Category: General Interest

Every year, Apple publishes its list of the most popular apps of the year. However, popularity is not to be equated with user ratings, but with the number of downloads. Unsurprisingly, pandemic dominates the apps charts in Austria. In first place among the free apps for the iPhone was the “Grüner Pass” app, while on the iPad Zoom dusted off first place. The unattractive cell phone signature, which is required for various online official procedures, but also for logging in to the electronic vaccination certificate, also managed a top ranking…

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On Thursday, the first Corona vaccinations started at four pilot elementary schools in Vienna.Schoolchildren in Vienna received Corona vaccinations at pilot elementary schools on Thursday, a week after Biontech/Pfizer’s vaccine was approved for children five years and older. At the Ganztagsvolksschule (GTVS) Steinlechnergasse in Vienna’s Hietzing district, 125 students received their first Corona vaccination on Thursday. They will receive the second sting on December 23, 2021. The school is one of eight other Viennese schools where the pilot project of the voluntary vaccination campaign, which is implemented by the Municipal…

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Covid-19 vaccine partially prevents SARS-CoV-2 infections, but is particularly effective in preventing severe illness during the pandemic. A new Israeli study now demonstrates the large effect on SARS-CoV-2 infections after a third partial vaccination with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Incidence decreases by 86 percent. For symptomatic Covid-19 infections, the mRNA vaccine was 95 percent effective, according to the large efficacy trial that led to approval by the FDA (U.S.) and EMA (EU) drug regulators. However, according to Tal Patalon (Maccabi Healthcare Services Tel Aviv) in the Journal of the American Medical…

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced Thursday it is launching an accelerated review process for approval of the Covid 19 vaccine from Austrian-French biotechnology company Valneva. The EU already ordered up to 60 million Corona vaccine doses from Valneva several weeks ago. When a decision on the inactivated vaccine will be made is still open, he said. Valneva’s inactivated vaccine contains killed components of the coronavirus for immunization. As such, it uses similar technology to traditional flu vaccines and is said to be able to be stored in normal refrigerators.…

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The neunerhaus health center in Vienna’s Margareten district — Margaretenstraße 166/1, 1050 Vienna – is offering vaccinations for homeless, homeless and uninsured people in December. On December 6 and 13, people there will receive the basic immunization or a booster vaccination with the vaccine from Biontech/Pfizer and, if desired, also the flu vaccination, according to a release. This campaign is supported by the City of Vienna and the Red Cross. Already in May 2021, 250 people were immunized over two days. In total, almost 750 homeless and uninsured people have…

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A survived Corona infection does not protect against infection with the new Omicron variant, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).“We think that previous infection does not protect against Omicron,” infectiologist Anne von Gottberg of South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said Thursday at a press conference hosted by the WHO Africa Regional Office. The question continues to be researched, the scientist said. However, initial observations suggest that people who have already been infected by Omicron could contract Covid-19 again. In that case, however, the symptoms are apparently…

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A decision on the end of the lockdown for vaccinated and recovered persons as of December 12 will be made by the Ministry of Health only next week.The forecasting consortium will provide an assessment of the coming days, it said. At present, infection incidence is declining, it said. How strong this development is pronounced and whether it is a sustainable trend reversal, however, will only be seen in the coming days, lets the Ministry of Health know. The development is being monitored and the next steps will be communicated next…

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At least eleven EU countries have reported the presence of the coronavirus variant Omicron so far.As the EU health agency ECDC wrote in an Omicron update, there were 59 recorded infected people by midday Wednesday. The Stockholm-based agency listed 16 cases in the Netherlands, 14 in Portugal and nine in Germany, Italy, Denmark (4 each), Sweden, Austria (3 each), Belgium, Spain (2 each) and the Czech Republic (1). In addition, there was one case on the island of Réunion, which belongs to France. It remained unclear whether the ECDC reports…

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Biontech CEO Ugur Şahin expects the existing vaccine to provide protection against severe disease even with the new Omicron virus mutation. “We think it is likely that vaccinated people will have significant protection against severe disease caused by Omicron,” Biontech CEO Ugur Şahin told Reuters news agency on Tuesday. He expects that this protection will be even more pronounced once people have received their third vaccination. Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel had earlier warned to the Financial Times that existing vaccines against omicron are less effective. “There is no reason…

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