FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 Chancellor Kurz: vaccine ready for use in the first half of 2021

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Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is convinced that in the first half of 2021 not only a corona vaccine will be researched but also approved and used in Europe. He made this forecast regarding the further fight against the corona pandemic on Saturday after a meeting with the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies in Basel at the end of his visit to Switzerland. Meeting with heads of pharmaceutical companiesAfter a meeting with representatives of the pharmaceutical companies Roche, Novartis and Lonza, the Chancellor expressed his satisfaction with the state of…

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UPDATE: 939 new positive infections in Austria

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939 tested positiveSo far (status: yesterday, 18 September 2020, 23.00 o’clock) 37,500 persons in Austria were tested positively. That is 939 more than 24 hours before. There are currently 7,447 active coronavirus cases – the previous peak was almost 9,000 at the beginning of April, according to figures from the Ministry of Health. A total of 1,413,965 tests have been performed and reported so far. The figures is published by ORF.at. The public television company uses the figures from the Epidemiological Reporting System (EMS) as the basis for its reporting.…

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This is what the new traffic light looks like in Austria

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New districts are orange since yesterday, others yellow. And this should continue. Vienna. On Thursday the traffic light commission met again. Since yesterday, not a single Austrian state is completely green. So far, Carinthia, Burgenland and Salzburg were finally set to green in the traffic light. Now Eisenstadt, Rust, Villach and Salzburg have been switched to yellow. This means that there is now also a “medium risk”. An eighth district – Zwettl was added – is now orange.In principle, these should now be valid for at least two to four…

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Coronavirus: First hospital overcrowded

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Austrian newspaper “Österreich” reports that The Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Vienna is Austria’s leading corona clinic – is now overcrowded. The rising corona numbers are already leading to the first consequences in Vienna’s hospitals. The leading corona clinic, the SMZ Süd (Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital) is fully occupied. Currently there is no room for further Covid-19 intensive care patients there. The new infection cases must now be transferred to other hospitals such as the Floridsdorf Clinic, Favoriten or the AKH. 34 patients are currently in intensive care in Vienna, a total of 171 patients are…

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Trafficker report: Corona slows down illegal entry

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The Corona crisis has temporarily reduced the number of illegal immigrants. Since July, however, their number has been rising again, said Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer on the occasion of the publication of the 2019 Management Report on Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings. Currently, there is a higher migration pressure towards Austria. Nehammer wants to use drones in particular to monitor the borders. While in July and August 2019 there were 3,590 apprehensions, this year there were 4,390, an increase of more than 20 percent. “We will therefore…

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These corona rules are valid starting Monday, 21 September 2020

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Already on Thursday the leaders of the Federal government informed the Austrian population about the new measures. In order to prevent a second lockdown, they were necessary. “We know that infections mainly occur indoors, in private contact. What makes people happy is often the site of contagions. Social contacts must now be further restricted throughout Austria,” said Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. On Friday evening the “change of the COVID 19 relaxation regulation” was published. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober thus presented the legal basis for the restrictions, which will come into…

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Due to abrupt increase of COVID cases: England faces new lockdown

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Next country locks up: The lockdown in Great Britain will last two weeks. London. After Israel, which has been in lockdown since Friday, now comes Great Britain: 42,000 corona deaths, 381,614 cases, most recently 3,395 new infections per day – because of the dramatically worsening corona situation in Great Britain, the entire country could be locked up as early as October. Top researchers recommended this to the government in order to get a grip on the rapidly increasing numbers, according to the Financial Times. Vacations. The two-week lockdown is to…

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EU secures corona vaccine from Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline

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The pharmaceutical companies Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have reached a contractual agreement with the EU Commission on the supply of a potential corona vaccine. The agreement for the delivery of up to 300 million doses was sealed on Friday, Sanofi announced in Paris. The prerequisite is that the vaccine will also receive approval after the ongoing clinical trial phase. The approval could therefore “be filed in the first half of 2021”. The purchase price was not disclosed. Previously, the French Sanofi Group and the British GSK had announced that a…

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TikTok lock: No more downloads in the USA after Sunday

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App can neither be downloaded nor updated. The new deadline for a deal is November 12. For the China app WeChat in the USA it is finally over. The Videoplattorm TikTok has concerns about the security of user data.The government of US President Donald Trump is increasing pressure in the struggle for the future of the popular video app Tiktok. On Sunday APP stores in the USA will delete Tiktok, the US Department of Commerce announced on Friday. This will be effective for users starting Monday, a high-ranking government official…

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