Category: General Interest

There is no exact date to get into the Christmas spirit…. But apparently, there is such a thing as the exact time to put up the Christmas tree. Decorating and putting up the Christmas tree is a very important tradition for many people during the Christmas season. Although there is no fixed rule for when exactly the Christmas tree should be put up, the first trees are already on the market at the end of November. So when should you put up the fir? The tradition around the Christmas treeAccording…

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In the view of the European director of the World Health Organization (WHO), the end of the CoV pandemic has not yet been reached. We are in a more favorable phase than ever before, but this is still a pandemic, Hans Kluge told the news agency dpa. However, he also sees signs that we are just entering a new phase of the pandemic. Kluge cited the easier transmissibility and lower disease severity of the dominant omicron variant, combined with the higher immunity of the population, as reasons. source: ORF.at/agencies/picture: pixabay.com

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The weekend starts with more snowfall. But in three provinces, there is a yellow weather warning because of strong southern foehn. On Saturday, an Italian low will again shovel milder air masses to Austria and end the early winter phase, forecasts by the UBIMET severe weather center. The country will remain in a foehn southerly flow over the weekend; warning level yellow has been issued for Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg. The unsettled but relatively mild weather will remain with us until the beginning of the new week. In the recent…

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A study shows that mouth masks pollute our environment. Three million masks are thrown away every minute. Mouth masks protect us from infection with the coronavirus and are now part of our daily lives. Researchers at Southern Denmark have now found that 129 billion respirators are thrown away worldwide. That means three million masks end up in the trash every minute. Most of these discarded masks are disposable and made of microfibers like plastic. Given this incredible amount of plastic waste, scientists are concerned about the impact all these masks…

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Depending on your profession and earned income, you can expect your first pension to increase by 100 to 200 euros if you work one year longer. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the Economic Research Institute on behalf of the association Aktion Generationengerechtigkeit, which was presented on Monday. The values for the pension refer to the corridor pension to be started between 62 and 68 and are calculated on an earned income from 2019. 100 to 200 euros more pension per month, with one year more workThe…

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Currently, there is an increase in scams and fraud attempts under the well-known deception plot “daughter trick request for money transfers.” A 57-year-old woman from Graz fell for scammers on November 28. An SMS with a new number. The sender would supposedly be the woman’s daughter. The wording:” I have a new number. Please contact me”. In the conversation, unknown persons demanded a cash transfer to a Lithuanian account. The 57-year-old did so. A day later, the scammers demanded the woman’s credit cards. She then filed a complaint. The damage…

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The disease monkeypox gets a new name: The World Health Organization (WHO) is now using Mpox instead of Monkeypox, announced Monday in Geneva. For one more year, both names would stand side by side before only Mpox would be used. The new name was chosen because it is also easy to pronounce and use in other languages, the WHO said. The virus also gets a new nameThe virus itself is also to be given a new name. This is the responsibility of an independent expert council (ICTV), which has not…

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The city of Vienna wants to counter the horrendous energy costs with a subsidy. From December 5, applications can be submitted for this. The exploding energy costs bring many Viennese to the brink of despair, and not infrequently, horrendous bills leave the addressees helpless. The city wants to remedy the situation with an energy bonus, details of which were announced today by Peter Hacker, City Councillor for Social Affairs, and Peter Hanke (SP), City Councillor for Economic Affairs. The city is spending around 130 million to relieve the burden on…

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With the help of alleged emails from the Ministry of Finance, scammers are trying to get personal data from citizens. A tax refund of 578.99 euros is currently being held out to many Austrians in emails from the FinanzOnline tax platform. The problem with this is that the messages are not official documents but so-called phishing attempts. Cybercriminals try to convince unsuspecting victims of the email’s authenticity and want to get them to disclose personal data. Recipients are asked to click on a hyperlink and enter data such as their…

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