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For months, more and more Austrians have been ordering parcels, the practical delivery to the doorstep is popular – plus 30 percent recorded, for example, the post office in the previous year. However, the delivery boom is also prompting fraudsters to invent new scams. Identity theft, in particular, is affecting more and more people. “Cases have exploded recently,” says Martin Heimhilcher, head of the Information and Consulting division at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. However, not the parcel services or online stores are the fraudsters, but criminals who order parcels…

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The WWF writes this in its report “The Big Throwaway” that million tons of food end up in the garbage can in Austria every year. That’s equivalent to one-fifth of our current food consumption of 55 million tons per year. This figure also includes fruit and vegetable peelings and meat and fish bones. But even if you exclude this waste, 10 million tons of food waste could be avoided today. Most of the food we waste is in our households: Of the seven million tons we throw in the trash…

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Many have their summer vacation behind them, but for many, the (foreign) vacation is still to come. What those affected need to know now. At the beginning of August, France became the (almost) last European country to lift covid-related entry rules – only in Monaco is 3G proof still mandatory. Thus, for the first time in over two years, travel is possible again as it was before the pandemic. Protective measures have also been largely lifted or relaxed across Europe. “However, many differences in the corona measures apply locally. It…

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Vacation has many facets, whether on the beach, in the mountains, or unfamiliar cities. The decisive factor is the change of scenery from everyday stress and the recreational effect. The way vacation time can influence health was most recently examined in a Finnish study. In the “Helsinki Businessmen Study,” scientists looked at, among other things, the extent to which the length of vacation can affect health. A total of 1,222 middle-aged male executives took part in the study. They had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease and were…

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In more and more countries, two and a half years after the pandemic outbreak, mandatory quarantine is now being lifted and replaced by voluntary isolation. In Austria, only a traffic restriction currently applies; infected persons are allowed to take part in everyday life wearing a mask and take a five-day break from it, provided no more symptoms appear. But how long could they – theoretically – infect others? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendations on this question. The experts advise infected people to…

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