Category: Austrian News

The fact that infected persons will go to work starting Monday is something the federal capital Vienna does not want to see among its employees. As announced on Friday, for City of Vienna employees – including administration in direct personal customer contact, employees in Viennese hospitals, care facilities, kindergartens, and municipal schools: “Positively tested, whether with or without symptoms, are not obliged to come to work.” “An infection with the coronavirus is still a notifiable disease,” urgently warns the city on Friday. The appeal is therefore also to the customers…

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From Thursday to Friday, 7,569 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 8,993 infections. The 7-day incidence drops to 707.23. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 114,840. Seventy-one thousand forty-seven new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.65 percent. There are also 12 new deaths. This means that 19,080 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. There are currently 1,654 patients being treated in the hospital and 91…

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Contact tracing is to be discontinued. There are also changes in the entry to Austria. From August, a different wind will be blowing when it comes to Corona: the quarantine rule, for example, will be abolished. But the new Corona rules also have implications for contact tracing. “A continuation of contact tracing is currently not planned,” a spokesman for Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) told ORF. In the new regulation, which will come into force on Monday, there is only talk of infected persons. But no longer of contact persons.…

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As of Monday, the quarantine for Corona infected people in Austria will fall – despite high infection numbers: Currently, there are 8,079 newly infected and 17 dead. Quarantine falls, number of Corona patients in domestic hospitals rises.On Thursday, the country’s health authorities reported 8,079 new Corona infections and 17 deaths in Austria. The infection numbers thus remain very high. By comparison, a week ago Thursday, July 21, 2022, there were 14,070 new infections and small deaths. Small glimmer of hope: hospital numbers are falling for the first time in days,…

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The regulation to end the quarantine for Corona has now been officially issued on Wednesday. The ordinance on the back of quarantine for Corona sufferers defines traffic restrictions or places you can not enter infected. The return of sick telephone leave and the risk group ordinance are stipulated elsewhere. The ordinance was officially issued at the end of the Corona quarantine.The traffic restrictions apply to anyone who tests positive. They begin to run even with a positive result on a less reliable antigen test. However, if the subsequent PCR test…

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The regulation on Corona entry restrictions to Austria was revised by amendment on Tuesday and will come into force on August 1. According to the new regulation, vaccination certificates of under-18s will no longer have an expiration date. For adults, nothing changes in the amendment; the validity of full immunization will continue to expire after 270 days. New vaccine on the list of valid immunizationsIn addition, the new vaccine Convidecia from the Chinese vaccine company CanSino Biologics will be added to the list of valid vaccinations. This is an adult…

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Significantly fewer than in the past three weeks. Twenty-seven new deaths related to Covid 19 infection. From Tuesday to Wednesday, 11,432 new infections were registered in Austria. This is significantly less compared to the Wednesday of the previous week (14,014) and the Wednesday before (15,149). And this despite similarly high test numbers. The number is above the 7-day average of 10,355 infections. The 7-day incidence drops slightly to 814.37. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 120,729. In the past 24 hours, 83,596 new PCR tests were…

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Vienna, Austria – Health Minister Rauch and Labor Minister Kocher announced the quarantine phase-out in a press conference. The Corona quarantine will be dropped in August. Health Minister Johannes Rauch announced this in a press conference after a meeting with the provincial health officers. Accordingly, anyone who does not feel ill can leave the house even after a positive Corona test but is subject to traffic restrictions. This means FFP2 masks must be worn unless you are outdoors and there are no other people within two meters. Rauch spoke of…

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According to APA and other Austrian news platforms, a new corona ordinance will be presented this afternoon. The main point of the law: Corona quarantine will be phased-out According to articles published on several Austrian news platforms, anyone who does not feel ill can leave the house even after a positive Corona test but is subject to some restrictions. This means that the FFP2 mask must be worn unless you are outdoors and no one is walking within two meters. Corona quarantine in Austria falls: regulation is presentedFurthermore, the ordinance…

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