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First major vaccination campaign starts in Vienna

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 admin

The first major vaccination campaign against the coronavirus will start in Vienna on Friday. Around 11,000 people are expected to receive their first jab over the next four days at Messe Wien. The majority of these doses are reserved for physicians in private practice and their staff. But also personnel of emergency services and mobile care as well as some midwives will be immunized at the total of 14 vaccination lines. There had been great interest among the target groups in the appointments to be made in advance. For example,…

600,000 people to be vaccinated in Austria by end of March

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

According to the Austrian Press Agency Health Minister Rudolf Anschober announced that vaccinations against the coronavirus for “about 600,000 people” will be accomplished in Austria in the first quarter. So far, 180,000 doses from Biontech/Pfizer and 10,000 from Moderna have been delivered to Austria, he reported during a local inspection at a nursing home in Klosterneuburg. By the end of the quarter, nearly 1.2 million vaccine doses from the two manufacturers are to be delivered. Anschober said that “large orders” had also been placed for the vaccine from AstraZeneca, which…

Telegram gains 25 million users within 3 days

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

With around 500 million monthly active users, Telegram is moving closer to its US competitor WhatsApp. The messenger service Telegram has gained around 25 million new users within 72 hours. As Russian app founder Pavel Durov announced on Tuesday, the platform currently has around 500 million monthly active users. This brings Telegram closer to its US competitor WhatsApp. The surge in Telegram downloads came shortly after WhatsApp introduced new privacy terms. The new rules allow more data to be shared with parent company Facebook. The changes have drawn criticism because…

Vatican confirms vaccination of Francis and Benedict XVI.

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

Vatican City, Jan 14, 2021 – The Vatican has confirmed the Corona vaccinations of Pope Francis and his 93-year-old predecessor Benedict XVI. The two were administered the first dose as part of the vaccination campaign launched in the Vatican City State, Press Office chief Matteo Bruni announced (Thursday). Earlier, two media had reported that the 84-year-old head of the Church had received the immunization on Wednesday. For privacy reasons, there were no photos of Francis’ immunization, the media reports said. In a TV interview Sunday night, the pope had promoted…

Church services suspended for another week

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

Minister of Culture extends agreement with all 16 religious societies – regulation is analogous to the lockdown currently in effectThe churches and religious societies, in consultation with Minister of Culture Susanne Raab, have extended the Corona agreement currently in force: analogous to the generally applicable lockdown, public religious services will be suspended until the end of next week for the time being. How it continues after that, will be agreed according to the then valid new general regulations, announced the Ministry to Kathpress on Thursday. As is already the case,…

COVID 19: infected but recovered people could transmit the virus again

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

The likelihood of becoming reinfected after a coronavirus infection is extremely low, at least within five months, according to a new study from the United Kingdom. For the study, scientists from Public Health England examined 6614 healthcare workers who had tested positive for corona antibodies between June and November. Only 44 subjects were found to have a new infection within this five-month period. Thus, 83 percent of the study participants were immune for at least five months. The study has only been published in preliminary form and has not yet…

WHO calls emergency committee together due to virus mutations

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

In view of the rapid spread of significantly more infectious variants of the coronavirus, the emergency committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) is bringing forward its next meeting by two weeks. The committee will meet as early as today to discuss current developments, the WHO announced yesterday in Geneva. In addition, the emergency committee is to discuss the handling of vaccination certificates and coronavirus tests during travel. Afterwards, the expert committee plans to publish recommendations for the WHO and its member states. Two mutations of the virus have been…

Total Corona chaos – current figures completely wrong

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

While the fear of the Corona mutation is also going around in Austria, the numbers of daily new infections continue at a very high level. The headline Thursday morning was cause for grave concern: within just 24 hours, Austria-wide infection figures are said to have risen from around 1,900 to more than 3,500 Corona cases – in the middle of a tough lockdown. The increase was particularly dramatic in Carinthia: Cases are said to have increased more than sixfold in the southernmost province, rising from 165 to 1,073. As “heute.at”…

New coronavirus mutation discovered in the USA

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 admin

After a new coronavirus variant was discovered in the UK, it seems that the virus is also “evolving” in the USA. Because there one discovered now a further mutation, which resembles the British variant, but is not directly “related”. Researchers emphasize, however, that there is not yet enough data and information about this mutation. Therefore, it is not possible to say anything more specific about it at this time. New coronavirus mutation in the USAIn the course of a long-term study, researchers in the USA have now discovered another coronavirus…