Category: General Interest

From the United Arab Emirates there is a message about the effectiveness of another corona vaccination. The vaccine from the Chinese company Sinopharm is currently being tested there in a Phase 3 trial. And now there are first interim figures: According to these, the vaccine is 86 percent effective. In the first report, which is distributed by the Reuters agency with reference to the UAE Ministry of Health, there is talk of “effectiveness against infection”. Whether this actually means that the vaccination prevents infection in 86 percent of cases (instead…

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The Upper Austrian village of “Fucking” has had to put up with many jokes about its name in recent years. Even some place-name signs were stolen. Now that the place is being renamed “Fugging”, the old place name signs are now being sold online. And at incredible prices! This is not the first online sale of this place-name sign. They were sold at unbelievable prices before. “Fucking” place-name signs sold onlineAfter the Upper Austrian village of “Fucking” was recently renamed “Fugging”, some are now taking the opportunity to auction off…

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Before the pope travels to Iraq at the beginning of March, he and his fellow travelers are to be vaccinated against corona. This was reported by the US magazine “America” according to Kathpress online on Tuesday with reference to Vatican circles. Like other states, the Vatican has already ordered vaccine doses. On Monday, the Vatican had announced the Pope’s plans for a trip to Iraq from March 5 to 8. The course and program will be announced later, taking into account the further development of the pandemic. The travel announcement…

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At exactly 6.31 a.m. local time, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan received the country’s first vaccination against the corona virus at University Hospital Coventry. In a logistical effort similar to military ventures, the British authorities have already brought 800,000 doses of the promising vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech into the country since the vaccine was approved a week ago. They are to be administered in the coming days. Only recipients will be medical personnel and citizens over 80 years of age. Among them are Queen Elizabeth, 94, and her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip. Both…

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Since Monday, new rules for the everyday life of Austrians have been in effect once again this year. AustrianPress provides answers to some of the questions raised by our readers: Is it possible to travel via the “Große or Kleine Deutsche Eck?” when I want to go to Voralrberg? Yes, says the ÖAMTC. There is no quarantine when passing through Germany. The situation can change, information under www.oeamtc.at. The government has announced new entry regulations. What will then apply to 24-hour nurses?The new entry regulation to apply from December 19…

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The code number for how contagious a person infected with SARS-CoV-2 is the Ct-value (“cycle threshold”), which is determined in a PCR test. It is calculated from the number of times a sample (nasal/throat swab) must be repeated in the laboratory to detect the virus. The more often the procedure is used to find pathogens, the fewer of them are present – i.e. less of them are passed on. If there is a high viral load, a positive result is seen earlier, and the person affected is considered to be…

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A study carried out at the University Hospital of Innsbruck concludes that CoV genes have stable long-term immunity. The results are in line with international findings, explained study leader Florian Deisenhammer in the APA interview. This has consequences for practical applications, for example when working in exposed areas or when vaccinating. The study was initiated by the Neurology Laboratory and conducted in cooperation with the University Hospital for Psychiatry II and the Institute of Virology. “The 29 study participants were on average 44 years old and all of them had…

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Already in the morning many Austrians took advantage of this for shopping. There were long queues in front of stores and traffic jams on the side streets. On Mariahilfer Strasse, many people went shopping – in front of some stores you even had to queue. Already in the morning there was much more going on than on a “normal” Monday, until noon the shopping street was noticeably filled up. The big run after almost three weeks of lockdown did not happen for the time being. Queues formed in front of…

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The mass testing of educators has not yet been fully completed. So far, 300 people, or 0.24 percent of those tested, have a positive result. Education Minister Heinz Faßmann said in a press conference on Monday that a number of schools in the country opened up after several weeks of hard lockdown. “School is not an operating room”Regarding the recently valid mask obligation for pupils and teachers, Fassman says: “I receive mails from parents who strictly reject the masks for children, but without suggesting an alternative. It rings through in…

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