Almost 9,000 new infections in Vienna

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From 5,840 on Tuesday to 8,955 on Wednesday! Corona numbers skyrocket by over 3,000 cases in Vienna! The increase is also significant nationwide. In the past 24 hours, 47,795 new infections and 42 deaths were reported across Austria. There have never been such high numbers of cases! “The frontrunners are Lower Austria with 11,216 and Upper Austria with 9,007 new points. But already in third place in Vienna, with 8,955 new corona cases as of Wednesday, despite its continuing stricter corona rules. As of Wednesday, 9 March, 617,677 positive tests…

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Germany largely drops rules as of March 20

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Corona rules will be dropped mainly in Germany as of March 20, but a hotspot regulation gives the state options for intervention. According to their statements, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) agreed on this. “We have, I think, found a perfect compromise,” said Buschmann on Wednesday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin.” This is based on two pillars: First, there will be “virtually no more restrictions in the everyday lives of citizens.” Exceptions would be masks and tests where many vulnerable people, i.e., in nursing or…

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47,795 new infections were registered in Austria on Wednesday

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Forty-two new deaths linked to Covid 19 infection. From Tuesday to Wednesday, 47,795 new infections were registered in Austria. This is the highest value of the pandemic so far within 24 hours. That is why the value is also significantly higher than the average of the past seven days of 32,661. Currently, 313,593 people in Austria are actively infected with the Coronavirus. The seven-day incidence is 2,568.5. 470,322 new PCR tests were performed in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.16 percent. There are also…

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Compulsory vaccination in Austria: new decision to be made in three months

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Compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus will be suspended. The government decided this in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) explained that the duty is not proportionate with the prevailing Omicron variant. A new decision is to be made in three months, as Health Minister Johannes Rauch explained. The basis for the decision is the report of an expert commission. The recommendations contained therein would be implemented “of course, “Edtstadler stressed. The suspension of the obligation is taking place “because many arguments suggest that the encroachment…

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According to experts, about 77 percent immune to Omicron

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According to a model calculation by the team around simulation researcher Niki Popper, an estimated 77 percent of the population was resistant to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, which continues to cause very high infection rates. Due to some question marks about the newer Omicron sub-variant BA.2, the estimate refers to the BA.1 type. The immunization rate against Omicron has increased by eleven percentage points compared to the beginning of February. According to the experts of the company dwh, a spin-off of the Vienna University of Technology (TU), this…

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Help for refugees at the central railway station in Vienna started

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Caritas expects “worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War.“ For the time being, Austria is mainly a transit country. They are probably the forerunners of the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the Second World War: for days now, the number of people landing in Austria after an often chaotic flight from Ukraine has been steadily increasing. Once again, Vienna’s central railway station is a hotspot – for the time being, it functions primarily as a transit station. Most of them are mothers with their children who gather at the Caritas…

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What happens in the body after drinking a can of cola

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A can of cola (330 milliliters) carries around ten teaspoons of sugar into the body. But the popular drink also contains phosphoric acid and caffeine. A mixture that sets some processes in motion in the body. Sometimes a cold cola is a treat – even if we know that we are putting a lot of sugar and a few calories into our bodies, which is not suitable for our health. However, a lot more happens in the organism after you have drunk a can of caffeinated soft drink. And that…

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2 euros/liter: fuel prices in Austria continue to rise

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In Austria, there were the first petrol stations with diesel and petrol prices above two euros per liter this week, according to the ÖAMTC. On Monday, the first to be hit was a BP motorway petrol station at Brenner in Tyrol. Diesel cost 2.099, Eurosuper also 2.099, for the premium brand “Ultimate” both fuels cost 2.299 euros/liter. The VCÖ, however, noticed an increase in fuel tourism. And while Austria is hesitant about a price cap, Hungary has implemented it. This has already been noticed by Burgenland motorists, who are increasingly…

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UN: Over two million people fled Ukraine

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More than two million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion. The United Nations reported this in Geneva on Tuesday. According to the UN Organisation for Migration (IOM), a good 100,000 people from third countries were among them. Most of the people had fled to neighboring countries, said a spokeswoman for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). More than half of them, over 1.2 million, were taken in by Poland. UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi stressed that the flow of refugees from Ukraine was not abating. Grandi said that the Balkan…

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