Category: General Interest

Online survey: half of Austrians think about changes in standard of living and plan savingsSobering result of a recent survey: the corona-induced crisis makes Austrians rather pessimistic about the future. Corona: Life value index remains the same. Crisis is a major concern67 percent assume a general deterioration of economic conditions and people’s quality of life, according to an online survey of 1,000 people by IMAS. About half (46 percent) have already thought about changing their standard of living and making savings in the area of daily life. Partly forcing savingsSavings…

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Whether RNA vaccines can prevent transmission of coronavirus in addition to Covid-19 lung disease was long unclear. Now there are positive signs from pharmaceutical company Pfizer – but no proof yet. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla spoke to the Irish newspaper “The Journal” of “encouraging” data. In animal studies, he said, it has already been possible to prove the prevention of infection, but in humans it is not yet fixed. Bourla expects more concrete data in February. Proof still pendingThe British tabloid formats “The Sun” and “Mirror” have already reacted to…

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Vaccination campaigns are taking off around the world. Will we only be able to see the world with a Corona vaccination? Initial signals point in a different direction. Will the Covid 19 vaccination soon catapult us back to normality, or is it not as harmless as people assume? Will we only be able to travel with proof of vaccination in the future? Many questions are currently being hotly debated on the subject of vaccination. Not everyone is happy about the fact that there could even be a vaccination obligation for…

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Monday afternoon, about 263,000 people had already registered for Corona vaccination. Temporarily, the rush also caused waiting times. Run on registration: in Vienna, 263,000 pre-registrations for a Corona vaccination had already been recorded by Monday afternoon. This was communicated by the office of Health City Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) to the APA. The rush also led temporarily to waiting times. Official start for registration on MondayRegistration at https://impfservice.wien/ has been possible since Saturday – although the official start was only today. According to City Hall, however, the “soft start” has…

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According to the published decree, Austria extends border controls with the Czech Republic and Slovakia for another two weeks. On Sunday, the extension of the lockdown in Austria was announced until February 8 (for now). Now the border controls to the two neighboring countries Czech Republic and Slovakia, which were introduced ten days ago, have also been extended for another two weeks. The borders to these two countries are thus to continue to be controlled up to and including February 7. This is stated in the corresponding published decree. The…

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FFP2 masks should be offered at cost in grocery retail stores. FFP2 masks should be used more often, experts now advise in view of the new virus variant.Flowered, colorful, patterned or otherwise creative masks will be seen less in the future than before. Because starting from 25 January the FFP2 mask is to be carried obligatorily at least in the trade and the public means of transport. In the press conference on Sunday it was called besides that the FFP2-Masks, which offer more protection than conventional cloth masks, in the…

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Registration on online platform is already possible before the official start on Monday Even before the announced start on Monday, it has been possible in Vienna to register for the coronavirus vaccination on the pre-registration platform impfservice.wien. On Saturday, an unadvertised “soft launch” of the function took place. Interest was very high over the weekend: by Sunday afternoon, as of 3 p.m., 120,000 Viennese had already left their data. The City of Vienna justified the earlier start of the pre-registrations with the fact that one wanted to avoid a collapse…

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“The population is no longer sufficiently supportive of the measures,” said Oswald Wagner, vice rector for clinical affairs at Med Uni Vienna, in a panel of experts on the coronavirus situation in Austria on Saturday. What the specialists recommend to the federal government: “General lockdown without exception.” This would have to apply until the 7-day incidence, i.e. the cases per 100,000 inhabitants, would fall below 50. Only then could there be a gradual opening at all, according to Wagner’s personal opinion. He also believes that the home office should become…

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Now the e-vaccination passport is to replace the current paper vaccination passport nationwide by the end of March. The basis for this is a central, national vaccination register in which all vaccination data is stored. The website futurezone.at has summarized the most important information below: What can the e-vaccination certificate do? As with the classic paper vaccination card, the e-vaccination card will in future record all vaccinations that a person has received. This also applies to the Corona vaccination, which consists of two partial vaccinations. In the first stage, individuals…

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