Category: General Interest

Being caught by a nettle is not exactly pleasant. This is probably one of the main reasons why most people tend to avoid this plant or regard it as a weed. Yet the stinging nettle not only contains an extremely large number of nutrients, it seems to be a veritable miracle herb. Hardly any wild plant is as robust as the nettle. And there is hardly a meadow, path or forest edge where it cannot be found. Only very few people take the opportunity to pick it and use it…

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The Corona rest period is over. What the daily infection figures already indicate, can also be read from the Corona traffic light as of today. Even the last three orange spots Styria, Burgenland and Carinthia are colored red, according to the working document of the responsible commission. The Austrian Press Agency published the report. This means there is a very high risk of infection throughout the federal territory. This range begins from risk number 100. Burgenland has 214, 1,716 in Tirol. That is almost a quadrupling of the risk figure…

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U.S. biotechnology company Moderna expects results from its clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine for children ages two to five as early as March. If the data and discussions with regulators were positive, Moderna could then seek emergency approval for the vaccine, the company announced Wednesday. “In the first half of 2022”The other makers of an mRNA vaccine, Biontech and Pfizer, had said in mid-December they expected to seek emergency approval for ages six months to five years “in the first half of 2022.” The Biontech-Pfizer product is already approved in…

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Next week on Thursday (January 19), the Wiener Eistraum will start – with more ice skating space than ever before. This year’s Ice Dream will once again consist of the large areas on Rathausplatz in front of City Hall, the “Sky Rink” – a kind of ice-skating terrace complete with a new platform – and the Dream Trail in City Hall Park. The two free children’s and practice areas are also making a comeback. For those who want to ice skate, the 2G rule and mask obligation applies to the…

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Currently, about 70.9 percent of people in Austria have valid vaccination protection against the coronavirus, meaning their vaccination certificate has not yet expired. However, the validity period of these certificates has been repeatedly shortened in recent months in the wake of new findings on the required immune protection and the emergence of new virus variants. As of February 1, the vaccination certificates are only valid for six months after the second sting; previously, they were valid for nine months. This could invalidate nearly 900,000 vaccination certificates. But even before the…

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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says the new Omicron vaccine is ready. It could be delivered starting in March, he said, but questions remain. Shortly after the new coronavirus variant became known, pharmaceutical companies BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca began preparing for possible adaptation of their vaccines. Now there appear to be early results. “The Omicron vaccine will be ready to see in March,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla announced on CNBC. He also said the U.S. company has already begun manufacturing the doses. The vaccine will also target the other variants in…

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The 2G controls in stores will start on Tuesday. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) announced an intensification of Covid controls by the police at a press conference in Vienna on Monday. The “Aktion Scharf” should be at the same time an “action fairness” to the overwhelming part of the population who adhere to the Corona protection measures. For the “strengthened control pressure” are to provide readiness units as well as policemen and policewomen in civilian clothes. For the trade there will be recommendations for action, “how controls can be implemented…

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Cypriot researchers have discovered 25 cases of a corona strain that combines elements of the delta and omicron variants – “deltakron.” While Austria is currently struggling with the Omicron variant – numbers are rising rapidly, with authorities reporting 10,291 new infections on Sunday – more bad news reaches us from Cyprus: Researchers discovered a new variant that has Omicron-like genetic features in Delta genomes. 25 delta crone cases in CyprusLeondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology,…

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Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein wants to prevent another lockdown. However, the decisive “marker” will no longer be the occupancy of intensive care units, but rather that of normal wards, he said in an APA interview. Mückstein pointed out that the probability of a hospital admission is up to 50 percent lower with Omicron than with the Delta variant: with Delta, one out of four admitted patients ends up in the intensive care unit; with Omicron, the ratio is only 1:10. And: with the Delta variant, about 20 percent of intensive…

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