Category: Austrian News

The city of Vienna is responding to the high demand for Covid 19 boosters and is greatly expanding the existing Corona vaccination offer. To handle the additional demand with the shortest possible waiting times, the city’s vaccination centers will not only be open on a specific day of the week but, in the future, will again be open Monday through Saturday, with two vaccination lines per vaccination center. There was a two-hour wait for Corona vaccination at the Austria Center (ACV) in Vienna on Sunday. Due to the high demand…

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In the future, you can determine who can see if you are currently online in the chat window. The new WhatsApp feature brings even more privacyWhatsApp is increasingly expanding its privacy settings. According to a report at WABetaInfo, it will soon be possible to hide your online status. The feature is supposed to complement the function of restricting who can see when you were last online. Specifically, it is about the short notice “online” that appears in the chat window when the chat partner opens the app. So far, there…

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There are five new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection. From Saturday to Sunday, 8,616 new infections were registered in Austria. To date, there have been 4,457,570 positive test results in Austria. Currently, 18,798 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died, and 4,329,661 have recovered across Austria. Currently, there are 109,111 people actively infected with the coronavirus in Austria. 50 in intensive care unitsThere are currently 874 people infected with the coronavirus in-hospital care. Of these, 50 are being cared for in intensive care units. New infections in the federal statesBurgenland:…

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Corona case numbers in Austria are rising at an alarmingly rapid pace. On Saturday, 10,071 new infections and one death are recorded. Due to the massive increase in new Corona infections, the situation in hospitals is also becoming more tense again.There were 6,398 new Corona cases on Monday, 10,189 on Tuesday, 12,509 on Wednesday, 12,506 on Thursday, and 10,424 on Friday – the summer virus wave is hitting Austria with full force, and the situation is also coming to a head again in hospitals. “The experts of the crisis team…

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The National Immunization Panel (NIG) recommends booster vaccination for persons 65 years of age and older and at-risk persons of all ages. The experts have not made a general recommendation for booster vaccination. They expect to make such a recommendation in the fall.Vaccination should be given “no earlier than four months, but in any case, starting six months after completion of basic immunization (3rd vaccination) or after PCR-confirmed infection.” Healthy, immunocompetent individuals 12 to 64 years of age are not generally recommended for booster vaccination. In the fall, the federal…

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Vienna continues to have the strictest Corona rules, so the mask obligation applies only here in public transport. For the time being – not yet – to be tightened. Corona numbers are picking up strongly nationwide. In a comparison of federal states, the increase is highest in Vienna. Although Vienna has the strictest corona rules in Austria, it also has the highest number of PCR tests per inhabitant. On Wednesday, a total of 12,509 new infections and eleven deaths were again reported across Austria. In Vienna alone, 4,071 new cases…

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There are five new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection. From Thursday to Friday, 10,424 new infections were registered in Austria. This is above the 7-day average of 9,719 infections. The 7-day incidence is 764.30. As of Friday, 105,151 laboratory-confirmed active cases were known in Austria, up 3,951 from Thursday. Since the start of the pandemic, 4,438,883 cases have been registered in Austria. Four million and fourteen thousand nine hundred forty infected people have since recovered. Within the past 24 hours, 6,468 patients were reported as recovered. In the past…

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There are eight new deaths related to Covid 19 infection. From Wednesday to Thursday, 12,506 new infections were registered in Austria. This is well above the 7-day average of 9,506 infections. The 7-day incidence is 747.55, with the number of active Corona cases rising to 101,200. In the past 24 hours, 100,374 new PCR tests were done. This results in a positive rate of 12.46 percent. There have also been eight new deaths related to virus infection. This means that 18,787 people across Austria have died from or with SARS-CoV-2…

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In Austria, nearly 96,000 people have received a Corona booster vaccination (4th sting). This is according to figures published online Wednesday by the Ministry of Health. The National Immunization Panel recommends the fourth vaccination for everyone 80 and older, with a reduction to 65 under discussion. Younger people can get the booster voluntarily – and no earlier than four months after the third sting. 96,000 received 4th sting – 732 Austrians already vaccinated five timesAccording to the new data, 95,199 people received the fourth prick, and another 732 received the…

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