Category: General Interest

Vaccinations against the coronavirus are scheduled to begin in Germany on Dec. 27. Health Minister Jens Spahn informed the Conference of Health Ministers about the approval and supply of the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer, the city of Berlin announced yesterday. “For the federal states, this results in December 27 as the start date,” it said. In particular, it said, vaccination should begin in nursing homes. Earlier, news agency Reuters had learned from insiders that the move was subject to approval on Dec. 23 by the EU and subsequent batch…

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The approval of Biontech/Pfizer vaccine will be decided on December 21. If it comes to pass, the first Austrians could be vaccinated shortly after Christmas.About 10,000 doses of Biontech and Pfizer’s Corona vaccine could be used in Austria before the end of the year “in some selected old people’s and nursing homes” based on the earlier opinion of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is expected to be available as early as Dec. 21. This was said by Covid special representative Clemens Martin Auer to the “Ö1-Morgenjournal” on Wednesday. EU…

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) plans to present its opinion on the approval of the Corona vaccine from the companies Biontech and Pfizer on December 21 – eight days earlier than last planned. Start on Christmas EveThis means that vaccinations can start in Austria as early as Christmas, as the Ministry of Health said. The confirmaiton was published by the Austrian daily newspaper KURIER on Wednesday. The logistics for the distribution and administration of the vaccine are in place, so that the delivery and vaccination of the first 10,000 doses…

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Before students and teachers return to schools, there will be testing on January 7 and 8. Parents are also invited to be tested. To ensure a safe start to school after the Christmas vacations, mass tests of teachers and students are to be held in January before they return to classrooms. As the Ministry of Education announced Tuesday, students, parents and teachers will be offered to be tested for coronavirus infection on Jan. 7 and 8. Thus, the regular school operation starts after Christmas only on January 11. It is…

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In principle, everyone who enters from 19 December must be quarantined for ten days – but there are exceptions for commuters, carers and for “humanitary reasons”. The entry regulations for the Christmas season came out today – and with them a number of exemptions for both professional travelers and 24-hour caregivers. They are summarized in the regulation of the Ministry of Health, which was issued today, Tuesday. According to it, in principle, everyone who enters from December 19 must be in quarantine for ten days. Free testing can be done…

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Vienna has devised a Christmas Corona testing strategy. Residents of the federal capital can be tested free of charge before and on Christmas. To this end, all three existing test lanes – at Happel Stadium, at the Austria Center and on the Danube Island – will continue to operate and will continue to do so over the holidays. At the Austria Center, where the focus was most recently on critical infrastructure employees, everyone can now be tested – even more than once, as the office of Health City Councilor Peter…

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Vienna Airport in Schwechat is expanding its CoV test offering. In addition to PCR tests, rapid antigen tests are now also offered. The medical certificate of the antigen rapid test already leads to entry facilitations in some countries. At the airport’s Health Center, it has already been possible since the beginning of May to take a molecular biological Covid-19 test (so-called PCR test). With immediate effect, interested parties can now also have rapid antigen tests performed. Such a test quickly provides information about an existing Covid 19 infection, and the…

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By January 2021, the package for the content of the care reform will be completed. This was announced today by Social Minister Rudolf Anschober. Currently, he said, they are in the midst of implementation, where the main goal will be to attract 100,000 additional employees to the nursing profession through appropriate incentives. Anschober said staff is the most important area, citing two problem areas: First, of the current 127,000 employees, more than 30 percent are currently over 50 years old and will retire in the next ten years, he said.…

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The Corona mass tests came to an end on Sunday in many states. Less than one percent of the participants were positive. In Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Salzburg, Carinthia and Styria there was still the last opportunity to be tested on Sunday. In Upper Austria, mass testing will continue until Monday. The percentage of positive results has been low so far. In Carinthia it was 0.5 percent, in Styria 0.4 percent tested positive. In Vienna and Upper Austria the rate was 0.3 percent, in Lower Austria only 0.14 percent. The…

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