Corona: 32 infections with the mixed variant “deltacron” in the UK

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A mixture of delta and omicron is not causing much concern among experts. Thirty-two corona cases have now been recorded in the U.K., in which a mixture of the Delta and Omicron variants has been detected. The U.K announced this. Health Security Agency this week. The variant, unofficially known as “deltacron, “had been placed on a watch list earlier this month after initial cases emerged. So far, the variant has not caused much concern among experts. Since the infection figures with both Delta and Omicron are falling in Great Britain,…

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23,274 new infections, significantly more than last Sunday

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A slight decrease is seen in hospital patients but more in intensive care units. The 23,274 new infections reported Sunday are below the average for the past seven days (26,633) but are significantly more than last Sunday’s 22,075. And while the number of hospital patients fell slightly to 2,368 (down 44), 197 people were cared for in intensive care units, seven more than the previous day. Among the provinces, Lower Austria was in the lead with 5,058 new infections, followed by Upper Austria (4,579), Vienna (4,082), and Styria (3,146). Tyrol…

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Protests around the world against the Russian war of aggression

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Around the world, countless people took to the streets again on Saturday to demonstrate against Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and show solidarity with the country’s people under attack. In Bern, up to 20,000 demonstrators were counted demanding a more rigid stance by Switzerland against Russia, and in the Finnish capital Helsinki, more than 10,000 people took to the streets. There were also demos in Vienna, Graz, and Linz. Several hundred people demonstrated in New York’s Times Square on Saturday afternoon (local time) against Russia’s war of aggression in…

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2-G Plus continues to apply when visiting hospitals and retirement homes in Vienna

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Countless measures to contain the pandemic have been with us for almost two years, and they have changed regularly. While the rules are relaxed in many areas, 2-G Plus continues to apply when visiting hospitals and retirement homes. When visiting Vienna’s hospitals or nursing and retirement homes, you must be vaccinated or recovered, PCR tested, and put on an FFP2 mask. In hospitals, one can enter in exceptional cases with a valid antigen rapid test, such as minors, those in need of support, pregnant women, or hardship cases. Few visits…

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Saturday: 25,972 new infections in Austria

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Thirty-seven deaths were associated with Covid 19 infection. The 25,972 new infections reported Saturday by the Interior and Health ministries are below the average of the past seven days (26,462) and slightly lower than the numbers a week ago (26,282). There were 37 Corona-related deaths and slight decreases in hospital numbers in return. The seven-day incidence was 2073.7 cases. There were 275,874 active cases in Austria, down 4,869 from the previous day. Since the pandemic’s beginning, there have been 2,636,258 confirmed cases in Austria. Recovered patients number 2,345,622, with 30,804…

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Environmentalists now warn of a nuclear disaster

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The Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhya operator reports that unit 6 is disconnected from the grid. Unit 5 was also shut down shortly before!” This breaking news set alarm bells ringing among nuclear experts Friday morning. “If the cooling system fails or missiles hit the reactors, all of Europe would be exposed to a nuclear disaster. After all, Zaporizhzhya is the world’s largest reactor site,” GLOBAL 2000 expert Reinhard Uhrig said worriedly given the first impacts in the region. Earlier, expert Dr. Cornelius Granig had warned of a chain reaction:…

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Pope Francis: “Let us not forget: War is madness!”

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Pope Francis has spoken out in a Russian tweet about the war in Ukraine. “Every war leaves the world worse than it found it,” the head of the Catholic Church wrote Friday on the online service Twitter. “War is a failure of politics and humanity, a shameful surrender, a defeat in the face of the forces of evil.” From a 2020 encyclical by the pope, the quote was shared on Twitter in the usual languages of Italian, Portuguese, Polish, French, English, Spanish, German, and Arabic – and, for once, Russian.…

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Starting Monday, masks are no longer mandatory in school classrooms

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As of Monday, if there is one case of infection, teaching continues in the school, and from the second case onwards, education continues in the distance classes will be dropped. Monday brings not only changed guidelines for class closures in the event of multiple cases of infection but also the return of compulsory attendance. In the regulation published on Friday, the mask obligation at schools is further relaxed: Mouth-nose protection or FFP2 mask (in the upper school) must only be worn outside the own class or group rooms. Until two…

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Omicron variant BA.2 now dominant

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Today, the even more contagious Omicron sub-variant BA.2 dominates Vienna. This is shown by the evaluations of the City of Vienna via the PCR test system “Alles gurgelt. “It is still unclear whether this will lead to a new peak in new infections. As recently as February 24, omicron BA.2 levels were measured at 48.9 percent, but now BA.2 has surpassed the 50 percent mark. The number of new infections has been at a high level for days. The 7-day incidence of 1,909.5 is the lowest in Austria but still…

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