Category: General Interest

Despite CoV pandemic, parties are allowed at the turn of the year. As with Christmas, the lockdown for unvaccinated people takes a break – meaning there are virtually no curfew restrictions. Parties at home are also allowed. However, the curfew at 22.00 for catering and culture remains in place. Differences for vaccinated or recovered and unvaccinated persons exist for parties at home: within their own four walls, unvaccinated persons may celebrate the turn of the year with a maximum of ten people. For vaccinated or recovered persons, the party at…

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According to a new study, the coronavirus can spread within days from the respiratory tract to the heart, brain and almost all organ systems of the body, where it can persist for months. In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the spread and persistence of coronavirus in the body and brain, scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found “that although Sars-CoV-2 is most prevalent in the respiratory tract and lungs, the virus can spread early during infection and infect cells throughout the body, including the brain,” the…

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From Dec. 20 to 26, 1,218 of the new “variant of concern” were detected, according to recent data from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). The still dominant mutation B.1.617.2 aka Delta continues to be in retreat. At week 51, Delta was registered less than three times as often as Omicron – at week 50, the factor was still 16. In week 50, the ratio of delta to omicron was 5,475 to 332, but one week later it was 3,307 to 1,218, with the overall number of cases…

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According to one report, Apple will do away with a SIM card slot in the iPhone 15. Accordingly, if the current product cycle is maintained, there would no longer be a current iPhone with a regular SIM card from 2023. Instead, the eSIM will be used to register with the mobile carrier. The eSIM is a virtual SIM card and a fixed component of the chip. Starting with the iPhone XS series, eSIM has been on board iPhones since 2018. Doing away with SIM card brings advantages for Apple For…

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The last week of 2021 will also remain almost without snow and will be very mild, meteorologists at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) forecast on Sunday. Vienna weather in detailAlthough it remains quite cloudy and foggy, but the temperatures rise, especially until the end of the week up to 15 degrees. On Monday still snow drizzle in the eastParticularly in the eastern half of the country, deep clouds will persist over the lowlands on Monday, but this will only lead to unproductive snow drizzle or freezing drizzle…

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The Omicron wave is rolling on and has now reached a first, sad, milestone. The new Corona variant is already the dominant one in Vienna, as the office of Vienna’s city health councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) toldthe daily newspaper “standard”. So over the Christmas holidays, Omicron prevailed over Delta. As recently as Tuesday, there were 266 active cases in the federal capital. On Sunday, there were already 552 current Omicron infected. An increase of more than 100 percent. According to Hacker’s office, this trend was observed in the area of…

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Every year the garbage collection comes again. For MA48, Christmas is not a holiday, but a working day. Around 900 employees are on duty and take care of the full garbage garbage cans. There is a lot to do. The gifts have been distributed, and the guests have been sent home. But gray boxes, red wrapping paper and golden bows remain. They decorate the waste garbage cans of the Viennese. “At Christmas time, there is about ten percent more volume in the garbage cans,” said Nicole Puzsar from MA 48…

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British researchers have tracked down a new symptom that has emerged in connection with infections with the Omicron variant. This sign might be particularly noticeable over the Christmas holidays: If one has eaten less than usual of the Christmas dinner, she may have already contracted the pathogen. Not much is known yet about the new Omicron variant, but scientists now seem to have uncovered another mystery. That’s because the mutation makes itself known through a symptom that had not been noticed in previous variants. Many patients with an Omicron infection…

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They are probably the most popular dishes at Christmas or on New Year’s Eve: raclette or fondue. And in Austria, too, the dishes, which actually originate from Switzerland, are often served. But now the German Robert Koch Institute warns: The risk of infection during the fun table cooking is not to be underestimated … According to a recent survey, raclette is on the Christmas table for just under one-fifth of Austrians. But now Germany’s health watchdogs are warning against the communal festive feast. But anyone who now thinks of the…

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