Category: General Interest

The “Green Passport” app can currently be updated. Although the download does not offer many new functions, the adjustments are certainly helpful. For example, you now have to select your own federal state when logging in. This is useful because the current measures do not apply nationwide. Two green fields show whether the current certificate allows entry or visiting the night restaurant. Also new is the display of the validity, i.e. until when the certificate is valid. Since this validity period has changed recently and may also be adjusted in…

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Yesterday, Monday, trade opens again. This applies to all provinces except Upper Austria, which follows on December 17 – and especially only for vaccinated or recovered people with 2-G proof and FFP2 masks. According to trade representatives, however, checks are not carried out at every entrance. The trade association expects a restrained start, although the customer frequency will be higher, since hundredthousand trade employees as well as employees in bodynear services return from the short-time work. In many places, the home office is also coming to an end. Towards the…

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The general lockdown ends at midnight on Saturday, but openings vary by country. A new ordinance regulates private gatherings. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the lockdown ends, gastronomy and trade are allowed to open again. However, not all federal states will make use of this – initially, only the high-incidence states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol as well as Burgenland will open to the full extent. In Vienna, people will have to wait a week longer to visit the pubs. The exit restrictions for the unvaccinated remain in place.…

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Vienna – Week after week, opponents of the government’s Corona measures, including mandatory vaccination, staged demonstrators in key cities and provicnes in Austria. Distances are not kept, mouth-nose protection is not worn. Now a counterpoint is set in Vienna. On December 19, there will be a “sea of lights” at 5 pm. Initiated it the Innsbrucker Roman Scamoni and the Viennese Daniel Landau. “Envisaged is a two-sided trellis around the entire Ringstrasse of people, with FFP2 mask of course,” says Landau in an interview with the Tiroler Tageszeitung. Those who…

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On Thursday, the federal government presented draft legislation on the Corona vaccination requirement, which is scheduled to take effect on Feb. 1, 2022. Exemptions from the vaccination requirement have now been defined in more detail by the Ministry of Health. Pregnant women: Due to the increased danger and the increased risk for severe courses of COVID-19 as well as a higher rate of premature births, vaccination against COVID-19 is explicitly recommended in pregnancy from the 2nd trimester onwards, depending on the vaccination status. However, since pregnancy is a medically very…

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On December 12, the Christmas market at Schönbrunn Palace opens its doors again. Around 60 exhibitors are looking forward to the opening after the Corona Lockdown. Christmas market at the Riesenradplatz opens againWith end of the country wide Lockdown for inoculated and recovered also the culture and Christmas market castle Schönbrunn opens on Sunday, 12 December at 10 o’clock again its gates. Visitors can stroll and shop in a relaxed manner while observing the 2-G rule and wearing FFP2 masks. The decorated huts invite until 26 December with a variety…

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The lockdown for unvaccinated goes from Sunday for ten days in the extension, each new extension by ten days is extended in each case by the federal government. The non-essential trade partly opens already on Sunday, vaccinated or recovered customers must wear FFP2 mask. Trade employees are subject to 3G verification and the mask requirement, unless there are, for example, structural protective measures. Access to body-related service providers, who are also allowed to reopen, is restricted to those with a valid 2G certificate; in addition, the FFP2 mask requirement also…

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Investigations into the new CoV variant Omicron and the effectiveness of existing vaccines are in full swing. Much of it has been studied in the laboratory. Friday night, the results of a British analysis based on 581 people with confirmed Omicron variant became known: According to the results, only a third booster vaccination provides protection against disease with omicron. According to the U.K. health authority, infected individuals with two doses of the vaccines from AstraZeneca, as well as Pfizer and Biontech, showed significantly less protection against symptomatic infections than against…

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The new rail timetable comes into effect across Europe on Sunday, and it has two more Nightjet lines in store. Travelers will then be able to go from Vienna to Paris three times a week. There will even be a daily service from Zurich to Amsterdam. Furthermore, international direct connections will be expanded, ÖBB announced in a press release on Thursday. This concerns for example the routes Graz-Budapest and Vienna-Bregenz-Frankfurt am Main. Night train from Vienna to Paris three times a weekThe night train from Vienna to Paris departs the…

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