More than 20,000 Corona deaths since the pandemic began

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Austria has had more than 20,000 covid deaths since the pandemic began. According to AGES, the number of Corona deaths exceeded 20,000 on Tuesday. Since the start of the pandemic, 20,010 people in Austria have died from or with Covid-19. Figures from the Ministry of Health and Interior had reported 18,738 Corona deaths in the morning. About nine weeks ago, thousands of deaths were subsequently reported by the Ministry of Health, but these are still not fully reflected in the provincial figures. In the past 24 hours, 7,281 new infections…

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Corona expert warns of next wave of infection in Austria

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“It will be a wave. It will also be high again,” geneticist Ulrich Elling on Twitter and in an interview with APA. But, “We can still do something.” The expert from the Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Molecular Biotechnology specifically addressed the protection of older and particularly vulnerable people. Another booster vaccination would increase protection against hospitalizations, for example. “Both society and policymakers adhere to the misconception that the Corona pandemic is a seasonal disease,” Elling said. But seasonality is only one factor, he said, which the Omicron BA.5 variant,…

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7,281 new corona infections and six deaths reported Tuesday

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Vienna – Health authorities reported a further increase in new Corona infections across Austria on Tuesday. A total of 7,281 new infections and seven deaths were recorded in connection with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Seven-day incidence rose to 478, with the highest incidence continuing to be reported in Vienna at 759.2. Lower Austria follows it with 561.4 and Vorarlberg with 491. A total of 41 people with the disease are currently in intensive care units. As of Tuesday, 64,765 cases were active, up 3,421 from Monday. There…

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“Prepare for the worst” – a new Corona explosion coming

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After the long weekends, the number of new Corona infections is rising rapidly. A problem in the eyes of Corona expert Hans-Peter Hutter. Summer has officially not even begun, and already the Corona numbers are rising again significantly. Five days ago, health authorities reported a high since April with 7,393 new cases. At the start of the week, this number was still considerably lower with 4,933 new infections on Monday – but by Wednesday, Corona experts expect another significant increase. Molecular biologist Ulrich Elling, for example, also expects cases to…

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17 percent of all food worldwide ends up in the trash

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According to a UN report, about 17 percent of food sold worldwide ended up in the trash in 2019. It said that 931 million tons of food ended up in the bins of private homes, restaurants, stores, and other eateries. That’s equivalent to about 23 million fully loaded trucks that, lined up, would reach seven times around the world, said the report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Calculated per Earth citizen, 121 kilograms of food waste was generated at the consumer level, 74 of it in…

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PROGNOSIS: Billions of people will still suffer hunger in 2030

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According to the UN Sustainable Development Goal, hunger should be ended worldwide by 2030. According to a recent analysis, this will not be achieved: Although the proportion of people affected will decline slightly – 2.5 billion people will still suffer from hunger. Jesús Crespo Cuaresma of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), with colleagues from Harvard University, the World Data Lab, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg near Vienna, has created a statistical model to forecast future global food insecurity. It is based…

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Continuing scorching heat wave in Austria

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In Austria, it will continue to be very hot in the coming days. However, on Sunday, extreme values such as the new regional record of 36.5 degrees in Feldkirch in Vorarlberg should not be reached. The experts of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) predicted maximum temperatures of around 30 degrees this week with a simultaneous risk of severe weather. However, temperatures remain significantly high for the second half of June, at least five degrees above average. In contrast to other European countries affected by the heat wave,…

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Protection against infection after omicron: early infection does not make immune

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According to a study, infection with the first omicron variant BA.1 may not protect against reinfection with later variants of this strand. As Chinese scientists have reported in the journal Nature, booster vaccines based on BA.1 – such as those being developed by Pfizer/BioNTech – “may therefore not provide broad protection against new omicron variants,” they say, citing laboratory experiments. Omicron vaccine: EU medicines agency reviews Biontech vaccineResearchers not involved in the study commented that vaccinations are likely to continue to protect against severe courses and should be given. “When…

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4,933 new corona infections and three deaths recorded

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The number of new Corona infections in Austria continues to rise. On Monday, when the fewest new infections are always reported due to low testing on Sunday – 4,933 more cases were registered. A week ago, there had been 2,905 new infections on Monday. The seven-day incidence rose to 444.2. In addition, three more deaths have been reported since Sunday. There was also a significant increase in hospital patients. 587 infected people are being treated in hospitals Domestic hospitals have had to admit 44 more Covid-19-infected patients since Sunday. On…

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