Weather: new week brings early summer temperatures

This week, high-pressure influence will visibly become weather-effective, and temperatures will reach early summer values. Weather in Vienna On Thursday, even up to 30 degrees can be expected. Monday will start with mostly sunny weather. During the day, individual spring clouds will develop, and rain showers and thunderstorms will occur mainly in the foothills of the Alps and south of the main ridge of the Alps. The wind will be weak from the east. Early temperatures will reach six to twelve degrees Celsius and 18 to 25 degrees daily highs.…

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98 years ago: How Mother’s Day came to Austria

The day dates back to an initiative by Marianne Hainisch. She called for the establishment of Realgymnasien for girls as early as 1870. Today, Sunday is the day again this year: Mother’s Day. On the initiative of Marianne Hainisch, the day was celebrated in 1924 for the first time in Austria. Her son Michael was the first Federal President of the Republic from 1920. Most people are probably familiar with the mother of Mother’s Day in this country as the founder of the domestic women’s movement. As early as 1870,…

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Covid Crisis Coordination Office (GECKO) keeps a close eye on omicron variants

The Corona situation has eased in Austria. However, there are the new Omicron variants, BA.4 and BA.5, which have already started a new wave rolling in South Africa. These are now being closely monitored. Four scenarios for the fallThe first cases have already been detected in Austria as well. The nationwide Covid Crisis Coordination Office (GECKO) is closely monitoring developments. The new report states that it will soon be possible to make further assessments. The absolute priority at the moment is to prepare for autumn. Omicron variants are closely monitored…

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Mask obligation in the trade and public transport remains for the time being

The mask obligation for vital trade remains for the time being. Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) has rejected the demand of trade unions to waive the Corona protection in business and banks. The regulation with the measures for protecting vulnerable persons, which also apply to hospitals and nursing homes, public transport, and public authorities, will remain in force until July 8. Rauch argued Friday on “ZiB2” that two new Corona variants – BA.4 and BA.5 – had recently been detected for the first time in Austria. This was “a delicate…

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Temperatures up to 25 degrees will be reached in the coming days

According to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) forecast, the weather will become less volatile in the coming days, and temperatures will rise. On Tuesday, up to 25 degrees are possible. Today, Friday, however, heavy clouds will prevail in many parts of the country. There will be short sunny windows, especially in the lowlands. Both in the inner Alps and the south and during the day, showers are expected from the northwest, locally with thunder and lightning. There will be locally gusty solid peaks, while away from them…

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Valneva’s dead vaccine to become a booster

The Austro-French group Valneva seeks approval of its corona vaccine VLA2001 as a booster after other vaccines or infections. For this purpose, a clinical trial with human volunteers has been started in the Netherlands, Valneva announced in a release Wednesday. For possible approval as a primary immunization against Covid-19 in the EU, the inactivated vaccine remains in the review process at the EMA drug agency. But that review process is delayed. Valneva still hopes to receive conditional marketing approval for VLA2001 in the European Union this quarter, initially expected by…

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Omicron just as serious as earlier variants

According to a study, the Omicron variant is as dangerous as previous mutants of the Coronavirus. “We found that the risks for hospitalization and mortality were nearly identical,” explains four scientists involved in the U.S. study from Massachusetts General Hospital, Minerva University, and Harvard Medical School. The analysis is based on 130,000 Covid 19 patients over the past two years in several countries, including South Africa, Scotland, England, and Canada. The researchers thus refute the previous assumption that the variant is more transmissible but less severe. “We found that the…

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Omicron vaccines expected to be approved by September

According to estimates by the EU medicines agency EMA, vaccines against the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus variant could receive approval by the end of September. The best chances would be for appropriately adapted mRNA vaccines from the companies Moderna and Biontech, EMA Director of Vaccine Strategy Marco Cavaleri said Thursday at a press conference held by the agency in Amsterdam. The necessary clinical trials are underway, he said. The Austrian-French company Valenva, after all, wants to have its inactivated vaccine, which is not yet on the market,…

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New Corona variants BA.4 and BA.5 also in Austria

The new Covid 19 subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have also been detected in Austria for the first time. The city of Vienna has reported the first cases of variant BA.4 and one case of variant BA.5 to the Ministry of Health, the ministry said Wednesday. Individual cases have also been identified in Styria and Salzburg. Nationwide wastewater monitoring has revealed no evidence of the virus variants initially detected, mainly in South Africa. New Corona variants BA.4 and BA.5 are also in Austria According to initial assessments by experts, “the two…

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