Category: General Interest

Do you have a restless sleep and keep waking up at the same time of the night? Sleep experts and psychologists have been getting to the bottom of this phenomenon with the help of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Sleepless nights can be cruel, especially the next morning when you feel like you’re exhausted. Insomnia includes the inability to fall asleep, waking up at night, or shallow and restless sleep. Until now, scientists and sleep researchers agreed that insomnia depends on various factors. Among them, sudden change of weather, caffeinated drinks…

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Relaxations also occur in Catholic churches.There are also relaxations for churches in the Corona measures. In the future, singing will be allowed again – in liturgical singing and in choral singing. However, the mask requirement and distance rules remain in place. The Roman Catholic Church has published on Tuesday analogous to the relaxations of the Corona measures the new framework order for services. There is green light from Wednesday on liturgical singing as well as choral singing. Mask obligation and distance rules remain in place. For baptisms and weddings, the…

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With the end of the lockdown, the Vienna Health Association is adjusting the rules for visitors and patients at its hospitals and care facilities. As of Wednesday, patient visits are generally unrestricted for those recovered, tested and vaccinated, with inpatients allowed one visit per day. Patients continue to require a negative test result, regardless of whether they receive inpatient or outpatient care. Thus, anyone visiting an outpatient clinic must continue to present a negative Corona test, even if they have already been vaccinated or have recovered. In an examination situation,…

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After Lower Austria, Vienna also offers to validate self-tests online via photo. One has to take a photo of the nose-pick test taken and send it in. The web app will be launched Wednesday night. Vienna creates the possibility to validate Corona self-tests online – i.e. to have them checked and confirmed. This means that the so-called “Nasenbohrertest” will then be valid for 24 hours and can be used, for example, to visit restaurants. The launch of the homepage will take placeon Wednesday night, a spokesman for Health City Council…

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Starting tomorrow, the so-called 3G – tested, recovered or vaccinated – will be valid in Austria as an entry key for gastronomy, sports, hotels, etc. In two and a half weeks, the green passport should then be ready on a national level: From June 4, the a QR code will be available in Austria, confirmed Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens). The domestic implementation should also already correspond to the EU-wide QR code announced from the end of June, the minister said. According to Mückstein, until June 4, all proofs are…

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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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