Category: Austrian News

“We have a testing strategy in Austria where we do not simply test into the masses,” said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober at a press conference on Wednesday. He said that clear priorities have always been set in controlling the pandemic corona situation: “The first group to be tested are people with symptoms. Starting tomorrow, it will be possible for doctors in private practice to take voluntary action in this process. This is an important reinforcement.” As before, in addition to patients with symptoms, special screening tests are still planned wherever…

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The infection figures have increased strongly in Austria in autumn. From 23 October new rules for handling the virus will apply. These include restrictions on persons at meetings as well as the wearing of a mouth and nose protector. The Austrian government is responding to the rising infection figures by tightening up measures. Events are mainly affected by this. Extra-professional meetings are to be limited to a maximum of six adults indoors and twelve outside. This applies everywhere – in restaurants, at yoga classes, in dance schools, at birthday parties…

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Almost 11,000 new cases in seven days. Eight percent of those tested positive. Yesterday, another 1,524 new corona infections were registered in Austria. In the past seven days, there were almost 11,000 new cases. The positivity rate (proportion of those tested positive) is already at almost eight percent. Hospitalization rates have also risen from 621 to 889 in the past seven days. The seven-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants was yesterday in Austria at 114. 50 is the value, starting from which the European Union traffic light switches a country on…

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The number of active coronavirus cases in Austria (as of 14.00 today) is 19,910, according to the figures of the AGES dashboard, which recently replaced that of the Ministry of Health. This was accompanied by a leap in the number of those currently infected, as around 2,000 convalescents had not yet been registered in the new system. The difference now amounts to around 1,000 cases. In addition, new cases are no longer assigned to the registration date, but to the date of laboratory diagnosis, which may have taken place days…

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz continues to assume that a vaccination against the coronavirus will be available in the first half of 2021. “From today’s point of view, all this is possible in the first half of next year,” the Chancellor said. “I stand by my assessment: we should be able to return to normality by next summer,” the head of government told ZiB1 on Monday. At the same time he warned: “But until then it will still be a very, very hard autumn and winter. Kurz did not explicitly rule…

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Starting next Friday new rules for meetings will apply. The government appeals to adhere to them so that Austria will be spared an even tougher pace. What rules apply to meetings?Indoors only six people are allowed to meet, outdoors only twelve. This includes all meetings that do not take place within one’s own four walls and have no assigned seats. Every group that meets, no matter for what purpose, is bound by the six-person rule indoors and the twelve-person rule outdoors. The big exception is the workplace, but home office…

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Government presented a variety of new corona measures. The mask obligation is extended, meetings massively reduced. On Monday, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz presented a series of new tightenings in the fight against corona. The Chancellor appealed to the population to comply with the measures. The infections are increasing exponentially again. There is the threat of 6,000 new infections per day in December if no countermeasures are taken. The new measures:1.) Tightening of existing regulations at events and private gatherings: Without assigned seats, 6 people are allowed to meet indoors and 12…

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For weeks the coronavirus numbers have been rising, on Saturday a new peak value was recorded for new infections, and for the first time since the spring, Kuchl in Salzburg is a community under complete quarantine. The situation forces the government to act. On Monday, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz – together with Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober and Interior Minister Karl Nehammer – announced nationwide tightening of the regulations: Meetings starting from Friday, 0:00 o’clock are massively reduced: For private meetings, only a maximum of six (adult)…

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With 1,672 new infections in Austria, the number of people who became infected with the coronavirus within 24 hours was again high on Sunday. This is almost twice as many new confirmed cases as in the comparable period on Sunday before. On Saturday, a record number of 1,747 new infections had been reported. Most cases were in Vienna (431) ahead of Lower Austria (356) and Upper Austria (274).On Sunday, 742 people were undergoing hospital treatment for Covid-19 and 135 of them were in intensive care, the Interior Ministry reported. The…

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