Category: Austrian News

Fraudsters will go to great lengths to deceive people – and, in the worst-case scenario, steal their data and money. Time and again, fake messages that purport to come from well-known institutions or companies are intended to trick people into entering their data. After numerous Austrians recently received fake messages purporting to be the receipt of postal parcels, the Ministry of Finance (BMF) is now warning of the following scam: An increasing number of fake SMS and email messages are being sent to citizens in the name of the Austrian…

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You notice it in the office, with your family, or even on the subway. A particularly large number of people in Austria are currently ill. Last week, around 42,000 people were on sick leave with COVID-19. And that’s just the confirmed figure; the number of unreported cases will likely be even higher. In fact, wastewater monitoring shows that the current coronavirus wave is higher than ever. Never before since the pandemic outbreak have there been so many coronavirus infections. Analysis of the wastewater also clarifies why so many people are…

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The weather is going completely crazy. It is historically the hottest year ever. Nevertheless, at the end of last week, we had numerous “ice days” (temperatures remained below freezing) and heavy snowfall. Heavy rainfall and melting snowNow, however, very warm air masses are reaching us again. The temperature is already rising to 12 degrees today. Heavy rain in the west. There is a risk of snow slabs on the mountains. The probability of flooding increases at lower altitudes. A lot of rain“It will rain a lot in Tyrol, Vorarlberg, and…

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On Saturday, with the passage of an Atlantic disturbance, there will be a lot of clouds and some snowfall, especially from Salzburg eastwards, which is likely to change to rain at low altitudes increasingly. In the transitional phase, grains of ice or freezing raindrops are also possible. Further west and south, the clouds will clear during the day, and the sun will prevail. The wind will be light from the east to the south-west. From minus eight to plus two degrees in the morning, with highs in the west, temperatures…

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Vienna – According to the Geosphere Austria forecast, the weather will be significantly milder, especially at the beginning of the week. The country’s west will see significantly warmer temperatures as early as the weekend. The snow in the lowlands is likely to be over for now. On Friday, the public holiday, fog patches and high fog will persist over the lowlands in the north, east, and eastern edge of the Alps, south-eastern Styria, and inner-Alpine basins and valleys. Due to the regional south-east wind, however, the sun may fight its…

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“There hasn’t been as much snow at low altitudes in Austria in December as there is at the moment,” explained climatologist Alexander Orlik on Monday. The icy temperatures in Austria are here to stay, as it will remain extremely wintry in the coming days. “There hasn’t been as much snow at low altitudes in Austria in December as there is at the moment for a long time,” said Orlik from Geosphere Austria (formerly ZAMG) on Monday. Bregenz, Innsbruck, and Salzburg currently have around 20 centimeters of snow. “The last time…

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The end of the cell phone signature was officially decided recently: from December 5, you will no longer be able to use it to log in to oesterreich.gv.at and the “Digitales Amt” app. This is causing concern among some people: How are we supposed to deal with digital official channels in the future? Do you have to go to the municipal office to be activated for the successor system, ID Austria? Cell phone signature becomes “ID Austria with the basic function”“Nobody needs to worry that they won’t be able to…

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Corona numbers continue to rise, hospitals are filling up, and the end of the wave is nowhere in sight. COVID-19 has no longer been notifiable since the summer of 2023. However, the virus has not disappeared; quite the opposite: the coronavirus load in wastewater is currently higher than ever before. Experts, such as molecular biologist Ulrich Elling, predict that the peak of the wave has not yet been reached. “The levels are continuing to rise sharply in all federal states,” the expert said in an interview with “Heute.” This is…

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Austria is experiencing the highest wave since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At least, that’s the alarming call from microbiologist Ulrich Elling. A look at the wastewater monitoring confirms this. The curve has reached its highest point since measurements began. At the same time, the protein corona vaccine from Novavax, adapted to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5, has now reached Austria. XBB.1.5 and its offspring are currently among the most prevalent variants in Austria and are responsible for around 800 hospitalizations throughout Austria. The vaccine will be available from all…

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