Category: General Interest

Pfizer and Biontech’s CoV vaccines, as well as Moderna, are likely to be highly effective against the two virus variants B.1.617 and B.1.618 that are prevalent in India, according to a U.S. study. “We found that the vaccine antibodies were a little bit weaker against the variants, but not so much that we think it would have a big impact on the protective capacity of the vaccines,” Nathaniel Landau, one of the study’s authors, told the AFP news agency yesterday. The study by NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the…

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In the future, “alles gurgelt” tests can also be carried out in “gargle boxes”. Ten boxes will be available in Vienna. “Alles gurgelt” is now also available in test containers: After PCR tests have been available at home via smartphone and video function in Vienna for some time, this is now also possible in “gargle boxes”. Starting tomorrow, Viennese residents will be able to perform a test directly on site. All that is required is registration, which can be done by phone or online. A total of ten boxes will…

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The “Wiener Wiesn”, a major folk event in the country’s capital city of Vienna, has to be cancelled due to the Corona pandemic. The risk would still be too high. Fans of the Vienna Wiesn will not get their money’s worth again this year: as in the previous year, the major folk event will also be canceled in 2021. This has been communicated by the organizers on Monday. Many variants had been examined, but a folk festival worthy of the name was out of the question. The risk was too…

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The U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer is working on a drug to combat Covid-19, an anti-viral agent that people infected with the coronavirus are supposed to take at the beginning of the infection – as a kind of therapy. The tablets are supposed to kill existing coronaviruses in the body and prevent them from spreading. This was explained by U.S. health expert Anthony Fauci in an interview with the Italian television channel RAI over the weekend. “The anti-covid vaccine in tablet form is not yet a reality, but we are working…

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Today, after the elementary schools, classes in secondary schools are also back in session five days a week; the coronavirus-related shift work of the past few months has ended. In eastern Austria, this means that all young people will still be able to learn together in class on 33 days, while in the west it will be 38 days due to the later summer vacations. Hygiene and distance rules will continue to apply at school, and mouth/nose protection or FFP2 masks will also remain mandatory. Those wishing to attend classes…

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For Italy vacationers from Austria and other European countries, the previously required Corona quarantine after arrival will no longer apply from today, Sunday. For entries from the countries of the European Union, the Schengen area, as well as Great Britain and Israel, only a negative test is now required. Previously, people had to spend five days in quarantine and take a second test at the end. Italy hopes that with the abolition of the short quarantine more tourists will arrive. The bathing season started this weekend on the beaches of…

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Those who receive two different Corona vaccines in their first and second vaccinations have an increased likelihood of mild and moderate side effects after the second dose. That’s according to data from an Oxford University study published in the journal The Lancet. The study examined cases in which either the AstraZeneca preparation was administered first and then the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine, or vice versa, at intervals of four weeks. In both cases, the frequency of mild and moderate adverse events was increased. “The results of this study suggest that giving two…

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By March 31, 182.108 million euros had been spent on officially ordered PCR tests on suspected cases and the contacts of infected persons as well as screening examinations (for example in old people’s homes) alone, the daily newspaper “Kurier” reported, citing the Ministry of Health. The costs for personnel, test lanes, test kits and other material are paid partly by the federal government and partly by the provinces. Companies will receive a subsidy of ten euros per test, “making 28 million euros so far,” writes the “Kurier.” Pharmacies are reimbursed…

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Currently, there is hardly any other small talk topic than the Corona vaccination: Have you been vaccinated already? What kind of COVID 19 vaccine did you get? For many people, vaccination is a glimmer of hope in the pandemic – and therefore a reason to push. But does it make sense? After all, no one would want to diminish the effect of their Corona vaccination by drinking alcohol. After all, alcohol is a cytotoxin that can have a negative effect on the immune system. It is precisely this that should…

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