Category: General Interest

The new Prater season brings a new promotion for members of the City of Vienna’s Vorteilsclub. On “Prater Monday,” discounts will be offered at 40 businesses in Vienna’s amusement park. New Prater highlights Good news for all those who like to make the Vienna Prater unsafe: Every Monday, excluding public vacations or vacations, there will be discounts and promotions at the more than 40 participating Prater businesses in the future with the Vorteilsclub card. With the Vorteilsclub card: These discounts await you on Mondays in the Prater Double the fun…

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Single-digit early temperatures, frequent rain showers, and only rare sunshine await us in the new week, according to the ZAMG forecast. We have the weather forecast in detail. The somewhat unsettled and only moderately temperate weather continues in the first week of May. On Monday, the sun will shine intermittently in the west and partly in the north until the morning. Then, spring clouds will form, followed by some rain showers. In the rest of Austria, many clouds and a few rain showers will persist at first. There will be…

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More than two years after the pandemic, Italy takes further steps to ease Corona’s restrictions. As of Sunday (May 1), the so-called green passport is no longer required in Italy. This means that the 2G and 3G obligations will no longer apply. Employees will no longer have to show a Green Pass to access the workplace. The 3G obligation will continue to use for access to hospitals and nursing homes. Green passport: new presentation for booster vaccinationsA vaccination requirement remains for health care workers through the end of 2022. On…

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Most households have a microwave, but there are still skeptical people because they fear that the quality of food and health will suffer. Is this the case? Like most technologies, microwave ovens were developed to simplify our lives by reducing the amount of work we have to do. However, several people believe that using a microwave removes vitamins and nutrients from food. But isn’t the use of microwaves dangerous? How do they work? Microwaves, whose cable does not belong in multiple sockets, use the radiation of the water molecules in…

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According to a study, about one in 10 people hospitalized for a coronavirus showed white spots on the retina. However, these pathological changes subsided after three months, a Swiss research team from Geneva reported in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. The researchers examined the eyes of 172 hospitalized patients who suffered respiratory distress due to Sars-CoV-2 infection. According to the study, eleven percent showed retinal damage, which manifested as white spots. These were due to occlusion of the small arteries, triggered by an embolism or inflammation. Lead author Gordana Sunaric…

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Do you have plans to spend your vacation in Italy soon? Italy is currently extending the travel rules until the end of May. Italy is extending current rules for travel to and from foreign countries until May 31. Thus, travelers to Italy must continue to present a vaccination certificate or a negative rapid test. Abolished next Sunday (May 1) is the obligation to fill out the European Passenger Locator Form. This obligation entered into force on May 24, 2021. Italy will extend the mask requirement on trains, subways, buses, and…

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According to the ZAMG forecast, the weekend will be unsettled and prone to showers in large parts of Austria. Only in the east of the country should it remain predominantly dry. After a sunny start to the weekend, increasingly unsettled and shower-prone weather will spread across Austria over the next few days. This was reported by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). The east of the country remains over the weekend for outdoor activities in advantage: There, it should stay largely dry. Still little chance of showers on…

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Since Easter, Austria has managed mainly without Corona restrictions. But for those entering the country, the rules are strict. There is also the threat of quarantine. Corona measures in Austria are as reasonable as abolished – apart from the FFP2 obligation in the vital indoor setting and healthcare. Around Easter, the last G-rules fell in the catering industry and at events. Surprisingly for many at the time, the federal capital also largely followed the rules because Vienna was always known for stricter rules until now. The Ministry of Health says…

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“An estimated 60 to 80 percent of the EU population has now been infected with Covid,” EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said Wednesday. Registered Corona cases in about 30 percent of the EU population According to the EU health agency, the reported instances affect about 30 percent of the European population. Further mutation of coronavirus possible If unreported infections are added, the number could be as high as 350 million people, or about 77 percent. Because the number of Covid-19-related illnesses and deaths has recently declined, the EU is now…

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