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While the past few days and weeks have been dominated by negative headlines regarding the delta variant, Monday was the first day of positive news from research circles regarding the fight against the coronavirus. According to a new study, mRNA vaccines, such as those from Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech, could provide an immune response from the body for years, preventing corona infections or severe disease progression. Vaccinated individuals who have undergone disease could have lifelong protection in the first place. The findings were published in Nature. Memory cells in lymph nodesThe…

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New data modeling shows the first infections in humans could have occurred as early as October 2019. According to new data modeling, the first human cases of Sars-CoV-2 are likely to have occurred in China between about early October and mid-November 2019. This is confirmed by an analysis presented in the journal PLOS Pathogens. According to the calculation, a date around November 17 is likely, the researchers report. Accordingly, the virus is likely to have spread much faster in the world than known after the first detections. The first officially…

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As of July 1, the day the European Green Passport comes into force, a new entry regulation will also apply to Austria. Persons entering from countries with a low epidemiological risk must provide credible evidence that they have stayed there exclusively within the last ten days. If this evidence is not available, a Covid test must be performed within 24 hours, according to the regulation, which was published late Friday night. Entry from virus variant areas such as the United Kingdom, Brazil, India or South Africa is generally prohibited. However,…

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The “Green Passport”, which was launched in full at the beginning of this week, is enjoying high access rates. So far, a total of around 900,000 certificates have been called up via the health portal gesundheit.gv.at, of which 330,000 and 410,000 calls respectively were made in the last two days, demonstrating the high level of interest in the portal, which can be accessed online. A total of 11.05 million test vaccination or recovery certificates with EU-compliant QR codes have been generated to date. Test results still available via link or…

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According to an analysis by Credit Suisse, the number of dollar millionaires worldwide has continued to grow in the year of the Corona crisis. According to the Swiss bank, the club of the rich grew most in the United States on Tuesday. According to the Global Wealth Report, which Credit Suisse has published annually since 2010, there were almost 56.1 million million dollar millionaires worldwide at the end of last year. That’s a good 5.2 million more than in 2019. By far the most of them live in the U.S.…

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The Corona pandemic, among many other things, has profoundly changed people’s attitudes toward retail. Online has become “normal” for many, stores have to come up with something to bring people back. Trust in well-known brands has also dropped significantly, according to a survey of 1,000 Austrians by Dieter Scharitzer, WU professor at the Institute of Marketing Management. However, there is no uniform development, Scharitzer said in an interview with APA. One has to consider that about one third of the respondents have less money at their disposal than before the…

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Cell phone signature can be activated at A1, Finanz online and the post office, and green passport certificates can also be added to smartphone wallets. On Sunday, the federal government presented its promised EU-compliant solution for verifying the three-G rule – the so-called Green Passport. However, the systems are still not running like smoothly. A green passport requires a so-called cell phone signature. How to activate this and where to find the PDF files of the green passport, we explain here step by step. Basically, the green passport is not…

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Tested, recovered, vaccinated – these are the magic three Gs with which one can travel through Europe in the future. The Green Passport provides proof of this. How it works and what it brings – the big overview. What is the green pass?The Green Passport is a certificate of Covid 19 status that can be used to enter certain places, such as restaurants, movie theaters, events or to travel. The certificates can either be printed out or saved – for example, on a cell phone. They are a supplement to…

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A U.S. study shows how the mental state of those vaccinated affects the effectiveness of the vaccination. Almost 50% of Austrians have been vaccinated once so far, and nearly 32 percent have been fully vaccinated against Corona. But not everyone reacts the same way to the vaccination. A study from the U.S. has shown that several factors can influence the effectiveness of a vaccination. Although the approved Corona vaccines are extremely effective, they do not work equally effectively for everyone. Age and chronic disease can play a role, but these…

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