Category: General Interest

Around the world, countless people took to the streets again on Saturday to demonstrate against Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and show solidarity with the country’s people under attack. In Bern, up to 20,000 demonstrators were counted demanding a more rigid stance by Switzerland against Russia, and in the Finnish capital Helsinki, more than 10,000 people took to the streets. There were also demos in Vienna, Graz, and Linz. Several hundred people demonstrated in New York’s Times Square on Saturday afternoon (local time) against Russia’s war of aggression in…

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Countless measures to contain the pandemic have been with us for almost two years, and they have changed regularly. While the rules are relaxed in many areas, 2-G Plus continues to apply when visiting hospitals and retirement homes. When visiting Vienna’s hospitals or nursing and retirement homes, you must be vaccinated or recovered, PCR tested, and put on an FFP2 mask. In hospitals, one can enter in exceptional cases with a valid antigen rapid test, such as minors, those in need of support, pregnant women, or hardship cases. Few visits…

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As of Monday, if there is one case of infection, teaching continues in the school, and from the second case onwards, education continues in the distance classes will be dropped. Monday brings not only changed guidelines for class closures in the event of multiple cases of infection but also the return of compulsory attendance. In the regulation published on Friday, the mask obligation at schools is further relaxed: Mouth-nose protection or FFP2 mask (in the upper school) must only be worn outside the own class or group rooms. Until two…

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According to the government, the 3G rule at the workplace, which has been in effect nationwide since the beginning of November, is expected to expire on March 5. Whether many companies will still demand 3G proof from their employees after that is currently still open. The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) and Federation of Austrian Industries (IV) welcome the relaxation steps. For the Chamber of Commerce, it is “currently impossible to estimate precisely in detail” how many companies will still have a company 3G rule (vaccinated, tested, or recovered) after…

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The new protein vaccine preparation from U.S. manufacturer Novavax (Nuvaxovid) will be delivered to Austria today, Thursday. “The Ministry of Health can confirm that the first shipment of Novavax vaccine is scheduled to arrive in Austria on Thursday. Delivery to the provinces will then take place next week,” it said, according to an APA inquiry. Austria has ordered 750,000 doses of Novavax for the first quarter of 2022. The aim is to target, in particular, those people who have so far refused vaccination. The drug from Novavax is the fifth…

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The Corona traffic light could become multicolored again in the foreseeable future. However, the entire country remains red. This means that there is a very high risk from Burgenland to Vorarlberg. However, the trend in the number of cases is downward except in Lower Austria during the past two weeks, according to the working document of the responsible commission, according to APA. The so-called risk number, which determines the color scheme, continues to provide the maximum risk range starting at 100 but falling below that has recently become more attainable…

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Many standard rapid corona tests often fail to see omicron infection. Researchers led by Munich-based virologist Oliver Keppler of Ludwig-Maximilians University have examined nine rapid antigen tests for detecting infection with the omicron or delta variant – and draw a sobering conclusion: eight of the tests tested by Germany’s Paul Ehrlich Institute for earlier viral variants detected omicron infection worse than delta infection. According to a study published in the journal Medical Microbiology and Immunology, that’s. “You should never take a negative result as a free pass,” Keppler warned. Especially…

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According to a Danish study, infection with both omicron subvariants of coronavirus is possible but rare. The more infectious BA.2 sub-variant has rapidly replaced the “original” BA.1 variant, which is still the most common worldwide in Denmark. This “exchange” is currently also taking place in Austria. It was previously unclear whether a person could become infected with both variants. The new study, led by researchers at Denmark’s infectious disease agency, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), shows that people infected with BA.1 can become infected with BA.2 a little later, but…

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According to a Danish study, it is possible to become consecutively infected with two different subvariants of the omicron variant of coronavirus in rare cases. Omicron subtype BA.2 in AustriaThe more infectious omicron subtype BA.2 has rapidly replaced the “original” BA.1 variant, which is still the most common worldwide in Denmark. This “exchange” is currently also taking place in Austria. It was unclear whether a person could be infected with both variants until now. Two Omicron infections possible with both variantsThe new study, led by researchers at Denmark’s infectious disease…

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