Category: Austrian News

The Vienna City Council elections on October 11, 2020, bring a record number of postal votes. In the meantime, about 340,000 voting cards have been applied for (Friday morning there were 336,000). This already represents 30 percent of the eligible voters. How the postal vote worksThe application period (for personal collection) ends on Friday at 12 noon. Voter turnout should not suffer too much from the Corona pandemic. Advertising for postal voting due to Corona pandemicIn view of the coronavirus pandemic, the possibility of postal voting was strongly promoted by…

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Seven months after the outbreak of the corona wave in Austria, infection levels reach a new, sad peak. The 1,000 infections has been broken again. Within 24 hours, 1,058 people in Austria tested positive for corona viruses. This value was only beaten once since the beginning of the pandemic: on March 26 (1,065 infections). Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) speaks of a “worryingly high number”. The Ministry of Health calculates an alarming increase in new infections of 2.3 percent compared to the previous day. Vienna worst. The next negative record:…

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The effective reproduction figure for Austria is below 1.0 for the first time since 10 August. 0.99 additional persons were infected by an infected person on average, as can be seen from the calculations of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and the Technical University of Graz. “The number of newly diagnosed cases every day is still at an increased level”, was however stressed in the update published yesterday afternoon on the AGES website. Few cases – large fluctuationsThe period under investigation was September 17 to 29. The…

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From now on the mouth nose protection must be worn upon entering the buildings of the public transport system.Wiener Linien is adapting its corona protection measures to the requirements of the federal government: Immediately the mouth nose protection applies not only in the vehicles and on the subway platforms, but in all Viennese lines buildings upon entering the entrance area.“The fact is: The mask obligation in the Öffis helps us to prevent infections and the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 – even with high person frequency, says the environmental physician Hans-Peter…

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The number of new infections in the past 24 hours was 688 on Friday, well below the 873 reported the day before by the Ministry of the Interior. On the other hand, the number of actively ill persons rose slightly from 8,370 to 8,385. This was a “stabilization at a level that was clearly too high,” said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober in a press conference on Friday. Nevertheless, it was good news, as Anschober said the figures had settled at 600 to 800 cases per day. In addition, the tests…

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The number of new infections is also increasing at schools. Most of the cases were again recorded in Vienna. 1,218 students and 178 teachers have tested positive for the coronavirus in Austria as of Thursday, as the Ministry of Education has announced. That is about 0.1 percent of the 1.1 million students and 123,000 teachers. In addition, there are 51 positive cases among the administrative staff. Most reported cases were in Vienna with 557 currently corona-positive students and 64 teachers, followed by Upper Austria (164/24), Lower Austria (159/23), Tyrol (102/16),…

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Already yesterday, 609 new infections were reported – today the numbers increased again. The number of new coronavirus infections has increased again in the last 24 hours. 772 new infections were reported on Wednesday. Already on Tuesday there were 609 new cases. So far, there have been 44,813 positive test results in Austria. As of today (September 30, 2020, 09:30 a.m.), 799 people throughout Austria have died as a result of the corona virus and 35,644 have recovered. At present, 496 people are undergoing hospital treatment due to the corona…

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The Viennese Gastro Voucher campaign cost the City of Vienna 39 million euros. It was intended to support the catering industry, which had been hit by the Corona pandemic. Vienna – The Vienna Gastro Voucher is expiring. Whoever still wants to redeem the voucher in a Viennese restaurant or in the coffee house around the corner must do so until Wednesday. Because afterwards this is no longer possible. Gastro Vouchers were sent to all Viennese households in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce starting in June. One-person household received 25…

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September breaks a sad record: with 16,600 new infections, there were more new corona positives this month than ever before in a single month. The previous peak was in March – during the lockdown and the first wave – with 9,700 new infections, in April they fell to 5,100. Vienna alone had 7,700 new infections in March, which is more cases than in April, May and June combined. Vienna also broke the record for hospitalizations on Monday. Overall, the hospitalization rate in Austria rose by 25 percent in just one…

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