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Nearly one in three people in the world cannot adequately feed themselves. Corona is causing one of the sharpest increases in hunger in decades. Yet the pandemic is just the tip of the iceberg, the United Nations warns. The Corona pandemic has increased the number of people suffering from hunger worldwide by 18 percent, according to a U.N. report. The “economic collapses resulting from the Corona response around the world have led to one of the worst increases in global hunger in decades,” according to a joint report by several…

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Amnesty International is calling on governments and companies in wealthier nations to ensure “equitable access to vaccines” in the fight against the Corona pandemic. There is still “one Covid 19 death every 11 seconds – mostly in low-income countries,” Amnesty International International Secretary General Agnès Callamard stressed in a release from the human rights organization on Thursday. Hardly any vaccines for low-income countriesEighty-five percent of the vaccine doses were administered in high- and middle-income countries, according to Amnesty. Only 0.3 percent of doses were given in low-income countries, according to…

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Apparently, it is possible to become infected with different variants of the coronavirus at the same time. Belgian scientists are tracking down a disturbing finding: There are covid patients who contract different variants of the virus at the same time. These are still isolated cases because studies are lacking. But experts believe co-infections are an underestimated phenomenon. In Belgium, a 90-year-old woman died after being infected with two different variants of the coronavirus at the same time. According to scientists, the unvaccinated woman lived alone at home, where she was…

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Goods ordered, parcel intercepted – this is how fraudsters get hold of expensive goods. Police are warning of a new scam: criminals order expensive goods on the Internet under someone else’s name. During delivery, they intercept the parcel carrier and take delivery of the goods. The invoice is sent to the address given when the order was placed. This form of fraud is also called identity theft. This is how parcel fraud works A prerequisite for the parcel scam: The mail order company offers purchase on account. For this type…

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In England, the corona mutant delta has already replaced variant alpha. B.1.617.2 is even more contagious than variant alpha and is also one of the coronavirus variants of concern. Such is the trend in Austria and Europe. Variant Alpha is currently the most widespread virus variant in Europe. However, since the mutant Delta (B.1.617.2) has been available, the variant Alpha has lost some of its terror – even though both belong to the virus variants of concern (VOC). This is because B.1.617.2 is even more contagious and more easily transmitted…

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Severe changes caused by mutations so that antibodies no longer recognize them: So-called immune escape variants are a bugbear in the Corona pandemic. Now there is new data on Delta. The delta variant of the coronavirus, which is now also prevalent in Austria, appears to partially escape antibodies of first-time vaccinated and unvaccinated convalescents in laboratory tests. A study in the scientific journal “Nature” provides further evidence of this. Antibodies can hardly fend off mutant after single doseIn the experiments, the antibodies produced by Biontech/Pifzer and Astrazeneca after a single…

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As of today, Austria has changed the entry rules for countries of the Western Balkans. Thus, the “3-G” proof is sufficient for entry from all six states: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro are newly added to the green list, which since the previous week already includes all EU and EFTA countries as well as Serbia, Albania and Northern Macedonia. List of green countries now much longerThe list of green countries now also includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Jordan and Qatar. Since the previous week, all EU and EFTA states as well as…

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In just under three months, the number of corona deaths known globally has risen from three to four million. That’s according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than four million people have already died worldwide after being infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the start of the corona pandemic. This was revealed on Wednesday evening by data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore. This brought the number of globally known corona deaths from three million to four million in just under three months. The data compiled by JHU…

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The Johnson & Johnson Corona vaccine is said to be particularly effective against delta variant. That’s what a study shows. USA – Johnson & Johnson’s Corona vaccine appears to be very effective against the fast-spreading delta variant of the coronavirus. The company shared corresponding data in a statement Friday (02/07/2021). It is said to have 85 percent efficacy and to be effective for at least eight months, according to the U.S. company. This corresponds to the period in which the study was conducted. Vaccine researchers examined blood samples from participants…

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