Category: General Interest

By the end of this week, a total of 51,300 people should have received the first coronavirus vaccination, according to the Vienna Vaccination Plan. In addition, 6,400 more people are expected to have received the second dose, bringing the total number of vaccinations to 57,700. 18,000 residents of Vienna nursing homes were to have received vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 by Jan. 31. According to the City of Vienna, 20,560 vaccinations were administered in the in-clinic sector and 8,500 in the outpatient sector, which also includes doctors’ offices. In each case, 1,000…

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Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) is aiming for a nationwide option for corona testing. In the question time of the Bundesrat, Anschober named the “medium-term” goal of offering a test service in every municipality, if possible. The range of test roads has already been massively expanded in cooperation with the federal states, he said. In addition, the minister also announced agreements with the interest groups for tests in companies. Self-rapid tests to be implemented “as quickly as possibleAnschober wants to implement the already agreed self-quick tests “as quickly as possible”.…

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Based on analyses of the genetic material of Sars Cov-2 viruses in samples, the suspicion of the new virus variant has been confirmed: To date, 149 detections of the British variant (“B.1.1.7”) and three of the South African variant (B.1.351) have been discovered. This is according to a release from the Ministry of Health. Additional data are still needed for an Austria-wide assessment of the trend, it says. As of today, the 152 variant detections with the complex whole-genome sequencing compared with about 14,800 active corona cases in Austria. Samples…

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The Merkur supermarket chain will become part of the Billa family! The new name of the stores and what the customers expect will be known in April. According to the Austrian free newspaper “Heute” the Austrian supermarket chain, which belongs to the German Rewe Group and has been operated by Billa AG since August 2020, will become part of the Billa family. From April, the stores will be renamed “Billa Plus”. “Two strong sales formats that have been successful for decades are now moving even closer together, can support each…

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Car drivers will pay a fine of 120 euros for missing the 2021 vignette. Neither excuses nor ignorance will protect you from a fine as of February 1 if you have not yet obtained a new vignette by that time. The annual freeway vignette for 2020 will lose its validity at the end of January. As of February 1, only the new adhesive version in the color “apple green” or the digital vignette 2021 is permitted. Excuses or ignorance do not protect against a “substitute toll” – i.e. a fine…

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German vaccine manufacturer Biontech wants to supply the EU with as much of its product as possible than was actually planned. “Of course, we are working to also make up for the reduction in deliveries of ampoules and even deliver more than 100 percent of the doses in the first quarter,” CFO Sierk Poetting told the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspapers (Thursday editions). Biontech and its U.S. partner Pfizer are currently supplying less vaccine to the EU than planned because of rebuilding work at a Belgian plant. However, the…

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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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