This week will bring sunny and cold weather in Austria

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According to Geosphere Austria, the coming week should bring sunny and cold winter weather. On Monday, some widespread cloud fields will move through from the northeast, and the sun will not appear more often until the afternoon. However, it will remain precipitation-free in most regions, only in the far west; some snowflakes could appear again towards evening and in the night to Tuesday. Daytime highs are minus four to plus four degrees. Sunny, wintry and cold weather in the new weekTuesday will be a calm and sunny winter day. Only…

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Mask off – in clinics and hospitals, it should remain

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With the end of June, all Corona special provisions will fall – including the mask obligation in vulnerable settings. Whether this is good? The government has presented the roadmap for the end of the Corona measures. In the Austrian Parliament on Wednesday, the path back to “normality” was set: April 30 marks the end of mandatory FFP2 masks in hospitals, nursing homes and other vulnerable areas. Many of the patients belong to the risk group. It is unclear whether there will be a separate regulation to protect them. One thing…

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Elon Musk predicts the end of the world: ‘Meteorite will hit us’

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For the richest person in the world, it is clear: the end of the world will come. And Elon Musk even wants to know how – the answer, he says, lies with the meteorites coming ever closer to Earth. According to NASA, the U.S. federal space and flight science agency, there are over 1.1 million asteroids in our solar system. Scientists pay particular attention to asteroids that come close to Earth’s orbit. The danger of a collision of the Earth with an asteroidBecause these near-earth asteroids could collide with our…

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Why Covid and Co. must continue to be monitored

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The government’s announcement to phase out all Corona measures by the end of June is understandable for virologist Andreas Bergthaler – even if questions about protecting vulnerable groups and Long Covid have not yet been sufficiently resolved. The announcement that monitoring will nevertheless be continued is positive. “In the case of PCR samples, Austria will carry out at least 1,500 whole-genome sequencings per week in the future, thus fulfilling the recommendation of the European authorities,” the health ministry said Wednesday. “That would be a lot and also internationally herzeigbar,” the…

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Next bonus fix – who cashes in big now

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The state generously reaches out to the population in times of inflation. Who can now count on further payments? Most recently, Parliament paved the way for another monetary bonus. As reported, the National Council paved the way for adjustments to the salary bonus for caregivers with a resolution. Through the amendment of the Entgelterhöhungs-Zweckzuschussgesetz, the federal government will provide 2,460 euros per person for 2023 alone, according to the House. The federal government will provide 570 million euros for this purpose for 2022 and 2023. In the new year, however,…

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Ukraine – WHO: Among the world’s most severe health emergencies

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The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies the situation in Ukraine due to the war as one of eight acute health emergencies worldwide. In the first nine months of last year alone, 14,000 civilian casualties were documented, the UN agency said in a report. 17.7 million people needed humanitarian assistance. 7.5 million Ukrainians were fleeing in Europe, it said.Of 471 attacks with heavy weapons on health facilities worldwide, 448 occurred in Ukraine, the report, presented to the Executive Board by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said. Russia, which attacked Ukraine on…

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Semester break: Closures on Vienna’s U4 and U6 subway lines

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Wiener Linien is using the semester break and weekends for important modernizations. This involves renewing around 1,000 meters of streetcar tracks in Vienna. Since 2014, Vienna’s oldest subway line, the U4, has been undergoing extensive refurbishment. So far, signal boxes have already been replaced, tracks and track beds renewed, and stations and tunnel ceilings refurbished. Wiener Linien is taking advantage of the Vienna semester vacations to renew several 43-year-old points along the line, including wooden sleepers. For this reason, the U4 will not be able to run between Karlsplatz and…

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Packaging waste after ordering food: Where to put it?

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Food taken away or delivered – despite packaging innovations, most customers currently have garbage. This raises the question: What garbage can the disposable packaging go in? Whether pizza in a cardboard box or chicken sweet and sour in an aluminum bowl – the disposable version is common for most food ordered or delivered. The initiative “Mülltrennung wirkt” explains in which garbage can which packaging waste belongs: Pizza box:Please put it in the recycling bin. But only if it is not too dirty. It cannot be recycled with food residues or…

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The origin of water on earth: Researchers think they’ve solved the mystery

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Where does the water on Earth, one of the few planets in the solar system where water can be found at all, come from? Two scientific theories have been opposing each other on this question for years. Was there water on Earth from the beginning, even when it was formed, or did it come to Earth only later through external influences such as meteorites? A new study could finally end this eternal debate. The origin of water on EarthAlthough all scientists agree that water is the most important element in…

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