Category: General Interest

After cooling down over the weekend, the summer warmth is already returning to us. According to the ZAMG forecast, it will be hot again as early as midweek, with temperatures around 30 degrees. The weather in Vienna in detailThe coming week will begin unstable, with repeated rain showers. From Wednesday, it will be summery. The temperatures will rise above 30 degrees. The coming Friday will be unsettled again, according to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). Weather at the beginning of the week on Monday unsettledIn the south…

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Ticks are incredibly insidious. First, they hide in woods and grasses, then on our bodies. They can also carry some diseases that can be momentous for humans if we discover them too late. Since the parasites are appearing again in more significant numbers, we have summarized some tips for you to consider. The whole year is tick time because the parasites already feel comfortable and develop at temperatures between five and eight degrees. But they prefer warm climates, which is why they appear even more often in summer and infest…

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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) continues to see no increasing disease severity due to the currently prevalent corona variant Omicron BA.5 in Germany. There is no evidence that the now-dominant Omicron BA.5 subline causes more severe courses per se or is more lethal than previous variants, the RKI wrote in Thursday night’s Covid 19 weekly report. Nonetheless, “the large increase in infection cases alone” has also resulted in a correspondingly higher number of severe courses, leading to more hospitalizations, it said. “Death rates are rising with the high infection numbers…

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The Vienna Chamber of Labour is now warning of a price hammer, especially for basic cell phone charges and service fees next year. An analysis by the Chamber of Labor shows: The major providers – A1, Drei, and Magenta – have value protection or index adjustment clauses in their cell phone contracts. When inflation reaches a certain threshold, they can raise prices – they will go full through the roof next year due to high inflation. The Chamber of Labor has calculated: An average contract tariff with an introductory fee…

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On Thursday, the Austrian Parliament finally decided the end of the compulsory vaccination. The corresponding motion was passed unanimously. Next week, the Bundesrat still has to give the green light. There is no doubt about it. The ÖVP and the Greens state in their explanatory statement that the repeal is in no way intended to diminish the contribution of vaccination to the management of the pandemic, particularly concerning reducing severe courses. It is merely refraining from a legal obligation, the parliamentary correspondence states. Health Minister Johannes Rauch recalled the changed…

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Virologist Norbert Nowotny said Thursday’s new CoV measures in Vienna are very targeted. A mask obligation, for example, in supermarkets, is not considered meaningful at present. The expert is not sure whether the wave of infection will level off in the summer. CoV numbers will continue to rise, according to various model calculations. To what extent are there different scenarios, according to the City of Vienna expert staff. The first CoV summer wave since the beginning of the pandemic is on the rise, said the medical chief of the health…

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The heat will soon be back. After the bearable temperatures of the past few days, heatwaves are also coming to Austria again. The American weather model GFS predicts up to 40 degrees for Central Europe. According to this forecast, it will be between 38 and 40 degrees in the east and north of Austria on July 15. The current record in Austria is 40.5 degrees, according to wetter.at. In the middle of Spain, it is supposed to get even hotter with over 44 degrees. France expects 40 degrees on this…

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Corona numbers are soaring – also in Vienna. City boss Ludwig reacts and consults with experts on Thursday. Tightening measures are on the agenda. Vienna already has the strictest corona rules in Austria. For example, only in the federal capital are FFP2 masks mandatory in public transport and pharmacies, and quarantine is more strictly regulated in Vienna than in the rest of the country. Nevertheless, the number of new infections is also rising sharply in Vienna. Three thousand four hundred sixty were on Wednesday in Vienna, 12,529 Austria-wide. Unlike the…

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Corona traffic lights: Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland are switched to orange. The Corona traffic light puts the entire state and the three eastern states at high risk, i.e., orange, and the rest of the country at medium risk, i.e., yellow The extent to which this is factually true is difficult to judge. This is because the highest number of tests continues to be carried out in the east, which also means that more cases are detected. However, this has not been relevant for coloring for some time. Last week,…

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