Category: Austrian News

Vienna, 21 August 2020 – Not only Austria is tightening its entry requirements due to the increasing number of corona infections, but also the travel warning for the Spanish Balearic Islands will come into force on Monday. Germany has now also classified parts of Croatia as corona crisis areas. Austrians are also affected by new entry restrictions imposed by other countries. Norway imposed a ten-day compulsory quarantine on all persons entering from Austria. It will apply from Saturday, 0 o’clock. The reason given is that travellers have to be quarantined…

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The highest number of infections in Austria had been registered  in mid-April 2020: Today,  20 August 2020, 347 new infections were counted in the last 24 hours.So far, there have been 24,431 positive test results in Austria. As of today (20 August 2020, 09:30 a.m.), 729 people throughout Austria have died as a result of the corona virus and 21,093 have recovered. Currently 116 persons are undergoing corona-related hospital treatment – 21 of them in intensive care units. New infections by federal provinces: Burgenland: 5Carinthia: 6Lower Austria: 21Upper Austria: 67Salzburg:…

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In a press statement today, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz commented on travel warnings and the current situation. “The virus is coming into Austria by car.” This was said by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) to media representatives on Sunday, warning of worrisome developments in the Western Balkan countries, which are also popular destinations for Austrians going to the seaside. He called for increased checks at the borders by the health authorities. A travel warning for Croatia will come into force on Monday. From then on, returnees will have to present a valid…

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Within 24 hours, 303 new infections were recorded – the highest number since early April.More than 300 new infections with the coronavirus have been recorded nationwide in the past 24 hours. This was announced by the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday morning. It is the highest daily growth rate since the beginning of April. The increase has once again surpassed that from Thursday to Friday, which Health Minister Rudolf Anschober had called worrying. According to the Ministry of the Interior, exactly 303 new cases were registered, 131 of them…

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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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