Category: General Interest

On the first Saturday after the end of the lockdown in Austria, there were sometimes long lines in front of stores, and shopping centers in particular were well attended. Fashion stores were particularly busy, offering discounts of up to 70 percent to Austrians eager to buy. The shopping streets were a little less busy due to the sub-zero temperatures. Shopping in all stores is possible again since MondayRetailers take positive stock after the end of the lockdownIn some clothing stores, customers had to plan for waiting times of an estimated…

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Due to the spread of the CoV variant first detected in South Africa, Italy is tightening rules for entries from Austria. Travelers from Austria to Italy must undergo a coronavirus test and quarantine. This is provided for in a new decree issued by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. With this, Italy wants to limit the spread of the virus mutations. “The fight against the pandemic continues. Because of the spread of viral mutations, the utmost prudence is required,” Speranza wrote on Facebook today. The minister extended a decree banning Brazilians from…

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13 February 2021 – MANILA, Philippines—Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morente announced that they will be implementing the resolution of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on expanding the list of foreigners allowed entry to the Philippines, starting February 16. In an advisory released by the BI yesterday, following IATF Resolution No. 98, beginning February 16, those with valid and existing visas who were not permitted to enter the country under the previous IATF resolutions are now allowed to enter. “Additional categories with…

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Once again, temperatures drop to almost -20 degrees in the night to tomorrow. While it consistently blows polar air into our latitudes, it provides cloudless skies. This combination is predestined for bone-chilling cold, and it continues to have us firmly in its clammy grip. The good thing, however, is that the wind is dropping throughout Austria, which makes the dry air less cutting. Winter shows its best sideThis circumstance and the sunshine shining over large parts of the country today and especially tomorrow invite to winter walks like in a…

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About 150 million people around the world have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus in recent weeks, “so there is now a very large body of experience,” says Markus Müller, rector of the Medical University of Vienna. Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, chairwoman of the national vaccination committee, is particularly pleased with new data on the vaccines. Because for all three vaccines that have been approved in Europe so far, these data show: the viral load is significantly reduced by vaccination. “So we can now say not only that everyone can be individually…

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According to a study from Israel, Sars-CoV-2-infected people reproduce fewer viruses after the first vaccination dose than unvaccinated people – and would thus be less contagious. If people become infected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 after a Corona vaccination, they apparently reproduce fewer viruses than unvaccinated people – and would thus be less contagious. This is true even after a single vaccination dose, write Israeli researchers in a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed. Clemens Wendtner of the Munich Clinic Schwabing sees the result as a “cause for hope”. It’s…

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The president of the Tyrolean Medical Chamber, Artur Wechselberger, has called on the federal government to use all available vaccines that are effective against the mutated virus in Tyrol. He lamented a lack of support from the federal government. He saw it as a challenge for the federal government to develop a strategy on how to deal with the Austrian vaccination concept when mutations call the effectiveness of vaccines into question. After all, the situation could repeat itself at any time in another province and with one of the other…

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More than 400,000 people in Austria have survived the Covid-19 virus and are considered “recovered”, but do these people now have any advantages? Wearing an FFP2 mask is necessary wherever it is not possible to comply with the two-meter rule – indoors anyway, but also outdoors at markets, for example. This also applies to recovered or vaccinated persons. Also the distance rule does not spare recovered and/or vaccinated persons. If this regulation is disregarded, a fine of 90.00 euros can be imposed. There is a small “advantage” here for persons…

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Microbiologist Sharon Peacock expects variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to continue to haunt the world into the early 2030s. “Once we have the virus under control or it mutates itself so that it is no longer virulent and causes disease, we can stop worrying,” Peacock, who leads the U.K.’s coronavirus sample sequencing program, told the BBC’s “Newscast.” “But looking into the future, I think we’ll be doing this (sequencing) for years. We’ll still be doing it 10 years from now, in my opinion.” It is normal and in most cases…

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