Category: General Interest

Still this year or not until mid 2021? These are the experts’ forecasts. About 180 vaccine candidates are being developed against the new coronavirus worldwide, some of which are already being tested in large-scale Phase III studies. But when can we expect a vaccination? The experts’ forecasts are quite different. Vaccination already in December?According to Markus Zeitlinger, Head of the University Clinic for Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni Vienna, approvals for the first vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Europe could well be granted in December or January. If this is…

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This year’s national holiday on 26 October is exceptional in every respect, including the official celebrations. In his speech at Heldenplatz, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) will once again call for discipline against the spread of corona. The Council of Ministers on Monday is to decide to make the militia more attractive. Already at nine o’clock an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers takes place in the Chancellery. Unsurprisingly, small improvements for basic military personnel and the militia are being made on the occasion of the holiday, including new incentives…

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In the midst of the still unresolved corona crisis, daylight saving time ends on Sunday. On October 25, the clocks in Europe are turned back to 2.00 a.m. at 3.00 a.m. and thus to normal time. Otherwise always good for discussions, humanity is currently dealing with a more important topic, the pandemic. Therefore it is still completely unclear how the time change in the EU will continue and when the planned abolition can be implemented. After all, the ball is still in the court of the EU Council of Ministers,…

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What does the Corona Regulation mean for driving? Currently, the two-person rule per row of seats (including driver) is mandatory if the people in the vehicle do not live in the same household, the ARBÖ informed on Friday. “Kinship alone is not enough,” explained ARBÖ lawyer Martin Echsel. So it is still allowed to take the neighbor’s child to the gymnastics club or to go on excursions with a friend. “However, no more than two people per row of seats are allowed. This means that a family of four is…

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The day after the traffic light with 21 new, red regions was switched on Friday, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) warned to be careful during the autumn vacations: “If you can do anything, stay at home. Meanwhile 27 percent of the people in Austria live in one of the 25 regions with a red light, but this is “no reason to panic”, he said, as intensive care bed occupancy is not yet an issue and a lockdown can be prevented. On Friday 2,571 new infections were reported. “This is exactly…

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on the countries affected by rapidly increasing infections to take action. “Too many countries are on a dangerous path,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today in Geneva. “We are at a critical point, especially in the northern hemisphere. The coming months will be very difficult.” He called on governments to take immediate new measures to prevent further deaths and to save health services from collapsing. If governments rigorously tracked contacts and isolated infected persons and quarantined their contacts, curfews could still…

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Washington. Last year almost half a million infants died due to air pollution, according to a study by the U.S. Health Effects Institute and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Babies in India (116,000 deaths) and sub-Saharan Africa (236,000 babies died) are particularly exposed to this deadly danger.According to the study, toxic fumes from fuels used for cooking were responsible for two thirds of the deaths. Research shows that there is growing evidence that the risk of underweight babies and premature births increases when mothers are exposed to high levels…

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For Vienna, Vorarlberg and Tirol Germany already expressed weeks ago a travel warning. If today at 9:00 o’clock the Robert cook Institut will publish a list with the new risk areas, probably further domestic Lands of the Federal Republic will be added. Namely all except Kärnten, which is to be observed for the time being. This is reported by the Salzburger Nachrichten. Into force the travel warning is to step starting from Saturday midnight. The Foreign Ministry is said to have been informed about it by the German Foreign Office…

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The Commission calls on citizens to continue to behave responsibly. According to the EU Commission, there is no quick solution in sight for the corona crisis through vaccination. “It will still take months before a vaccine is found and distributed,” said Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic on Wednesday in the European Parliament in Brussels. Nobody knows today when the pandemic will finally be over. He appealed to citizens to help contain the pandemic by their behaviour. “Nobody in Europe wants a second lockdown,” said Sefcovic. “Therefore I call on all European…

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