Category: General Interest

Over 80-year-olds can now be vaccinated by their family doctor, and over-65s will also be able to do so from February 1. The Ministry of Health on Wednesday published the long-awaited regulation for Corona vaccinations by general practitioners. This means that people over 80 may be vaccinated as of the regulation’s entry into force, and over-65s as of February 1. The fee is also regulated: the responsible health insurance provider must transfer 25 euros to the doctor for the first partial vaccination and 20 euros for the second. The vaccination…

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An adapted version of the Austrian Immunization Dashboard will be rolled out Wednesday evening. The Ministry of Health will then also present the number of partially and fully immunized individuals according to the e-vaccination passport, as announced during an online presentation to media representatives this morning. So far, the ministry’s overview of figures at info.gesundheitsministerium.gv.at shows the doses requested by vaccination centers and the vials of serum delivered to them; a theoretical number of vaccinated persons was last calculated from the second figure. This estimate of just under 190,000 persons…

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The Austrian Car and Motor Touring Club (ÖAMTC) reports that for some time now there has been an increase of online providers offering digital freeway vignettes for Austria and other European countries at considerably higher prices. Vignette 2021 apple green and more expensiveAnyone who needs a vignette should pay close attention to where they purchase it. Because there are expensive online portals that offer them, where the customer pays considerably more: up to 67 percent more can make up the price difference here. “The sites basically do not sell the…

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The number of confirmed Corona infections worldwide has risen to more than 100 million. This is according to a data analysis by Reuters news agency on Wednesday. Covid-19 has now been detected in nearly 1.3 percent of the world’s population. Some 668,250 cases have been reported daily since the beginning of the year. The worst-affected countries – the U.S., India, Brazil, Russia and the U.K. – together account for more than half of all cases, but represent only 28 percent of the world’s population. The hardest-hit region is Europe, which…

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The US company Apple is the most valuable brand in the world. This is the result of a study published on Tuesday by the brokerage firm Brand Finance. According to the study, Amazon and Google, also based in the U.S., follow in second and third place. “A brand is first of all an intangible asset, we try to give it a value,” the director general of Brand Finance, Bertrand Chovet, told the AFP news agency in this regard. The basis for this, he said, is on the one hand the…

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Early next week, the extension of the hard lockdown could be announced. After a marathon discussion by the federal government on the Corona situation on Monday, a decision on when the lockdown should really end was postponed. Only in the coming week they want to announce a decision. According to the Austrian free newspaper “Heute”, the decision will be made on Monday – at the same time as the first day of the semester break in Vienna and Lower Austria. It will then be clear whether the lockdown will remain…

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Only when at least 40 percent of the population is vaccinated does a “soft” lockdown take effect. Mathematical models show that a “lockdown light” will not take effect until at least 40 percent of the population has been immunized. Until then, the researchers conclude, tough measures, including school closures, will be effective in combating the pandemic. Even with optimistic assumptions, a “soft” lockdown cannot break the spread of Covid-19. This is the conclusion reached by a research group led by computer scientist Robert Elsässer at the University of Salzburg. Simulations…

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As of Monday, 1.5 million over-65s in Austria have each received ten FFP2 masks free by mail, according to the Health Ministry. Free masks for people over 65“By January 27, this process will be completed and thus 17 million masks will have been delivered to 1.7 million people,” it said in a statement. Social institutions have also been supplied. “Our common goal is to ensure the best possible safe participation of the elderly population in social life. With the free FFP2 masks, we are protecting this particularly hard-hit group during…

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More than 400,000 people have already registered for coronavirus vaccination in Vienna. Among older people, there are apparently concerns that registration is not possible without the Internet. It goes however also over the health Hotline 1450. People over 80 are to be vaccinated in Vienna from mid-February at the latest. Already now the reservation for it is possible, not only in the Internet under Impfservice.wien, but also with the health hotline 1450. Even if that within one week already over 400,000 humans made, one would not have to worry that…

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