Category: General Interest

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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3G for theaters, cinemas and concerts; FFP2 mask requirement for unvaccinated in museums and galleries. City of culture Vienna continues with much stricter rules. The latest Corona regulation of the federal government does not necessarily make it easier for those interested in culture to keep track of the regulations that will apply from tomorrow, Wednesday. That’s because, in addition to the regulations that are binding nationwide, the federal states are free to set additional tightenings – which is why Vienna continues to have significantly stricter rules. The following is an…

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The FFP2 mask obligation will be extended from Wednesday, September 15, in Austria. Added to the regulation: people who are neither vaccinated nor recovered must also wear an FFP2 mask in cultural institutions such as museums, libraries and archives. However, the wearing of a mask does not apply in all areas. In concerts and theaters, a negative Corona test is still sufficient, as the “3G rule” applies here. However, the FFP2 mask is making a comeback for everyone as of September 15! Everywhere, where up to now a mouth-nose-protection was…

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Austria: The coronavirus vaccination has prevented almost 2,200 deaths by the end of July. This is the assumption of a model calculation carried out by the Ministry of Health, which has now been published following a parliamentary question from NEOS. The ministry puts the number of people who have been spared a hospital stay by the vaccination at almost 5,800. So far, 10,837 people have died in Austria after a coronavirus infection – 2,662 of them in the months from February to July, according to AGES. For the model calculation,…

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On Monday, 753 Covid 19 patients had to be treated in hospitals. Of them, 191 people long in intensive care units. From Wednesday, the new staged plan for the new Corona protection measures will apply, these will then take effect depending on the utilization of the intensive care units. The measures will come into force seven days after the limit values are exceeded. Federal states can tighten beyond that on their own authority. The number of Corona patients has been rising again for days. On Monday, there were 753 patients…

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On the third day of his Slovakia trip, Pope Francis will visit a Roma housing estate in the second largest city of Kosice (Kashov) on Tuesday afternoon. Between 5,000 and 6,000 people of the Roma ethnic group live in the prefabricated housing estate Lunik IX, which is known for its poor housing and living conditions. The appointment is typical of Francis’ agenda – a meeting with people who live on the margins of society. But the fact that the head of the Catholic Church is visiting the Roma quarter, of…

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