Category: Austrian News

A powerful snow roll will roll over large parts of Austria in the coming days – Vienna will now be transformed into a winter wonderland. The large-scale weather situation has changed in Austria! Several small-scale low-pressure areas now determine the weather pattern in Central Europe, and due to the inflow of polar cold air, this has also resulted in increased snow down to low altitudes. The first load of fresh snow was on Monday, especially in Carinthia. It has snowed locally up to 50 centimetres, but even in the Klagenfurt…

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The manager of Vienna’s municipal housing, Wiener Wohnen, warns against fraudulent letters. In them, tenants are asked to transfer the rent to a new account. Many tenants have received letters in their mailboxes in recent days. In them were fake rent notices. The letter looks deceptively real: it is pointed out that Wiener Wohnen has changed the account number. In addition to the new account number – which belongs to the banking institution BAWAG – the further rent notice is also listed, including a QR code. Fake account details –…

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The pandemic will soon be over in Austria, at least legally. Health Minister Johannes Rauch announced abolishing all Corona laws and regulations in the year. Corona should no longer be a notifiable disease. According to the department head, the massive covid wave in China also no longer poses a significant threat. At the same time, the minister wants to learn the proper lessons from the past years and adapt the epidemic law. This is “not fit to fight a pandemic,” he said. By opening the Chinese borders despite the massive…

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The weekend weather is mild before a cold front moves in on Friday. GeoSphere Austria (formerly ZAMG) predicts partly heavier snowfall; more significant amounts of snow are expected between Upper Carinthia and Southern Styria. On Friday, dense clouds with rain and snow above 1,200 meters prevail except in the south. In the afternoon, the clouds in the inner Alps and the southwest will clear up again, and the northern side of the Alps will get into a northwesterly flow with partly persistent precipitation. Early temperatures range from minus four to…

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On Wednesday, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference published the official figures for 2021. These show that after the Corona Year 2020, many ecclesiastical celebrations were made up. A conclusion: in baptisms, marriages, first communions and confirmations, many celebrations were made up due to the relaxation of the Corona measures, which were not possible in 2020. There were slight decreases, as always, in priests and religious. Many ecclesiastical celebrations were made up after the 2020 corona yearThe number of baptisms in 2021 was 45,541, a massive increase over 2020 (32,521). According to…

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The Settlement Regulation provides for a total of 5,951 quota places. In reality, however, there is more immigration. Most of the quota places – namely about 2,900 – are in Vienna. On Wednesday, the Council of Ministers adopted the Settlement Regulation, which regulates immigration to Austria from non-EU countries. It provides for a total of 5,951 quota places. In the calendar year 2022, there were 6,020. However, immigration is higher because, for example, the Red-White-Red Card is not regulated by the ordinance. Family reunification accounts for by far the largest…

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The highly contagious Omicron subline XBB.1.5 is already dominating the infection scene in the USA. The first cases appeared in Austria. Before the Christmas vacations and the turn of the year, the omicron subvariants BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and BQ.1.1.10 took the lead in the coronavirus race in Austria. But that could quickly change again: since mid-December, the corona variant XBB.1.5 has dominated in the northeastern U.S., and its share is already increasing in other parts of the Americas. According to expert estimates, the Omicron subline could also spread in Europe in…

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Corona numbers in Austria remain stable but are falling again. Most recently, however, recoveries declined significantly, and hospital numbers increased. So far, the new year has brought 2,685 new Corona cases on Sunday, 1,257 reported infections on Monday, just over 3,000 infections on Tuesday, 3,710 new infections on Wednesday, 3,159 new diseases on Thursday and 2,903 new viral cases on Friday. According to “heute.at” information on Saturday, there are currently 1,492 new Corona cases in the latest 24 hours. There are also two Corona deaths and 2,259 recoveries reported. A…

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Warm temperatures come to an abrupt end on Sunday. Instead, the high fog now finds its way back – the snow is also coming back. From Sunday afternoon and on Monday, a weakly active front of an Atlantic low and an Italian low slowly starting to form will again provide unsettled weather, according to the experts at the UBIMET weather center. Temperatures drop somewhat but remain above the seasonal average. On Sunday, clouds predominate, and tenacious high fog patches persist away from the Alps. The sun can be seen most…

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