Category: General Interest

Police have been checking for 2G proof in public spaces since Monday.On Monday, November 15, 2021 the lockdown for people who are neither vaccinated nor recovered is in force in Austria. This is controlled by the police throughout Austria. How high the penalties are and when controls are also possible in private spaces. Just last week, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) announced that the control pressure would increase “massively” in the “next few days. In addition to 4,000 police officers on patrol duty, 800 police officers are joining the control…

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In view of the worsening pandemic situation, Austria is tightening its entry regulations. As of Monday, a 2.5 G certificate is required for entry into the country. Antigen and antibody tests are no longer valid – except for commuters. For commuters (work, school, study, family purposes, life partner) the 3-G rule applies. This is according to the entry regulation, which was amended yesterday. For commuters, the previous privileged duration of PCR tests will be reduced from seven days to 72 hours. Antigen tests will only be valid for 24 hours…

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More and more experts are calling for a lockdown for all in Austria due to the increasing number of covid-19 intensive care patients. “It’s not going to work out otherwise,” said Rainer Thell, senior physician in charge of the emergency department at Donaustadt Hospital, formerly SMZ Ost, in an interview with APA. “It can not be that in Salzburg people die, no courageous decisions are made that are obvious,” he criticized. “Now you can still relieve Salzburg and fly patients out to Vienna and Lower Austria.” Because there are still…

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Corona vaccine manufacturers are regularly the subject of misinformation. Most recently, for example, claims spread by the thousands on social media that vaccines from BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna as well as AstraZeneca would soon no longer be allowed to be vaccinated in the EU. The dates mentioned are December 22, 2021, January 6, 2022, and January 29, 2022. Is there any truth in this claim? But this is a hoax. Corona vaccines continue to be used in the EU beyond those dates. Verification of the claimsAll Corona vaccines were approved in the…

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In the current situation, nothing can be ruled out, said Michael Ludwig (SPÖ). However, he still wants to prevent a general lockdown. The number of new corona cases remains dramatic. In view of the current situation one can exclude “nothing at all”, stressed mayor Michael Ludwig on Tuesday. As reported, a further tightening is to come into force in Vienna this week. In it the 2Gplus rule (vaccinated or recovered plus PCR test, which may not be older than 48 hours) for the night catering and events over 25 persons…

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Virologist Dorothee von Laer put the Corona situation in Austria into drastic words on the ORF program “Im Zentrum.” In six months, she said, there will be 3G, “then you are either vaccinated, recovered or dead.” Lockdown for unvaccinated fixedOn Claudia Reiter’s show, SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Maria Rauch-Kallat (former Minister of Health, ÖVP), Hellmut Samonigg (Rector of MedUni Graz), Dorothee von Laer (virologist at MedUni Innsbruck) and Peter Klimek (complexity researcher) discussed the lockdown for the unvaccinated and the sense of a general vaccination requirement. Lockdown for the unvaccinated…

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Additional tightening on Corona measures announced in Vienna will come into effect at the end of this week, Mayor Michael Ludwig has announced.Vienna tightens up on 2G+This was announced by Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) on Monday at the presentation of the children’s vaccination road. Part of the package is about the 2Gplus regulation. In the federal capital, in the future, for example, night catering establishments and events for 25 or more people may only be visited if vaccinated or recovered persons also present a PCR test result. New Viennese package…

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No school events, such as field trips and hiking days, will be allowed at schools during the next two weeks. In addition, starting Tuesday, FFP2 masks will also be mandatory for elementary and junior high school students, with the exception of their own seats – if a mask is not available, mouth-to-nose protection (MNS) may be worn. If however no FFP2 mask should be available, can be carried at elementary schools and lower stages also a mouth nose protection (MNS), it was called Monday afternoon from the education ministry. This…

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Last week, more vaccinations were carried out in Austria than at any time since the beginning of July. Admittedly, most of the 462,534 vaccinations were “third shots”, i.e. booster vaccinations for existing vaccination protection (272,371). But the 128,813 first-time vaccinations are also a peak not seen since the second week of July. The previous weekly record occurred at the beginning of May, when 333,324 people in Austria were vaccinated for the first time. On Sunday alone, 36,839 people got vaccinated, 10,697 of whom got their first dose. As in the…

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