Category: General Interest

In the past week, there has been a significant increase in the number of infections with the coronavirus during leisure time in Austria. This is confirmed by the current epidemiological clarification of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). 12.6 percent of all cases in which the source of infection could be clarified were attributable to this setting. In the first three weeks of December, the leisure sector had contributed six to eight percent to the incidence of infection. Significant increases in infections also occurred in the hotel and…

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The year 2022 will also bring changes in mobility: For example, the digital driver’s license will be introduced. As of March 1, 2022, the parking sticker and short-stay parking zone in Vienna will be extended to the entire city. The period of validity and duration will be standardized – also in the existing short-stay parking zones – to two hours from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 22:00. Area-wide parking sticker in Vienna from March 1, 2022From March 1, parking in Vienna will only be permitted with a parking permit…

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Are we seeing the emergence of more dangerous viral variants? The World Health Organization has warned of this in light of the Omicron variant of the Corona virus. The more Omicron spreads and multiplies, “the more likely it is to give rise to a new variant,” WHO emergency response expert Catherine Smallwood said Tuesday in an interview with the AFP news agency. WHO emergency expert speaks of ‘dangerous phase’“We are in a very dangerous phase,” Smallwood stressed. “We are seeing very sharp increases in infection rates in Western Europe, the…

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The expert panel “Gecko” prepared facts and figures before the federal-provincial summit today, Thursday. The government will eventually announce the concrete measures based on the presentation of the Covid Crisis Coordination. A “hard lockdown” is apparently not an issue. Calls for quarantine relaxationsAt 11 a.m. Thursday, the federal government will consult with the states and experts on the current Corona situation. The “all-state Covid Crisis Coordination” (Gecko) did not make any specific recommendations for concrete measures at its meeting on Tuesday afternoon, according to information obtained by APA. Accordingly, the…

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Omicron is already causing new infection numbers to skyrocket. “We have to slow down Omicron and keep the country running,” said Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein yesterday on Twitter. “Wear mask even outdoors if 2m distance doesn’t work out. A well-fitting FFP2 is still essential protection.” If possible, work from a home office, he said. And, “Protect yourself with vaccination.” The second dose lowers the risk for a severe course, he said, and the third dose reduces it even more significantly and effectively. Omicron is more contagious than its predecessor Delta,…

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The Corona situation in Australia is worsening dramatically: authorities in the country of 25 million people today reported more than 64,700 new infections, almost 17,000 more than yesterday and a new high. By comparison, at the end of November, the figures were still at 1,000 to 1,500 new infections daily. Particularly affected are the most populous states of New South Wales with the major city of Sydney and Victoria with the metropolis of Melbourne. Almost 1,500 people are now hospitalized in the east coast region in connection with Covid-19 –…

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About two-thirds of covid patients currently admitted to normal wards are not fully immunized, and four out of five critically ill patients in intensive care units do not have adequate protection. These data show that booster vaccinations work well against coronavirus – yet vaccination coverage in Austria is declining. In the last seven days, 205,552 stings were given against Corona – nearly 20 percent fewer than the week before. According to the Ministry of Health, 46,651 Corona vaccinations were recorded in Austria on Tuesday, of which 5127 were first stings…

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Nearly 1,000 Dutch tourists who previously spent their winter vacations in Austria have tested positive for the coronavirus back home. To be exact, according to a report by the NL Times news portal, 964 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 last week between Dec. 27 and Jan. 3 who had previously visited Austria over a 14-day period. According to the report, infections attributed to Austria account for 15.8 percent of all CoV cases attributed to foreign countries, despite the fact that the Netherlands was declared a virus variant area by Austria…

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According to the experts of the Covid forecasting consortium, the fifth wave has begun. Due to the dominance of the Omicron virus variant, which has now also reached Austria, the panel assumes in its current calculation that there will be a strong acceleration in the number of infections, which will lead to an increase in the number of Covid 19 patients in normal wards in hospitals. Up to 17,000 new infections are expected in the coming week. Next Wednesday (January 12), according to the experts’ calculations, there will certainly be…

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