Category: World News

Two days after Austria set a record for new infections, Germany reported an all-time high in 7-day incidence, with the Robert Koch Institute reporting the number of confirmed cases per 100,000 population per week at 201.1 this morning. The previous record was set at the peak of the second CoV wave on December 22, 2020, at 197.6. In Austria, this value is around 600. It is important to note that, unlike a year ago, many people are now vaccinated; the rate is particularly high among the very elderly, who are…

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More than 249 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 5 million infected people have died. More than 7 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. The latest developmentsAustralia, after a delayed start to its vaccination campaign due to a lack of vaccine, has now reached its goal of a nationwide complete vaccination rate of 80 percent of all residents over the age of 16. “We did it” wrote Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Twitter. Now, he said, the country can…

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Due to the exploding CoV numbers, Slovenia is also tightening restrictions as of Monday. As Health Minister Janez Poklukar announced at a press conference last night, public gatherings and private celebrations such as weddings will be banned. Contact restrictions will apply, and only the closest family members will be allowed to meet. Nightclubs will have to close, and restaurants will only be allowed to stay open from 5 am to 10 pm. Slovenia has already had a strict 3G rule in place at the workplace since mid-September. The center-right government…

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WHO finds the pace of corona transmission in Europe “extremely worrying.” It said it is currently at a critical point in the pandemic, but the situation varies widely between individual countries.Europe is once again at the center of the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office responsible. “We are at another critical point in the resurgence of the pandemic,” WHO Europe Regional Director Hans Kluge said Thursday at a press conference broadcast online. The current pace of virus transmission in the 53 countries of the…

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The corona situation in Europe is coming to a head: in several countries, the number of new daily infections has multiplied in the last four weeks. Austria is not the only country where the number of new covid infections is skyrocketing: A month ago, 2,693 people became infected within one day; on Thursday, 8,593 cases were already reported – 219 percent more. The situation is similarly dramatic in our neighboring countries: The 28 days from Oct. 6 to Nov. 3 saw a 196 percent increase in infections in Germany, 184…

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The number of daily reported new Corona infections in Germany has exceeded the peak of the third infection wave in spring. Within one day, 33,949 new infections have been reported to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The record had been recorded on April 22 with 29,518 new infections. A week ago, the value was 28,037 infections, the seven-day incidence rose to 154.5 (Wednesday: 146.6, previous week: 130.2). It initially remained open to what extent Monday’s All Saints’ Day holiday in five states played a role in the numbers. Within 24…

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Facebook has renamed itself Meta, as previously reported. This means that the group’s other services will also get a new name addition. WhatsApp from Facebook will now become WhatsApp from Meta. Instagram from Facebook will now also become Instagram from Meta. As PCWelt.de reports, the Meta Group has already begun rebranding the apps. Beta users already see the Meta logo on their screens and the footer “from Facebook” has been replaced with “from Meta,” according to information from WABeta.Info. The changes were first noticed on WhatsApp beta version 2.21.220.21, but…

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CoV vaccinations for children between the ages of five and eleven are starting in the USA: After the CDC issued a vaccination recommendation for this age group with the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine last night (local time), the first younger children were vaccinated that same evening. President Joe Biden called it a “turning point” in the fight against the pandemic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given the vaccine emergency approval for this age group late last week. The government then already began shipping out more doses of the vaccine…

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The island nation of Tonga in the South Pacific has imposed a one-week lockdown as a result of the first recorded infection with the corona virus. Residents of Tongatapu Island, which includes the capital Nuku’alofa, should stay home until next Tuesday, government leader Pohiva Tuionetoa said Monday night. This serves, “the safety and health of our people.” On Thursday, a passenger aboard a repatriation flight from the New Zealand city of Christchurch had tested positive for the virus. When the result was announced, the 215 people aboard the plane were…

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