Category: General Interest

“In contrast to Saturday, these are now stabilized figures – as they have been since September 20. However, these figures are still clearly too high – we have to bring the numbers down. We are working hard on this,” said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober on the current infection figures from Sunday. The strongest increases again came from Vienna (249), Lower Austria (134) and Upper Austria (127). The number of “active cases”, which currently stands at 8,704, has been “relatively constant for two weeks”, the head of department summarized. The reproduction…

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Pope Francis left on Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. The head of the Catholic Church drove to the pilgrimage city of Assisi, some 150 kilometers north of Rome, to sign his new encyclical. According to the Ansa news agency, he arrived there in a car. The encyclical will be the third such teaching letter of the 83-year-old Francis. The text, which bears the Italian title “Fratelli tutti”, is to be published only on Sunday noon in the Vatican in Rome. The new encyclical will deal with…

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Over 1,000 new coronavirus infections have been reported from Thursday (as of 23:00) to Friday (as of 23:00). The 1,000 mark was thus exceeded in this country for the first time since March. According to Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens), this is not due to a “particularly high number of tests”, but partly to the “growth of existing known clusters”. The minister described the number of tests in a 24-hour comparison as “average”. According to him, the large increase in new cases is due “to a particularly large number of…

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CoV-2 has not spared US President Donald Trump either.“We’re okay.” With these words the First Lady of the USA, Melania Trump, made her corona infection public on Twitter on Friday. Her husband, US President Donald Trump, also tested positive for the novel virus and was anxious to appease her: “We will get through this together,” he twittered. It is difficult to predict whether the infection will develop mildly for the politician. However, Trump meets a number of criteria that could increase the risk of a severe course. AgeFor example, the…

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Only if all citizens followed the rules could a second lockdown be preventedIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the population in an unusually drastic speech: only if all citizens followed the rules could a second lockdown be prevented: We are risking just about everything we have achieved in the last few months. The great decline in attention and compliance with the measures is also having an effect in Germany. And federalism. Merkel had to agree on common minimum rules, for example on wearing masks, at the same time as the…

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Both new infections and corona intensive care patients continue to increase. In just 24 hours, coronavirus cases increased by 873 – almost 900 – yesterday. This is the number of new positive cases that were recently reported during the “first wave” and the lockdown. Unfortunately, there can be no talk of a stabilization or even a drop in new infections. On Monday – on the weekend there is less testing and less registrations – there were 556 new infections. On Tuesday – the day the traffic light commission takes as…

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Most new cases are in Vienna with 402, followed by Upper Austria with 152 cases. The number of intensive care patients increased by a quarter within one week. In Austria, 873 persons have been tested newly positive for the coronavirus in the past 24 hours (as of 9.30 am). Most of them were in Vienna with 402, the Ministry of the Interior reported on Thursday. A total of 8,370 active cases were counted. So far there have been 45,686 positive test results in Austria. As of today, 802 people throughout…

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The Ministry of Health today rejected the claim by FPÖ leader Norbert Hofer that a second lockdown would be prepared from 23 October and thus before the All Saints’ weekend. There was no question of this, according to a spokeswoman in response to an APA inquiry in the ministry. A second lockdown is only planned if the health system is on the verge of collapse, and there is no question of that. At the moment, the main focus is on targeted measures where the coronavirus traffic lights show the need…

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Currently, 491 corona patients are treated in hospitals, 90 of them in intensive care units. 609 new SARS-CoV-2 infections in 24 hours were reported by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health on Tuesday at 9.30 a.m., which is a slight increase compared to Monday. This compares to 864 recoveries, which means that the number of actively ill patients in Austria has decreased by about three percent to 8,329. The balance is negative, however, both in terms of the number of deaths, which rose to 796 with…

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