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The number of reported Covid 19 deaths worldwide has risen sharply in one week, by 21 percent to 69,000 in seven days, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Wednesday in Geneva. The WHO refers to government figures for the week of July 19-25. A total of more than four million people worldwide have died so far after being infected, it said. Experts point out that not all people who die after being infected with the coronavirus from Covid-19 are reported. On the other hand, some who died had serious pre-existing…

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Starting next Tuesday (August 3), travelers returning to Austria and vacationers from the Netherlands, Spain or Cyprus will have to carry proof of their full immunity or a negative PCR test result at Austrian airports when entering the country. Travelers without such proof must register and take a PCR test at the airport “without delay,” according to the amendment to the entry regulation published Thursday night. However, people who can provide a medical certificate stating that they have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 within the past 90 days will also be…

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Children are five times more likely to show an asymptomatic course of infection. Their immune response is also more stable, according to the study from Baden-Württemberg. What is the course of COVID-19 infection in children? Are they protected after a mild course? Scientists from the University Hospitals in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Ulm and the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute NMI in Reutlingen have investigated these central questions in a COVID-19 children’s study. For this purpose, 328 households were observed, with at least one member having a previous laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2…

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A study has examined the impact of the Corona pandemic on the quality of relationships. The Corona pandemic has no effect on the quality of relationships. Rather, “mundane psychological factors” such as security are responsible for happiness in a partnership. This was the conclusion reached by a research team led by Stephanie Eder from the University of Vienna. In their study, the scientists interviewed around 300 people from Austria, Poland, Spain and the Czech Republic in spring 2020. With her country-comparative survey over seven weeks, the researcher from the Faculty…

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Scams with fake websites are designed to trick users out of money and credit card data. Earlier this week, the police warned of a second big wave with fraudulent SMS , which allegedly come from a parcel service. And that these warnings were bitterly needed, show the current figures. Because the rip-off with the fake parcel delivery SMS including fake links is getting completely out of hand. There are now thousands of people affected in Austria. Many of them are currently contacting the Chamber of Labor (AK). For this reason,…

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A British study confirms high efficacy of BioNTech/Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines against the Delta variant of coronavirus. Two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from BioNTech/Pfizer or AstraZeneca are almost as effective against the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus as against the previously dominant alpha variant, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the study, two vaccinations with BioNTech/Pfizer are 88 percent effective in preventing symptomatic disease from the delta variant, compared with 93.7 percent against the alpha variant. Dual vaccination with…

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Vaccinations against corona virus are advancing at a rapid pace in Austria. Many want to get a vaccination appointment as soon as possible, even though they have already been sick with Covid-19 once and have recovered. How long should you actually wait to get vaccinated? “After recovering, you should wait six to eight months before getting vaccinated against the coronavirus,” says Dr. Eva Höltl, an occupational physician and one of five spokespersons for the “Austria Vaccinates” initiative. A single vaccination is sufficient for those who have recovered, explains the physician.…

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Researchers have succeeded in stopping the proliferation of coronavirus in an infected cell. A possible success in the therapy of patients. Australian scientists have succeeded in stopping the replication of the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 in an infected cell using a method based on the gene scissors Crispr . This is the result of a study published on Tuesday in the scientific journal “Nature Communications”. In the long term, this could enable better treatment of Covid-19 patients, according to the team led by Sharon Lewin of Australia’s Peter Doherty Institute for Infection…

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When it comes to corona vaccines, the status quo is just the beginning: even though four vaccines to protect against COVID-19 are already available in this country, intensive research is underway for more worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 291 vaccine candidates are currently in development with vaccines from AstraZeneca, BioNTech/Pfizer, Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and Moderna. 291 Corona vaccines currently undergoing intensive testingOf these 291, 107 are already being tested in the clinical phase and thus involving test subjects, while 184 are still in the preclinical testing…

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