Category: Austrian News

From Tuesday to Wednesday, there were 400 new infections in Austria. Compared to the previous week (445), this is a minus of 45 cases. This also brings the 7-day incidence down to 33.36. There were also 561 new recovered cases, so the number of active cases also decreased to 4,657. In addition, there are six deaths related to Covid-19. A total of 110,245 new PCR tests were performed in the past 24 hours. This puts the positive rate at 0.36 percent. The new infections in the provincesVienna: 158Lower Austria: 80Upper…

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More and more Austrians want to be vaccinated. This is shown by the latest data from the Chancellery and the Ministry of Health. Last year, only one-third of the population aged 16 and older was willing to protect themselves with a shot against Corona. Since then, the proportion has risen extremely steeply. Currently, it is already more than 70%. Of those over 65, 76% already want to be protected. Second big rushThe second big rush to vaccinate is just getting underway. On Monday, the EU also released the Biontech-Pfizer vaccine…

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Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) addresses the approval of the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds. Until school starts up again, he said, they want a high vaccination coverage rate among young people. In June, he said, there will also be enough vaccine for those who want to be vaccinated. Everyone can be sure that they will get a vaccination if they want it, says the health minister. Vaccination preparedness helps achieve herd immunity sooner, he said. There is enough vaccine in June, Kurz concludes. However, the number of vaccinated…

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From Monday to Tuesday, there were 337 new Corona infections in Austria. Compared to the previous week (398), there are 61 cases less. Thus, the 7-day incidence also decreases slightly. For the first time since September 11 of last year, there are fewer than 5,000 active coronavirus infections in Austria. There were 4,824 active cases, according to Health and Interior Ministry figures (as of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday), down from 4,820 on Sept. 11. By comparison, there were more than 77,000 active cases in Austria at the peak of the second…

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The “3-G rule” – vaccinated, tested or recovered – is supposed to make public life possible again and reduce CoV infections to a minimum. The penalties for not following these guidelines are correspondingly high. If someone presents a falsified test result or vaccination certificate and is caught, it is anything but a trivial offense, experts warn. It is document forgery, punishable by up to one year in prison or up to 720 daily fines, according to police. It is of course also illegal to show valid test results or vaccination…

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There were 229 new Corona infections in Austria on Monday.Thanks to data cleanups in Vienna and Salzburg, the number of new Corona infections dropped to 229 on Monday, the last time there were this few new cases was in June of last year. Both Vienna and Salzburg reported negative case counts Monday. Thus, as of May 31, Vorarlberg and Lower Austria ranked first with 56 new Corona cases each. Current new corona infections in the provincesBurgenland: 9Carinthia: 11Lower Austria: 56Upper Austria: 25Salzburg: -1 (data adjustment)Styria: 47Tyrol: 40Vorarlberg: 56Vienna: -14 (data…

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CoV testing will remain free for at least a few more months. “Testing will remain free over the summer at any rate,” said Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) yesterday evening in the ORF discussion program “Im Zentrum”. With the timetable announced by the government, until the end of June to enable all those willing to vaccinate the first dose, Mückstein remains despite doubts of individual provinces: “This results from the vaccine doses delivered to Austria.” For air filters in school buildingsHowever, it will not be possible to vaccinate the 12-…

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From Saturday to Sunday, 379 new Corona infections were reported in Austria. As usual on Sunday, this is significantly less than the seven-day average of currently 458. So far, there have been 644,586 positive test results in Austria. As of today, 10,596 people have died and 628,312 have recovered nationwide in connection with coronavirus. Currently, 413 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus, 151 of them in intensive care units (previously there had been talk of 191 people, the figure has since been revised downwards). This number dropped…

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Fewer vaccinations were reported compared to an average business day in Austria. Exactly 59,000 doses administered were added on Saturday to reach the total now more than five million. In total, 3,591,408 people received at least a partial vaccination, according to E-vaccine data. Thus, another prominent mark in vaccinations was surpassed over the weekend, with more than 40 percent (40.3) of the total population vaccinated. Of these, 1,489,265, or 16.7 percent of Austria’s population, have already been fully immunized. Of the population aged 85 and older, 72.4 percent have been…

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