Category: Austrian News

Starting next Monday, Corona vaccination will be possible in Vienna even without a vaccination appointment. As Health Councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) announced via broadcast, this vaccination campaign will take place from July 5 to 11 and will be carried out with the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. “After the vaccine from AstraZeneca has also proven to be very effective against the delta variant of the Corona virus and the National Vaccination Panel has recommended a shortening of the interval between the two vaccinations from twelve to four weeks, we will also follow this…

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Starting today, Austria implements COVID 19 relaxations – here are the rules for a carefree summer. Tested, recovered vaccinated – many things only with 3 GGreen passport: in gastronomy, tourism, leisure businesses (e.g. gyms), theaters, cinemas, schools, at events with more than 100 people and trade fairs or congresses, visitors must prove one of the 3 Gs. The age limit is raised to 12 years.Finally the night gastronomy is allowed to open againBars, clubs and discos: the clubs that have been closed since mid-March 2020 unlock from today. “Dancing and…

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With July 1, there are not only Corona relaxations, but also numerous changes that will put pressure on the Austrians’ wallets in the future. From Thursday, the mask obligation is history in many places, the Corona curfew in pubs will be lifted, the minimum distance is no longer and the square meter restrictions in retail will also be dropped. With 3-G rule can finally be celebrated and danced into the night again. But the Corona relaxations aren’t the only thing that will be new starting July 1. With this date…

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The Vienna Corona Summit with Mayor Michael Ludwig and high-ranking experts was eagerly awaited on Wednesday. After all, Ludwig had expressed extreme skepticism in advance (due to the spread of the highly contagious delta variant) about the broad opening steps taken by the federal government – putting it on the line that Vienna will not support all opening measures. “The health care crisis is not over yet. I see it differently than some politicians in Austria,” Ludwig explained. “The virus doesn’t take a vacation. In comparable countries, a strong dynamic…

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From Tuesday to Wednesday, there were 59 new Corona infections in Austria. Compared to the previous week (117 cases), there are 58 fewer cases and thus the 7-day incidence also decreases to 6.37. Since there are also 138 new recovered cases, the number of active cases drops below 2,000 to 1,959. In addition, there are two new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection. In the past 24 hours, 63,305 new PCR tests were performed, for a positive rate of 0.09. The new infections in the provincesVienna: 41Lower Austria: 13Burgenland: 4Tyrol:…

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New infections with coronavirus in Austria remain at a low level. In the past 24 hours, 29 new infections have been registered across Austria, according to figures from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior (as of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday), which is far below the seven-day average of 89 cases per day. However, a data adjustment in Carinthia has a massive impact on the statistics. There, the figures were corrected downward by 35 cases. Seven-day incidence also lowWith the low number of cases, the seven-day incidence of…

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In the course of Monday, the Ministry of Health will issue a new Corona regulation. It brings numerous relaxations from July 1. In its online platform, derstandard.at summarized in detail what will apply from Thursday. Question: In what particular places should I still use the FFP2 mask? Answer: A mask obligation will give it, so at least that was announced, only in public, business and museums, thus everywhere, where no three-G-proof must be furnished. As far as is known so far, however, a mouth-nose protection will be sufficient in these…

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New infection figures have so far continued to decline in Austria despite the spread of the more contagious delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With 63 new infections today, the seven-day average dropped to 93 new infections daily. Covid-19 patients receiving hospital care also continued to decline. The seven-day incidence is now 7.3 cases per 100,000 population. As of Monday, there were thus still 2,078 active cases in Austria – 59 fewer than on Sunday. A month ago – on May 28 – there had been 6,306 actively infected people,…

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Austria has ordered 1.2 million vaccine doses. In Upper and Lower Austria, thousands of vaccination appointments are still available, while Vienna is well booked. About 1.2 million vaccine doses are scheduled to be delivered to Austria this week (week 26). According to Ages, 559,260 doses from BioNTech/Pfizer and 68,400 doses from Moderna have been firmly confirmed by manufacturers. 537,600 doses from AstraZeneca and 79,200 from Johnson&Johnson have been additionally ordered. However, in the case of AstraZeneca, it is uncertain (as is often the case) whether the promised delivery volumes will…

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