Category: General Interest

Lockdown policies have led to significantly more illness among children worldwide, according to a recent study. The aid organization Save the Children reported this today, citing data from the “Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker.” Cases of depression, anxiety, loneliness and even self-harm have increased. Survey results from more than 13,000 children in 46 countries were considered. Eighty-three percent of the children reported an increase in negative feelings due to the pandemic, according to the data. These feelings were far more evident among the majority of children (96 percent) after schools…

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Windows 11 is here, but very few users are already seeing an upgrade offer on their computer. On October 5, Microsoft officially launched Windows 11. However, this does not mean that all computers can now be updated. Only on a few devices do users already see an upgrade offer. Quite a few PCs will never get Windows 11, and most computers won’t get their turn until next year. But as usual, Microsoft allows impatient users to get there faster and offers several ways to do so. First of all, it…

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AstraZeneca vaccine developer, immunologist Sarah Gilbert, is calling for a more equitable distribution of available Corona vaccine doses. Writing in a peer-reviewed journal Wednesday (Oct. 6), she said greater efforts must be made to ensure vaccines reach poorer countries in particular. By early September, just over 40 percent of the world’s population had received at least one vaccine dose, but barely two percent in the poorest countries, it said. Booster vaccinations and childhood immunization, as was already happening in Western countries, would increase pressure on supply chains. As long as…

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ÖBB has launched an upgrade program to modernize its existing night train fleet and increase comfort and services for passengers. A total of 22 seating cars from the existing fleet will be upgraded to new multifunctional couchette cars for ÖBB Nightjets. As new “comfort couchette cars,” they will be individually integrated into the existing Nightjet trains so that modernized cars and barrier-free compartments will be available on as many routes as possible in the future. The first upgraded comfort couchette cars will be in service on the Vienna – Bregenz…

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AstraZeneca has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency approval of a Covid 19 drug. International pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca plans to launch a new drug to prevent Covid-19. The company has now applied to the U.S. authorities for emergency approval. The drug is intended in particular for people who respond poorly to vaccines due to a weakened immune system. In August, the company announced the results of its Phase III trials, which it said showed the drug was highly effective in reducing risk of COVID infection. More…

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So far unknown perpetrators tried to trick several people in St. Pölten and in the district of Baden into entering bank data by means of so-called phishing SMS on October 4, 2021. The victims receive an SMS with the sender “LPD AT” and are asked to pay an “outstanding fine” or an “outstanding fine”. In doing so, the victims are supposed to open an attached link and enter their bank details. The domain name appears to be “LPDGELDSTRRAFE.ME”. Police recommendationThe police or any other criminal authority will certainly not send…

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Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of booster shots of its coronavirus vaccine for people 18 and older. In-house studies have shown that booster vaccination increases the vaccine’s protective efficacy to 94 percent, Mathai Mammen, head of research and development at J&J subsidiary Janssen, said yesterday. Unlike other vaccines, one dose is officially enough for J&J’s vaccine. The U.S. clinical trial showed that a second dose injected about two months (56 days) after the first dose was 94 percent…

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Slowly, more and more children are also being vaccinated against Corona. In Upper Austria, 24 percent of 12- to 14-year-olds have already received a prick. We are approaching 60 percent. Currently, 57.6 percent in Upper Austria are fully immunized, meaning they have already received two vaccinations. In the Urfahr-Umgebung district, the figure is already over 60 percent, namely 63.1 percent. The lowest vaccination rate is in the district of Braunau with 50.8 percent. This is the result of the current announcement of the Upper Austrian crisis management team. 2,408 Upper…

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Every fifth coronavirus infection detected in the past week has affected a child between the ages of six and 14. This is shown by the current evaluation of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). According to this, of the total of 12,668 infections confirmed by the authorities between September 27 and October 3, 2,530 – exactly 20 percent – were attributable to this age group. Meanwhile, schoolchildren, apprentices and trainees, with a 7-day incidence of 331 cases per 100,000 population, have significantly outpaced 15- to 24-year-olds, who had…

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