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ÖBB has launched an upgrade program to modernize its existing night train fleet and increase comfort and services for passengers. A total of 22 seating cars from the existing fleet will be upgraded to new multifunctional couchette cars for ÖBB Nightjets. As new “comfort couchette cars,” they will be individually integrated into the existing Nightjet trains so that modernized cars and barrier-free compartments will be available on as many routes as possible in the future. The first upgraded comfort couchette cars will be in service on the Vienna – Bregenz…

AstraZeneca has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency approval of a Covid 19 drug. International pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca plans to launch a new drug to prevent Covid-19. The company has now applied to the U.S. authorities for emergency approval. The drug is intended in particular for people who respond poorly to vaccines due to a weakened immune system. In August, the company announced the results of its Phase III trials, which it said showed the drug was highly effective in reducing risk of COVID infection. More…

So far unknown perpetrators tried to trick several people in St. Pölten and in the district of Baden into entering bank data by means of so-called phishing SMS on October 4, 2021. The victims receive an SMS with the sender “LPD AT” and are asked to pay an “outstanding fine” or an “outstanding fine”. In doing so, the victims are supposed to open an attached link and enter their bank details. The domain name appears to be “LPDGELDSTRRAFE.ME”. Police recommendationThe police or any other criminal authority will certainly not send…

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of booster shots of its coronavirus vaccine for people 18 and older. In-house studies have shown that booster vaccination increases the vaccine’s protective efficacy to 94 percent, Mathai Mammen, head of research and development at J&J subsidiary Janssen, said yesterday. Unlike other vaccines, one dose is officially enough for J&J’s vaccine. The U.S. clinical trial showed that a second dose injected about two months (56 days) after the first dose was 94 percent…

Slowly, more and more children are also being vaccinated against Corona. In Upper Austria, 24 percent of 12- to 14-year-olds have already received a prick. We are approaching 60 percent. Currently, 57.6 percent in Upper Austria are fully immunized, meaning they have already received two vaccinations. In the Urfahr-Umgebung district, the figure is already over 60 percent, namely 63.1 percent. The lowest vaccination rate is in the district of Braunau with 50.8 percent. This is the result of the current announcement of the Upper Austrian crisis management team. 2,408 Upper…

Every fifth coronavirus infection detected in the past week has affected a child between the ages of six and 14. This is shown by the current evaluation of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). According to this, of the total of 12,668 infections confirmed by the authorities between September 27 and October 3, 2,530 – exactly 20 percent – were attributable to this age group. Meanwhile, schoolchildren, apprentices and trainees, with a 7-day incidence of 331 cases per 100,000 population, have significantly outpaced 15- to 24-year-olds, who had…