Category: General Interest

The Corona pandemic is increasingly a concern for the younger and unvaccinated population. For example, the incidence among unvaccinated under-18s is ten times higher than among those who have been vaccinated, according to recent AGES statistics.Among 18- to 59-year-olds, it is five times higher, and among the 60-plus generation, it is nearly four times higher than among fully immunized people in that age group, the latest data from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) show. Seven-day incidence in unvaccinated continues to riseIncidence continued to rise in all age…

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The fourth wave of infections in Austria started even much earlier than the second one last fall. With an average of 1,600 new infections daily, the seven-day incidence is currently at the level of mid-October 2020. The number of patients in intensive care units is also comparable. Those affected are predominantly the unvaccinated. The government is likely to focus its measures on them. This year, the number of new infections has already risen noticeably in July and August. Last year, the seven-day incidence of 130 reported by AGES – corresponding…

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After school started in eastern Austria, more than 100 positive self-tests were registered in the three provinces, according to preliminary figures. In Vienna, there were 80 positive rapid tests for now.After schools were only open for one or two hours on Monday and children were tested before school started, no school-related measures are expected for the time being, the office of city health councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) told APA. For the time being, 80 positive antigen rapid tests at Viennese schoolsOn the first day of school, more than 100 positive…

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Refueling and testing is now possible almost simultaneously in Lower Austria: With vending machines at initially nine gas stations, the start of “Niederösterreich gurgelt” took place on Monday. The offer is free for the time being. The procedure of the PCR gargle test, which can be performed at the gas station, is simple and takes just two minutes. After successful registration on the cell phone, the test is taken from the machine, gargled according to the instructions. The gargle sample is then dropped into a drop-off box. The low-threshold PCR…

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Starting in 2022, there should also be Corona vaccines for infants. At least, that’s what German pediatricians expect.German pediatricians expect Corona vaccines for infants to be available starting in 2022. “We firmly expect that there will be vaccines for all age groups from next year, even licensed up to newborns,” Munich pediatrician Florian Hoffmann, senior physician at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Children’s Hospital, told the Funke Mediengruppe newspapers. Vaccines for children under the age of twelve can be expected as early as the end of this year, he said.…

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With a three-week “safety phase” the new school year begins today in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland for about 490,000 children and young people. During this time, three Corona tests per week must be taken in order to participate in the face-to-face classes, one of which must be a PCR test. Testing can be done at the school; alternatively, certificates from other authorized testing sites can be brought in. Outside of class, students must wear a mask.For about 38,000 children in these three provinces, it is the very first day…

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In a Zeit im Bild 2 interview (ORF 1) Medical Association President Thomas Szekeres pleads once again that vaccination in Austria must be pushed further. Several million Austrians are still unvaccinated, he said. “The only way to get out of the pandemic is to vaccinate.” Mask, 1G and distanceIf it doesn’t work out with the vaccinations – “I’m an optimist and hope it works out” – it will be necessary to take further measures, he said. The physician leader advocates both mandatory masks indoors, safe distance and 1G rule at…

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There are still many people in Austria who do not want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The virologist Dorothee von Laer, who works in Innsbruck, now explained that there is probably only one alternative to a general vaccination requirement in the country. And that would be to “let the virus pass through” – meaning that almost everyone who has not yet been vaccinated or recovered would then be infected with it. The still-rising incidences are a concern for the virologist at the Medical University of Innsbruck. In the last…

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Vienna. From week to week, Austria falls further behind the EU average in the vaccination rate. For the past week, the country has stagnated at a rate of about 58 percent fully vaccinated.And has thus clearly fallen below even the government’s worst-case scenarios. Burgenland (66.4 percent) and Lower Austria (61.4) are the best of all the provinces, but have also failed to reach the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the population before school starts. However, the low vaccination rate puts the unvaccinated – including children, for example – at…

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