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The EU with 27 member states and almost 450 million inhabitants has secured one billion vaccine doses from three manufacturers. However, experts warn that not every vaccine may be effective. Brussels. According to insiders, the EU Commission assumes that not enough vaccine doses will be available for the entire EU population by the end of 2021. This was announced by a Commission representative to EU diplomats on Monday, the news agency Reuters learned from a participant of the meeting. A second insider made similar statements. The EU with 27 member…

Digitization in schools is to be promoted. For this reason, from the 2021/2022 school year onwards, mobile terminals such as notebooks and tablets will be available to fifth grade students at greatly reduced prices or even free of charge. Plans to this effect have been in place since before the summer, and this evening Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) sent the corresponding law for review. There is another exception for the first year. Students who repeat the fifth grade as well as young people from the sixth grade can also…

Bavaria and Austria want to enable and maintain small border traffic between the two countries. During a visit by European Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) today to her Bavarian counterpart Florian Herrmann (CSU), both reaffirmed their will to keep the borders open in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Herrmann said that this was a “lesson” that Bavaria had learned from the “unpleasant situation” resulting from the closure of the border last March as a “voluntary commitment”. The people in the border areas should be able to live “as…

The corona numbers in Austria continue to rise. Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober (Greens) now made an appeal to the population. The corona situation in Austria is getting worse and worse! In the last 24 hours alone, there have been a total of 2,835 confirmed cases, most of them in Lower Austria with almost 600 new infections. Due to the rapidly increasing numbers, scheduled operations in hospitals have to be postponed again in Upper Austria, and the number of intensive care patients in Austria has also increased. The most important…

Most new cases were in Lower Austria this time. Again, almost 3,000 new infections were registered in Austria within 24 hours. This time, the highest number of new cases is in Lower Austria with 590. Vienna followed with 456 and Tyrol with 436 new infections. So far, there have been 86,102 positive test results in Austria. As of today (October 27, 2020, 09:30 a.m.), 1,005 people throughout Austria have died as a result of the corona virus and 60,308 have recovered. At present, 1,400 people are undergoing hospital treatment due…

Eight months after the first confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections in Austria, the number of deaths has risen to over 1,000 according to official statistics. To date, 1,005 people have died as a result of Covid-19. The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior reported 2,835 newly registered coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. today). In total, 86,102 people have tested positive in Austria since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the two ministries, 1,400 people have to be treated in hospital for an…