Category: Austrian News

294 new infections have been registered in the federal capital since the previous day. At the same time, there have been 21 deaths. As of Thursday, January 15, 2021, 77,843 positive tests have been confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Vienna Regional Health Directorate and the Medical Crisis Staff in Vienna. In the past 24 hours, 294 new infections were again added – a worrying peak value among the provinces as the overview shows. The number of deaths linked to the virus now stands at 1,269,…

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Starting Monday, the new CoV self-tests for students and teachers will be used in schools – but only to a limited extent due to the postponed return to classroom instruction. With the anterio-nasal tests, a simple swab in the front of the nose is sufficient; a result is available after about 15 minutes. In the future, the tests will be scheduled once a week on Mondays. Delivery will begin at the weekend, and by Monday or Tuesday at the latest, all schools will be equipped with test kits. However, testing…

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In addition, there are 66 new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection. From Thursday to Friday, there are 1,528 new Corona infections in Austria. This means that the number of new infections has dropped again compared to Thursday, but also because Thursday’s report included follow-up reports from Carinthia and Upper Austria. There are also 2,283 new recoveries. Thus, the number of active cases also decreases. There are also 66 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection. The figures from the provincesVienna: 294Lower Austria: 281Upper Austria: 263Styria: 197Salzburg: 129Carinthia: 107Tyrol: 97Vorarlberg:…

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A dashboard showing the status of Corona vaccinations went online on the Ministry of Health’s website on Tuesday evening. There you can see how many people in Austria have already been vaccinated against COVID-19. However, this is only theoretical – the figures are not based on vaccinations actually carried out, but are calculated on the basis of the vaccines delivered. The whole thing is also broken down by province. In addition, the dashboard shows the number of vaccine doses requested by Austrian healthcare facilities in the Bundesbeschaffung GmbH e-shop. By…

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This weekend, the government will decide how to proceed with the lockdown, i.e. which opening steps should take place from January 25. Tomorrow there will still be talks with the provincial governors and social partners. However, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) put the brakes on overly high expectations in an interview with the APA yesterday: The situation is a “highly volatile” one, one must continue to “proceed extremely cautiously,” he said. Currently, Austria has around 2,000 new infections per day, and the 7-day incidence is around 150, putting it in the…

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The first major vaccination campaign against the coronavirus will start in Vienna on Friday. Around 11,000 people are expected to receive their first jab over the next four days at Messe Wien. The majority of these doses are reserved for physicians in private practice and their staff. But also personnel of emergency services and mobile care as well as some midwives will be immunized at the total of 14 vaccination lines. There had been great interest among the target groups in the appointments to be made in advance. For example,…

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According to the Austrian Press Agency Health Minister Rudolf Anschober announced that vaccinations against the coronavirus for “about 600,000 people” will be accomplished in Austria in the first quarter. So far, 180,000 doses from Biontech/Pfizer and 10,000 from Moderna have been delivered to Austria, he reported during a local inspection at a nursing home in Klosterneuburg. By the end of the quarter, nearly 1.2 million vaccine doses from the two manufacturers are to be delivered. Anschober said that “large orders” had also been placed for the vaccine from AstraZeneca, which…

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Minister of Culture extends agreement with all 16 religious societies – regulation is analogous to the lockdown currently in effectThe churches and religious societies, in consultation with Minister of Culture Susanne Raab, have extended the Corona agreement currently in force: analogous to the generally applicable lockdown, public religious services will be suspended until the end of next week for the time being. How it continues after that, will be agreed according to the then valid new general regulations, announced the Ministry to Kathpress on Thursday. As is already the case,…

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While the fear of the Corona mutation is also going around in Austria, the numbers of daily new infections continue at a very high level. The headline Thursday morning was cause for grave concern: within just 24 hours, Austria-wide infection figures are said to have risen from around 1,900 to more than 3,500 Corona cases – in the middle of a tough lockdown. The increase was particularly dramatic in Carinthia: Cases are said to have increased more than sixfold in the southernmost province, rising from 165 to 1,073. As “heute.at”…

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