Category: General Interest

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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The Robert Koch Institute expects infection rates to continue increasing as monkeypox spreads. “It will take until late summer or early fall to see if efforts to contain the outbreak have been successful,” Lars Schaade, vice president of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), told Funke Mediengruppe newspapers. He does not expect the curve to flatten out for several weeks. One reason for this, he said, is the long incubation period of up to 21 days. Schaade is optimistic that the number of cases will fall if the vaccine is well…

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An appeal for intervention comes from the World Health Organization (WHO) in light of a tripling of monkeypox infections in Europe within two weeks – and is directed at European countries. Countries in the region must step up efforts in the coming weeks and months to prevent monkeypox from “taking hold in a wider geographic area,” WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge urged Friday. More than 4,500 monkeypox cases were reported in EuropeMore than 4,500 cases of monkeypox have now been reported from Europe, according to the report, accounting for 90…

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Acute forest fire danger in Vienna: barbecue ban is effective immediately.Due to the prevailing drought, the city of Vienna warns of a massively increased forest fire risk.For this reason, smoking, barbecuing, handling open fires, and any fire lighting in the forest and its immediate vicinity are prohibited with immediate effect, said a release from the city’s Forestry and Agriculture Department on Thursday. The ban is in effect until further notice and will only be lifted in the event of sustained rain showers. Drought in Vienna: massively increased risk of forest…

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A cold front reaches Austria on Friday, but it only briefly gives us some cooling. Already from Sunday, the temperatures climb back above 30 degrees. Vienna weather in detailFrom the west, a cold front moves over Austria on Friday. But it remains with a short intermezzo – then the next summery warm heat period builds up immediately, forecasts the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG). The cold front interrupts the hot spell only briefly on FridayInitially, however, extensive clouds and rain showers will arrive from Vorarlberg to East Tyrol…

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