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According to the United Nations, nearly 700,000 people have left Ukraine for neighboring countries since Thursday’s Russian invasion. According to the government in Warsaw, kilometer-long lines are entering Poland, and people have to wait up to 60 hours, although waiting times have been shortened. The U.N. said that queues at the border with Romania are up to 20 kilometers long. Most people are fleeing west to neighboring countries such as Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. The number of refugees is growing “exponentially,” a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said…

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The Civil Defense Association of Lower Austria urges people to take precautions for general emergencies. Elevated radiation levels around the ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had recently alarmed the population. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there was no cause for concern. The reason was radioactively contaminated soil stirred up by the Russian military’s capture of the accident reactor. At present, there is no acute danger of a radioactive incident, but the As an example, the creation of a food stockpile was mentioned. The main task…

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Vaccinations start this week with the protein vaccine. The most important questions and answers. It is vaccine number five against the new coronavirus: this week, the Covid vaccinations prepare Nuvaxovid of the U.S. company Novavax. 1.1 million doses have arrived in Austria so far – in a warehouse of one of the member companies of the Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (Phago). Currently, delivery to the provinces is already in full swing. In total, the Ministry of Health has ordered 3.1 million doses for the first quarter of this year. Several…

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On Sunday evening, thousands of demonstrators gathered at Vienna’s Heldenplatz to express their solidarity with Ukraine in a sea of lights organized by the #YesWeCare initiative. With the Outer Burgtor, the first federal building in Vienna was also draped in the Ukrainian national colors of blue and yellow. Sea of lights for Ukraine in Vienna “The war was there, and it was relatively clear that we wanted to do a ‘#YesWeCare’ also for the situation in Ukraine,” organizer Daniel Landau said. He said he knew that many people in Ukraine…

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According to a new study, most people infected with omicron were still contagious on day six. Since January 8, infected Austrians and contact persons can be tested for the virus after five days – previously ten days – using PCR. Given the sharp increase in the number of people infected with the Omicron variant and the resulting loss of workforce, there have been calls from the business community and others for the quarantine period to be shortened. Covid crisis coordinator Gecko had advised the government against shortening the quarantine even…

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The Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhya operator reports that unit 6 is disconnected from the grid. Unit 5 was also shut down shortly before!” This breaking news set alarm bells ringing among nuclear experts Friday morning. “If the cooling system fails or missiles hit the reactors, all of Europe would be exposed to a nuclear disaster. After all, Zaporizhzhya is the world’s largest reactor site,” GLOBAL 2000 expert Reinhard Uhrig said worriedly given the first impacts in the region. Earlier, expert Dr. Cornelius Granig had warned of a chain reaction:…

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Pope Francis has spoken out in a Russian tweet about the war in Ukraine. “Every war leaves the world worse than it found it,” the head of the Catholic Church wrote Friday on the online service Twitter. “War is a failure of politics and humanity, a shameful surrender, a defeat in the face of the forces of evil.” From a 2020 encyclical by the pope, the quote was shared on Twitter in the usual languages of Italian, Portuguese, Polish, French, English, Spanish, German, and Arabic – and, for once, Russian.…

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Chancellor Karl Nehammer stated on the occasion of the events in Ukraine. “There is war again in Europe,” Karl Nehammer declared during his statement on Thursday on the occasion of the events in Ukraine. It is thanks to Russia that “we have been freed from Nazi terror,” Nehammer said. “At the same time, we are now seeing Russia choose a path that we deeply reject,” the chancellor explained. He said the strength of the law applies, not “the law of the strongest.” European history is written in blood, he said.…

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According to a study, at least 5.2 million children and adolescents worldwide have lost a parent or caregiver in connection with the Corona pandemic through last fall. Their number thus exceeds the five million Corona deaths recorded during the 20-month study period (March 2020 to October 2021), international researchers found and announced Thursday in the journal Lancet Child Adolescent Health. That means that for every Corona death, more than one minor has lost a parent or guardian. For their evaluation, the scientists, who work at Imperial College in London and…

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