Category: General Interest

Because of the Corona pandemic, schools around the world have been closed for the past year and a half. As a result, 117 million children are still not going back to school. “The longer schools remain closed, the worse the consequences,” the UN education agency UNESCO stressed in a statement released Friday in Paris. Potentially, this would cause permanent damage in terms of children’s health and education. Because of the closed schools, children have learned less, and the number of school dropouts has increased, stressed UNESCO’s education representative, Stefania Giannini.…

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This week, there were about 1,100 positive PCR tests at schools in Austria. For Vienna alone, that meant 606 classes at 525 schools had to be closed and students quarantined.This week, 1,121 corona cases were detected during PCR testing at schools. Through the Ministry of Education’s “Everything Flushes” program, which is conducted at elementary schools in Vienna and in other provinces at all ages, there were 530 cases. In the “Alles gurgelt” program, through which all students from the fifth grade are tested in Vienna, 591 tests have struck, as…

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Corona numbers continue to be on the rise. CoV cases are currently piling up, especially among children and adolescents. As autumn approaches, the Corona situation in Austria is getting worse. For several weeks, a constant increase in the number of new infections recorded daily has been observed. Most recently, the government presented a step-by-step plan to counteract the current trend in numbers. The new tightening plan is primarily linked to one factor, namely the nationwide utilization of intensive care units with Corona patients. Depending on the “percentage hurdle,” i.e., whether…

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The protective effect of the Moderna vaccine wears off over time. The vaccine manufacturer advocates for a booster. According to the vaccine manufacturer Moderna, the vaccine protection would weaken or diminish over time. This conclusion was reached after evaluating new data from extensive studies, the U.S. company said. The studies also supported the case for booster vaccination. On Sept. 1, Moderna had submitted initial data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for consideration of a booster vaccine, according to an APA report. According to the vaccine manufacturer, a booster…

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Autumn is already knocking, temperatures are slowly getting a little cooler. According to ZAMG, everything from rain to sunshine will be present at the weekend. After disturbance departure, the Eastern Alps area gets into a northwesterly flow on Friday. This means that during the day remaining rain showers are to be expected in the south and in the north. Otherwise, it will be precipitation-free and sunny in many areas. Lively northwest wind at the eastern edge of the Alps. Early temperatures should range from eleven to 18 degrees, daytime highs…

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Even if the increase in Corona infections is moderate, it is going up throughout the country. This is also reflected on the Corona traffic light. For the first time in many weeks, Salzburg, a federal state, has again reached the “red zone”. This means that there is a very high risk of contracting Corona in the state. The remaining states, like the state as a whole, are orange, with the exception of Burgenland, where medium risk and therefore yellow applies, meaning there is high risk. Burgenland is also the only…

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This is shown in the vaccination breakthrough report updated Wednesday by the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). According to data collected since February, the risk of symptomatic infection is reduced by at least 88 percent despite full immunization compared to those not fully vaccinated and unvaccinated. This is then mild and rarely fatal in almost all cases. Since the beginning of February, out of a total of 175,815 laboratory-confirmed corona cases with symptoms among persons 12 years of age and older in Austria, 8,845 cases had been fully…

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Corona clusters following travel abroad decreased by nearly 50 percent in the last calendar week. In exchange, contagions in the own household increased by ten percent.With the end of the vacations, travel-associated Corona cases almost halved in calendar week 35 (August 30 to September 5) compared to the previous week, from 31 percent to 15.7 percent. In contrast, new infections in households increased from 46.9 to 56.7 percent – an increase of almost ten percent compared to the previous week, shows the Epidemiological Covid-19 Clarification of the Agency for Health…

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Quarantine rules will be relaxed in schools. Pupils who are considered to be close contacts of an infected person (K1) will be able to clear themselves from quarantine after only five days, instead of the previous ten days, by means of PCR tests. On Tuesday, however, it was still open for a long time who should be classified as a K1 person at all. Tuesday evening, the Ministry of Health announced that from the 5th grade on, only the direct seat neighbors and other close contacts of the confirmed Covid…

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