Category: General Interest

In the east of Austria, temperatures will remain above 30 degrees in the coming week, but according to the ZAMG forecast, the potential for thunderstorms increases every day. According to the ZAMG forecast, it will remain midsummer hot in the east for the next few days. On Monday, residual clouds and local fog will quickly dissipate and for a few hours it will even be sunny everywhere. Starting from the mountains in the west and southwest, however, the tendency for thunderstorms will again increase significantly almost everywhere during the course…

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Styria, Austria – “Those willing to be vaccinated have more or less been vaccinated off,” sums up Wolfgang Wlattnig, deputy director of the provincial office in Styria. While there used to be 100,000 stings per week, this number has now dropped to half. What experts feared weeks ago has come to pass: “There is definitely no longer a shortage of vaccines, but a shortage of those willing to be vaccinated,” Wlattnig regrets. Although 1.2 million Corona vaccinations have now been carried out in Styria, not all citizens are considered capable…

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The government is now introducing mandatory PCR testing for travel returnees from Spain, the Netherlands and Cyprus. This was announced by Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) on the sidelines of a press event in Wels on Saturday. For the time being, the testing obligation only applies to returnees who arrive via direct flight from Spain, Cyprus or the Netherlands and who are not either fully immunized or can show a negative PCR test. PCR test must be taken at the airport at the latestIn future, anyone arriving from Spain, the…

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Instead of the previously estimated 33 percent, 40 percent of the food produced worldwide does not find its way to consumers but ends up in the garbage can, according to a study published Tuesday by the environmental organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF). That equates to 2.5 billion tons of waste generated in agriculture, industry and by consumers. This has a devastating impact on the environment. Food waste supports global warmingFood waste is responsible for ten percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the study. Calculating new figures from the…

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The EU’s Medicines Agency (EMA) is set to make a preliminary decision on whether to approve another Corona vaccine for children. The agency’s experts will discuss Friday whether to approve the vaccine, made by U.S. manufacturer Moderna, for 12- to 17-year-olds as well. The assessment of studies by the manufacturer should be completed, the EMA said in Amsterdam. If the experts give the green light, only the EU Commission would have to approve. That is considered a formality. The preparation “Spikevax” would then be the second Corona vaccine that may…

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According to AGES, new infections attributable to travel are on the rise in Austria. About one-third of infections can be attributed to travel. In Vienna, travel is responsible for only one in five infections. Travel now accounts for almost one third of all new coronavirus infections. This is shown – with reference to calendar week 27 (July 5 to 11) – by a look at the latest epidemiological clarification of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). According to this, 31.1 percent of all clarified cases could be traced…

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According to current data from AGES, the proportion of Corona infections with the delta variant in Austria is already 43 percent. Most cases were detected in Vienna. The so-called delta variant of the coronavirus, which was first detected in the Indian state of Maharashtra, continues to advance in Austria. Meanwhile, about 43 percent of the 2,190 sequenced samples in calendar week 28 are responsible for this mutation. This is shown by the latest variant report of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). This amounts to 942 cases Austria-wide…

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Vienna takes a special path in Austria and does not abolish the obligation to wear masks in shops on July 22. In the rest of Austria, the mask obligation should fall on that day in those stores that had to close during the lockdown. End of the mask obligation in the tradeIn Vienna, the wearing of a mask will still be required when shopping in stores after July 22 – and not only in the food trade. A corresponding ordinance would be issued soon. This was communicated by the office…

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Again thunderstorm alarm in Austria! Once again, a severe hailstorm moves over parts of the country, there is a red weather warning level. Heavy hailstorms including heavy rain have left a trail of destruction in large parts of Austria in recent days and caused severe damage. The weather situation has calmed down again at the beginning of the new week, but the storm is not yet defeated. On the contrary! The Austrian Severe Weather Center has Monday evening again declared the red weather warning level, affected by the two provinces…

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