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“Our planet is in a state of emergency!” This warning was conveyed today by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. In the run-up to the Biodiversity Summit, Van der Bellen emphasized in a video message on the occasion of a “Leaders Event for Nature and People”: “We are observing the effects of the overuse of natural resources, unsustainable habits and the global climate crisis. “And every day we are feeling the devastating effects of these factors on our ecosystems,” continued the…

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Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, more than 30 million infections with the corona virus have been recorded worldwide. But how widespread is the new corona virus SARS-CoV-2 actually? Time and again, even experts say that the official corona figures do not provide a reliable picture of the current reality and that the number of unreported cases is much higher. The true extent of the pandemic is much worse, a report in the “Economist” now also suggests, which is based on data from more than 270 antibody studies worldwide.…

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More than 600 people are currently tested positive for the corona virus every day. Politicians are trying to prevent the spread with numerous rules. An overview. The three golden rules apply to everyone and everywhere:Distance, hygiene, mask Family, friends: The majority of new infections now occur at home. All celebrations, private events indoors (not in your own four walls) are limited to 10 persons. Outside, a limit of 100 persons applies. School: The same applies to students and teachers: contacts should be reduced to a minimum. Therefore, a mask is…

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Guidelines have been issued for Catholic celebrations such as baptisms or weddings. Due to the increasing number of infections, the Catholic Church has established new rules for the celebration of baptisms, first communions, confirmations, marriages and funerals. Here are all the details. In order to ensure that the minimum distances are observed during the celebration and when entering and leaving the church, there are, for example, appropriate markings on the paths and seats, but also one-way rules when entering and leaving the church. The guidelines are intended to support parishes…

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In the last 24 hours, 9,865 corona tests were performed nationwide – in 662 new infections, every 15th suspected case tested positive for corona virus. Vienna. Today, 662 new infections are compared to 435 newly recovered patients, the highest numbers are again reported from Vienna (279) and Lower Austria (109). Individual assessment parameters are improving slightly due to the successful stabilization this week. For the first time, the reproduction rate has returned to 1.0 – the 7-day incidence/100,000 p.e. has fallen to 41.9 – at the same time, however, the…

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Due to an increased number of viruses in the throat, the mutated corona virus transmits more easily and thus endangers particularly high-risk groups. The corona virus has apparently mutated and thus become more dangerous. This is what scientists from the “Houston Methodist Hospital” in Texas claim to have found out. They compared samples from different points in time and found more infected cells in the sample of the “second wave”. Almost all DNA strands of the later samples are said to have a mutation – the so-called D614G. This mutation…

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App to motivate manufacturers to develop packaging alternativesSupermarket shelves are filled with products in plastic packaging. “The consumer wants it that way,” is something you often hear from manufacturers. The non-profit organization “Coast against Plastic” shows that this is not the case with its cellphone app “ReplacePlastic”.Plastic waste is a worldwide problem. Especially when it ends up in nature. Picking it up is no longer enough; the first steps towards change must be taken during production. This includes pointing out to the manufacturer that consumers want alternatives to plastic packaging.…

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Vienna. The Corona Commission has – as reported – set the traffic light for ten more districts to orange. Among them five in Lower Austria, but also Austria’s top ski regions in the west: With Landeck and Schwaz two more are orange in Tyrol. This means: ski areas such as Ischgl/Samnaun, Kaunertal, St. Anton am Arlberg (district of Landeck) have again been downgraded to “high risk”. Also the region Schwaz with the Zillertalarena, Gerlos, the Hintertuxer Gletscher, Mayrhofen. Even the ski area around the top World Cup and celebrity city…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus could continue to rise dramatically without joint international action. Two million coronavirus deaths or even more are “very likely” if the global community does not take decisive action to counteract the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said the WHO Director for Medical Emergencies, Michael Ryan, at an online press conference today. Currently, the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide is approaching one million. “One million is a terrible number, and we need to deal with that…

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