiener Wiesn”, a major folk event in the country’s capital city of Vienna, has to be cancelled due to the Corona pandemic. The risk would still be too high. Fans of the Vienna Wiesn will not get their money’s worth again this year: as in the previous year, the major folk event will also be canceled in 2021. This has been communicated by the organizers on Monday. Many variants had been examined, but a folk festival worthy of the name was out of the question. The risk was too…

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Corona drug coming soon? Pfizer working on anti-corona pill

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The U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer is working on a drug to combat Covid-19, an anti-viral agent that people infected with the coronavirus are supposed to take at the beginning of the infection – as a kind of therapy. The tablets are supposed to kill existing coronaviruses in the body and prevent them from spreading. This was explained by U.S. health expert Anthony Fauci in an interview with the Italian television channel RAI over the weekend. “The anti-covid vaccine in tablet form is not yet a reality, but we are working…

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Lowest number since September 2020: 476 new infections in Austria

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On September 14, there were 382 new infections in Austria. That was the last time there were under 500 new infections in Austria. Until today. Because in the past 24 hours there were 476 new infections in Austria. Compared to Monday of the previous week (820 cases), the number drops again significantly and thus the 7-day incidence also drops to 63.78. In addition, there are six new deaths related to Covid 19 infection. In the past 24 hours, 34,079 new PCR tests were made, bringing the positive rate to 1.4…

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Germany: 5412 new infections – incidence remains at 83.1

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Health authorities in Germany have reported 5412 new Corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. This is according to figures from Monday morning, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard as of 05.03. For comparison, a week ago the figure had been 6922 infections. On Monday, the case numbers reported by the RKI are usually lower, partly because less testing is done on the weekend. According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days was 83.1 nationwide on…

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