Category: Austrian News

Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) demands stricter controls of returnees at the borders. “Stricter controls are needed here. It is urgently necessary for the health authorities to ensure that more comprehensive checks are carried out here than in the past,” Kurz said in the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper “Österreich”.Kurz also considers sensible that corona tests for returnees should be carried out directly at the border. “The health authorities must perform their work better. This concerns the performance of tests. It still takes too long for the people concerned…

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14.08.2020 – In Austria there are 282 new infections. Health Minister Anschober attributes this to the high number of tests. The number of SARS-CoV-2 tests in Austria has risen significantly, as has the number of new infections.   “We have the fact that we have passed a really important mark today. We have more than one million tests. (…) Today (within 24 hours) we have 282 new infections,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschoberin  announced Vienna on Friday. “We have 1,003,432 tests. That is a sign that we are very active in the…

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Heavy storms have hit Vienna yesterday. The Viennese professional fire brigade had been on continuous duty since 17:30 hrs and had to complete about 100 operations since then due to the heavy rain. Since 18.00 o’clock there has been increased alert. Lukas Schauer, spokesman of the fire brigade, informed the APA that the operations were due to fallen trees, broken branches, flooded cellars or water ingresses into apartments. Initially, there was no information about people who had been injured. — hector pascua/agencies

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Vienna, 13.08.2020 –  155 new infections with the coronavirus within 24 hours in Austria (as of 9.30 a.m.) were reported by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health on Thursday. There was a slight decrease in the number of persons treated in hospital as well as in the number of intensive care patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: 114, of which 22 intensive care cases after 118 with 25 intensive care cases on Wednesday. However, the number of deaths related to Covid-19 increased by one person and is now…

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Within the framework of the state-funded Corona test programme for tourism businesses, a good 65,000 tests have been carried out so far, and 2,256 businesses have taken part in the programme, the Ministry of Tourism announced on Wednesday. In the future, the number of tests will be published every week on the platform www.sichere-gastfreundschaft.at/beherbergung. Since July, the Federal Government has been promoting corona tests in tourism businesses with a maximum of 85 euros per test – every employee can have himself examined once a week. Up to 150 million euros…

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Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) has clearly rejected the use of the world’s first approved corona vaccine presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week. “For the EU and thus for Austria an insufficiently tested vaccine is out of the question”, the Minister said in a statement on Wednesday. There are clear rules for testing vaccines – and these must also be adhered to “100 per cent” in the case of a vaccine against the coronavirus, the Ministry of Health reacted to the current debate on the approval of…

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The FPÖ presented its candidates for the Vienna elections in October. There were no surprises. As the last of the parties represented in the municipal council, the FPÖ now also presented its team of candidates for the Vienna elections on 11 October. The Blue Party is not interested in lateral entrants. The national list is characterised by “reliability, consistency and experience”, explained top candidate Dominik Nepp at a press conference. Thus, the top positions on the list are almost exclusively occupied by people who are already represented in the provincial…

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The regulations for the testing of vaccines must also be complied with 100 percent in the case of coronavirus. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober emphasized this with regard to the approval of a Russian vaccine. “An insufficiently tested vaccine is out of the question for the EU and thus for Austria,” he assured in a mailing.“Quality and safety” is therefore the priority. Currently, applications for approvals for coronavirus vaccines can be processed more quickly at the European Medicines Agency EMA. This does not mean that less data on the safety and…

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The trend on Monday continues: the new infections are again lower than the remaining days.From Sunday to Monday 73 new corona cases were added in Austria. Similar to previous weeks, the number of new infections on Monday is again lower than the days before. In addition to the 73 new cases, 87 new convalescents and also two deaths have been reported. In total, 22,106 people in Austria tested positive for Covid-19, and there are currently 1,373 infected persons. As in the last few days, the front-runner among the new infections…

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