Category: Austrian News

With the approval of the second vaccine from Moderna, more vaccine is now available, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said, as reported by the Austrian daily “diepresse”. As a result, vaccinations will be given to all elderly persons not living in nursing or retirement homes. “The sooner we vaccinate the older generation and vulnerable groups, the better we will relieve the burden on hospitals and intensive care units,” Kurz said. Protecting these people will be the focus of vaccinations in the coming weeks, he said.After criticism of the slow start of the…

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The second round of the coronavirus vaccination campaign began in Vienna on Wednesday. Another 15 facilities will be supplied by January 12. A total of about 5,000 doses are to be handed out. The vaccines will be administered mainly in senior or nursing facilities, as well as in covid wards in hospitals. In “Wien heute, Heinz Stieb head of the pandemic board at the city’s retirement homes said that 60 to 80 percent of residents and 50 to 70 percent of employees are currently interested in vaccination. After the second…

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Vienna. Health and Interior Ministries reported Wednesday 2,469 new infections and 68 deaths. Across Austria, 6,525 people have died so far as a result of the Corona virus, while 344,974 have recovered. To date, there have been 372,190 positive test results in Austria. Currently, 2,383 (minus 21) people are undergoing hospital treatment, of which 361 (minus ten) are in intensive care units. Thus, 20,691 people in Austria were confirmed active cases.The new infections since the last report are divided among the provinces of Austria as follows: Burgenland: 82Carinthia: 80Lower Austria:…

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The spokesman of the City Health Councilor Peter Hacker confirmed on Tuesday that Vienna is not thinking of postponing or even canceling the second round of coronavirus mass tests. The construction work for the screening beginning on Friday (8.1) is already in progress. The tests will again be carried out at the three locations: In the Stadthalle, the Messe Wien and the Marx Halle. The new mass testing in the federal capital will again last ten days, ending on 17 January. The fact that other federal states are doing without…

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Austria is currently receiving 63,000 vaccine doses per calendar week to protect against coronavirus infection. By the end of this week, a total of about 126,000 doses of vaccine will have arrived. As of today, Tuesday, 8,360 doses have been delivered. These figures were announced by the Ministry of Health at noon Tuesday. The majority of the 8,360 doses are likely to have already been injected. “They must be vaccinated immediately after allocation,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Health said in this regard. According to the statement, the delivered…

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The number of Covid 19 deaths in Austria is rising again. On Tuesday, the health and interior ministries reported 100 more deaths. This means 6457 people have already died from or with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. Also increased are the numbers of sick people who have to be treated in hospital. In the past 24 hours, more than 2300 new infections have been reported. For the first time in a week, 100 deaths have been reported in Austria, and the seven-day incidence of new infections has also been rising…

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The “Free/Voluntary Covid 19 test” project has failed because of a blockade by the opposition. Too many questions were unanswered at the end, the review period for the amendment was too short and the corona infection figures are still too high. In the Austrian Parliament, the law on free testing could have been passed with votes from the ÖVP and Greens, but the SPÖ, FPÖ and Neos have a slim majority and could have blocked the law for up to eight weeks. The government therefore abandoned its plan – and…

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Daily news from the Ministry of Interior and Health indicates that 1,642 positive coronatests have been reported in the past 24 hours. To date, there have been 367,410 positive test results in Austria. As of today (January 4, 2021, 09:30), 6,357 people across Austria have died as a result of coronavirus (+33 compared to the previous day) and 340,273 have recovered. Currently, 2,321 people are in hospital care due to the coronavirus (+ 94 compared to the previous day) and of these, 368 of the ill are in intensive care…

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The lockdown ending on January 18 is history. Exit restrictions and business shutdown remain in place. Those who did not want to be subject to the 24-hour curfew and other lockdown measures until January 24, 2021, inclusive, were supposed to be given the opportunity to “test free” from the lockdown starting January 18. This has now failed. The SPÖ, FPÖ and Neos refused to approve the planned law in the Bundesrat, thus bringing it to an end because it can no longer enter into force in time before January 18.…

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