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More than half of all adults in the EU have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. EU Commission President Von der Leyen once again called for people to be vaccinated. More than half of all adults in the EU have now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. This was announced by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Tuesday. At the same time, the politician once again encouraged all vaccination skeptics to get immunized. To be safe from virus variants and avoid a new wave of infection, it…

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A Meet and Greet   Event was organized by the Austrian Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP) on July 12, 2021 held in Vienna’s 7th District, where the headquarters of the federation is located. Merle Soquila-Blaschke, a WFWP Liasion-Austria-Philippines expressed her gratitude to  the federation  for organizing the event and likewise acknowledged the presence of  some Philippine Diaspora Organizations. Dr. Maria Riehl, the initiator and founder of Women’s Federation for Peace in Austria elaborated the goals and activities of the Federation, mainly, to empower women with the knowledge, the tools and…

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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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