Category: General Interest

The US pharmaceutical company Moderna wants to be the first company to apply for approval of a CoV vaccine in the EU. The application for a conditional approval is to be submitted to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) today, the company now announced. An application for emergency approval in the USA is also to be filed today in parallel, the company said. “We believe that we have a vaccine that is highly effective. We now have the data to prove it,” said Tal Zaks, Chief Medical Officer at Moderna. “We…

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Schools and retailers will be allowed to open their doors again in just over a week. The leisure industry will probably have to wait even longer. While across Europe there is fierce debate about a skiing ban, the employment market service continues to do its job unperturbed. It calls on job seekers to apply for open positions in winter tourism. Corresponding initiatives made the round in social networks in the last days. Particularly since waiters for après-ski restaurants are also being sought, which even in the case of an opening…

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The organizers of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which have been postponed until next summer due to the coronavirus, will face considerable additional costs. According to the Japanese news agency Kyodo, the organizing committee estimates the cost of measures to protect against the corona virus at around 100 billion yen (around 802 million euros).Comprehensive tests for athletesOn December 2, the Japanese NOK, the city of Tokyo and the Japanese central government plan to present an interim report on the measures, as the Japanese newspaper “Nihon Keizai Shimbun” reported today. According…

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Tomorrow there will be the first snow showers in some parts of Austria, followed by a short dry phase and then a onset of winter. Just in time for the meteorological beginning of winter the first snow is coming. On Tuesday, December 1, the offshoot of a cold front moves from the northwest over Upper Austria. ZAMG meteorologist Christian Ortner predicts “only a few weak snow showers”. But they can also reach the lower altitudes. This is because the snowfall line drops to 200 to 300 meters on Tuesday. But…

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In the race for Covid-19 vaccines, the biotech company Valneva, which maintains a large research site in Vienna, chose a special path. Behind the candidate name “VLA2001” is a vaccine containing inactivated viruses. With inactivated vaccines, the body is confronted with harmless viruses. As a result, the body’s own defense system deals with the pathogen and develops the necessary protective immune response. This approach has been tried and tested for many decades. “We knew from the beginning that we would be late with this approach because it takes longer to…

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During the Angelus prayer on the first Sunday in Advent, Pope Francis gave the faithful advice on how to spend Christmas in times of the Corona pandemic. The Argentinean Pope called for simplicity, attention to the neighbor and simple prayer in the family. The Pope appealed to the faithful not to fall into pessimism, apathy and reserve in the face of the pandemic and the economic crisis that is causing fear and anxiety to many people. Advent is a “time of hope”: “God is at our side to support us…

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The antigen mass testing planned for Wednesday in Vienna will be postponed by two days. As the “Kronen Zeitung” reported and a spokesman for Health City Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) confirmed to the APA on Saturday, the tests are now scheduled to start on Friday, December 4 The IT system could apparently not be put into operation earlier, the office of the Health City Council told the “Krone”. Previously, on Saturday, the Mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig (SPÖ), had defended the fact that the coronavirus “mass tests” in Vienna would…

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The UK government has commissioned a review of AstraZeneca’s vaccine results, as reported by CNBC – an essential step to demonstrate safety, efficacy and quality. The review is being carried out by the UK’s independent medicines regulatory body. Prior to the announcement by the British Ministry of Health, doubts about the design of the studies and the efficacy of the vaccine were increasingly raised. The Group had previously announced that an efficacy of around 90 percent could be achieved. There were no serious side effects. When the values from Phase…

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Minister of Culture Werner Kogler assumes that the New Year’s Concert will take place in 2021 – but before empty ranks. If Salzburg can play Bayern Munich in an empty stadium, the New Year’s Concert must also be possible, he said in the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” (Saturday edition). “Well, I think there will be a New Year’s Concert, but I fear without an audience.” The Philharmonic had recently emphasized that they would also play in the empty Vienna Musikverein if necessary. Riccardo Muti (79) will conduct the concert on January 1…

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