Category: General Interest

The announcement by the federal government that next Monday the lockdown for the unvaccinated will end does not go far enough for the opposition, but also for the social partners. Complexity researcher Peter Klimek, however, believes that retaining these measures makes perfect sense. The peak of the omicron wave has not yet been reached – and thus it is not yet “time to sound the all-clear,” Klimek said on “ZiB2.” The “peak” is not expected until mid-February at the latest; only then will there be more room for maneuver. However,…

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The gargle tests have an expiration date. However, they can be used for longer, as Lead Horizon now explained. The supply of PCR tests in Vienna is going well: each person is allowed to get up to eight gargle tests per week free of charge at any BIPA store. However, this led to many people hoarding the gargle tests at home. However, the tests have an expiration date. So recently the question arose again and again whether expired gargle tests can still be used and whether the result is influenced.…

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In the future, a valid EU Corona certificate will be more important for travel in the EU than the level of infection in the country of departure. The EU states agreed on Tuesday that from February 1 it should no longer be decisive where a trip starts – but whether a valid vaccination, test or convalescent certificate is available. This was announced by the EU countries on Tuesday. In doing so, they are largely following a proposal presented by the EU Commission two months ago. According to the agreement, in…

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Biontech and Pfizer have begun their first clinical trial to evaluate a Corona vaccine specifically tailored to the Omicron variant. The study will evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of the vaccine candidate, the two companies announced today. The study is expected to enroll up to 1,420 subjects, who will be divided into three groups. The first group includes just over 600 people who have already received two doses of the previous vaccine between 90 and 180 days before the start of the study and will now receive one or…

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A 30-year-old Syrian man in Linz was apparently able to fend off a fraud attempt just in time by becoming suspicious and hanging up on the phone. A caller had introduced herself to him as an investigator from the Federal Police and requested his data. According to police, there is currently an increase in such calls from fake investigators. The 30-year-old Syrian man from Linz received a call from a number he did not recognize on Monday. A woman with an Indian accent told him in English she was from…

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In Austria, it will remain mostly dry on Tuesday at 8 degrees – but in just two days, a new cold front will bring back the snow. From the west, the high pressure influence increases and subsequently provides generally calm weather conditions. In the lowlands, however, an inversion weather situation will set in, which will cause partly tenacious fog and high fog fields. Only on Thursday, a cold front from the north will hit the Alps, resulting in snow, especially in the congested areas. On Tuesday, away from the Alps,…

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Virologist Dorothee Von Laer of the Medical University of Innsbruck does not believe that people will have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus every few months in the future. Rather, it is likely to be like the flu vaccination: She told the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” that she expects “regular booster vaccinations adapted to the current variant every fall, once more than 95 percent of people are immune – through infection or vaccination.” “That state will be reached when virtually all people have recovered or have been vaccinated and thus can have…

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More than 176,000 people – 176,079 to be exact – have been infected with the coronavirus in this country in the past seven days, 49,000 of them in the federal capital alone. However, with 1.92 million inhabitants, Vienna is the state with the highest population. In terms of seven-day incidence (number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants), Tyrol is ahead with 2,796.5 and Salzburg with 2,638.1. Vienna holds at 2,551.3, and Austria as a whole at 1,971.3. For Austria, as well as Salzburg and Vienna, these are record incidences in…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) believes an end to the pandemic in Europe is possible after the current Omicron wave. “It is plausible that the region is moving towards a final phase of the pandemic,” WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge told the AFP news agency today. At the same time, however, he urged caution because of possible further mutations of the coronavirus. According to WHO estimates, 60 percent of all people in Greater Europe could be infected with the Omicron variant by March. The variant is highly contagious, but appears…

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