Category: General Interest

The fourth Corona infection wave has started significantly earlier than the third wave last summer. According to AGES figures, the seven-day incidence three weeks before the start of school last year was only ten infections per 100,000 inhabitants; this year it is already 51. The number of severe courses is also significantly higher: on Wednesday, 51 patients with a Corona infection were in intensive care, a year earlier there were only half as many (25). A similarly high seven-day incidence to the current one occurred last year only on September…

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Beginning Oct. 17, Austria will begin booster vaccination against corona virus. However, who will receive it and how it will be done is still unclear. Third vaccination dose fixedAs of October 17, nine months after the first people in Austria received their second corona vaccination, booster vaccinations will begin. Whether and when this will actually be necessary for all healthy individuals, however, cannot yet be conclusively assessed based on the current study situation, according to the Ministry of Health. “The National Vaccination Committee is continuously monitoring developments here,” Health Ministry…

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Biopharma company BioNTech is advocating for a possible booster vaccination with its existing vaccine.“We think at the moment it is best to proceed with a booster dose for the existing virus strain to get the situation under control,” company CEO Ugur Sahin said Monday. Patients who received a third dose of the same vaccine showed significantly higher antibody levels than after the second dose, he said. It is not clear which virus variants might emerge in the coming months, Sahin explained. Therefore, it does not make sense to adjust the…

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At 31.3 years, the average age of people infected with the coronavirus is noticeably above 30 years again for the first time since the beginning of July. Of the 3,689 people infected last week (August 2-8), 42.6 percent were under the age of 25. The week before (July 26-August 1), this group accounted for 45.9 percent. AGES data show decline in infections among 15- to 24-year-oldsThe latest breakdown by age group from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) shows that the proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds who contracted…

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Now it is certain: from October 17, vaccination of the third dose will begin. This was revealed by the Minister of Health. In view of the rampant and increasingly resistant mutations of the coronavirus, it quickly became apparent that a third vaccination against the coronavirus – a so-called “booster vaccination” – would be necessary. Initially, however, it was not clear when exactly the vaccination of the third dose would begin. Now the date has been set. Health Ministetr Wolfgang Mückstein announced the concrete date on Monday. “We are currently assuming…

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Now that the European Commission has recognized the validity of the Corona vaccination certificates issued by the small states of San Marino and the Vatican, the Pope will also get his Green Passport. In the meantime, the Vatican is considering whether to ask the faithful at Wednesday’s general audience to show a Green Passport, as is the case under Italian regulations at major events. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in Italy in February 2020, the Vatican has always complied with Italian anti-covid measures. Vatican and San Marino recognize corona…

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The Department of Health plans to re-evaluate the situation in the fall, but the tests will remain free for non-vaccinated people in any case. Should Corona tests soon be subject to a fee? At least for non-vaccinated people? These questions are currently occupying Austria’s domestic politics. Following calls from some ÖVP-led provinces as well as from the Lower Austrian Medical Association, Medical Association President Thomas Szekeres has also called for an end to free tests. Szekeres sees paid tests as a way to boost the declining willingness to vaccinate. But…

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The pandemic must be brought under control, the prominent immunologist and presidential advisor warned. The best way to do that, he said, is vaccination. U.S. health expert Anthony Fauci is warning of the development of a new, even more dangerous variant of the coronavirus if the spread of the highly contagious delta variant is not contained. Fauci told NBC on Sunday, “If you allow the virus to circulate freely and don’t try to stop it, sooner or later there’s a chance you’re going to get another variant (…) that could…

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Almost a thousand people have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus during the city of Vienna’s new vaccination campaign in shopping malls. The vaccination is carried out with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which only requires one dose. Low-threshold, without appointment and without registration – that’s how vaccination works while shopping, for example in Lugner City. This is specifically to address a younger target group, which has so far been underrepresented in CoV vaccination. “It’s better to be vaccinated than not,” said a young woman in the “Wien heute” interview.…

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