Can covid infection replace 3rd vaccination?

Berlin virologist Christian Drosten recently made people sit up and take notice with a statement: “Actually, the goal is not to always have to vaccinate for all time,” Drosten said, looking to the future. “Learning to live with the virus after population protection has been achieved via vaccination,” is his motto. Everyone who is healthy and has no pre-existing conditions should get their individual “booster immunization” through recurrent contact with the virus. “We need to get to a state where the virus can spread insidiously through the population but will…

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Pope Francis arrives in Hungary for visit

Pope Francis has arrived in the Hungarian capital Budapest on his 34th international trip. The plane carrying the Vatican delegation and 78 journalists landed in the Hungarian capital around 7:45 a.m. Sunday morning. The occasion for Francis’ visit is the closing Mass for the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress, which is meeting in Budapest. Representatives of the Catholic Church have gathered from all parts of the world. Actually, the congress was already planned last year, but the organizers had postponed it because of the Corona pandemic. Thousands of people are expected…

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More than 223 million people infected with coronavirus worldwide

More than 223.66 million people worldwide have been confirmed to be infected with coronavirus. That’s according to a Reuters count based on official data. More than 4.78 million people have died with or from the virus since it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The United States has the most cases of infection and death. India and Brazil rank second and third, respectively. After the U.S., Brazil has the most deaths with 585,174. There, 20,958,899 cases of infection were detected. In India, 442,009 people died in connection…

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COVID 19 green card now valid for one year

Austria: The Ministry of Health is changing the rules on the green passport. In the future, the vaccination in the Corona card will be valid for one year. This has been determined as of today. The Ministry of Health published on Friday in the Federal Law Gazette that a full vaccination is valid for twelve months. Until now, the Corona vaccination in the green passport had an “expiration date” of nine months. For several countries, entry requirements will be tightened because they fall from the list of countries with a…

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Czech Republic put Austria on the red Corona list

Two neighboring countries, Germany and Switzerland, now the Czech Republic and Croatia follow put Austria on the red entry list. As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague announced on Friday, the new regulation will already apply from next Monday (13.09.2021). Unvaccinated persons must show a negative PCR test when entering the Czech Republic and go into quarantine. This can then only be ended on the fifth day at the earliest with a second negative PCR test result. Those who have been fully vaccinated for at least 14 days, on…

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New vaccination campaign with special focus on younger people

The campaign of “Österreich impft” (Austria vaccinates) will aim at “the biggest worries and fears of the younger and young people”. 38.5 percent of new Corona infections in Austria affected under-25s in the previous week, AGES data show. At the same time, vaccination rates are worse the younger the age groups. With a new campaign, starting (today) Friday, “a special focus will be placed on younger people,” reported by APA. For this purpose, advertisements and spots will be placed and a focus will be placed on social media. “Increasing vaccination…

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3rd CoV vaccination now bookable for all

Since Thursday, all Lower Austrians can book an appointment for the CoV booster vaccination. Previously, only people in nursing homes received the third prick. However, the booster is not yet for everyone. Last week, the booster vaccinations began to be administered in Lower Austria. So far, about 3,000 residents of seven nursing homes received the third prick. On Thursday, registration on the platform www.impfung.at was unlocked for everyone – with different recommendations from the National Vaccination Panel depending on age, pre-existing conditions and vaccines. People over age 65, at-risk patients…

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AstraZeneca vaccine: list of “very rare” side effects supplemented

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has added Guillain-Barre syndrome to the list of “very rare” adverse reactions to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. The likelihood that there is a causal relationship between vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine and the occurrence of the nerve disease is “at least reasonable,” according to a statement issued by the EMA yesterday. The likelihood of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome after AstraZeneca vaccination is very low, the EMA stressed. Fewer than one in 10,000 people are affected, it said. By the end of July, 833 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome…

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Austria: Increasing number of younger covid patients in intensive care units

Nearly two-thirds of intensive care covid patients are currently under 60 years as – a few are even younger than 30. Not only in Vienna, where almost two-thirds of the Covid patients requiring intensive care are not yet 60 years old and four are even younger than 30 (cut-off date: September 7), the average age is falling among Corona patients admitted as inpatients and requiring an intensive care bed. A look at data in five other states shows this. Of the four Covid patients – three men and one woman…

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