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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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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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