Category: General Interest

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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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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