Category: General Interest

Austria is relaxing entry requirements for Great Britain, Russia, South Africa, India, Nepal, Botswana and Zambia. These countries will no longer be considered virus variant areas as of Sunday, according to an amendment to the entry regulation published yesterday. The quarantine requirement will no longer apply to those entering the country, provided they are fully vaccinated. In other respects, too, proof of vaccination will no longer be valid upon entry unless fully immunized, as of Wednesday. The Ministry of Health argues for the deletion of these countries from the list…

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The Czech Republic will in future classify Austria as a country with a medium risk of infection due to the rising infection figures on its CoV travel traffic light. Starting next Monday, Austria will move from the green list with a low risk of infection to the orange list of countries with a medium risk of infection, the Czech Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. No change for travelers from AustriaIn practice, however, this does not mean any change for people entering the country from Austria. They still have to register and…

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Top virologist Norbert Nowotny expresses his views on the coronavirus situation in Austria in a Puls24 talk. In the talk with Anchor Jakob Wirl, the expert explains that Austria is already in the fourth wave. “The numbers will continue to rise the closer it gets to fall. We can assume that,” he ventures a less than optimistic forecast. Because in the area of new daily infections and the 7-day incidence, there will be further rising figures in the future, he says. But what is essentially at stake is the overloading…

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As of October 17, booster vaccinations against the corona virus will begin.Whether and when this will actually be necessary for all healthy people, however, cannot yet be conclusively assessed based on the current study situation, according to the Ministry of Health. “The National Vaccination Committee is constantly monitoring developments here,” it is stressed to the APA. Currently, it is particularly important that people who have not yet been vaccinated are immunized and that as many as possible complete their vaccination protection in order to protect themselves in the best possible…

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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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