“Aktion Familienfasttag” strengthens women’s rights in the Philippines

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Action Family Fasting Day – Soup Sunday On Sunday, 13 March 2022, parishes invite people to eat soup together through Aktion Familienfasttag to support women in the Philippines with donations. The benefit event “soup sunday” of the volunteer workers from the parish of Leopoldau in Vienna’s 21st District showed that doing good is a lot of fun and brings joy. Aktion Familienfasttag is a development policy organization that helps to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged women in the Global South and, at the same time, raises awareness for development…

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Over 38,000 new infections in Austria

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From yesterday to today, 38,060 new infections related to Covid-19 were registered in Austria. 38,060 Corona infections were reported in Austria by the health and interior ministries on Sunday, a week after the “opening,” with most measures essentially removed except in Vienna. In addition, active 384,363 cases were reported, 11,049 more than the day before. So far, there have been 3,153,927 positive test results in Austria. As of today (13 March, 9:30 am), 15,207 people have died, and 2,754,357 have recovered from the effects of the Coronavirus across Austria. In…

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Opinion: Make peace not war!

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Thursday, 24 February 2022: The date will be etched in our history. Powerlessness, terror, horror, having to think the impossible. Inability to act. War after so many years of peace. Corona is not yet over – and already the next threat. Twenty-four hours we see images from Ukraine, Kyiv, and the borders with Poland. Through private media such as films and mobile phone pictures, ideas are more personal and emotional than all the war images that have reached us far from other war regions. People speak to us in our…

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Studies show what junk food does to the body

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The term junk food refers to highly processed foods that contain a lot of sugar, fat, and salt. In other words, those foods and drinks that we can’t keep our hands off. Yet there are many good reasons why we should resist. The term junk food originates from the USA and means “waste food. “So it makes it unmistakably clear that we are talking about unhealthy food. The range is broad and includes many foods. Most of them have been heavily processed industrially and contain a nasty mixture of lots…

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Austria: Positive PCR tests pile up at schools

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The rising corona numbers are also making themselves felt at schools. This week, almost 19,000 positive PCR tests were registered, significantly more than the previous week (around 14,000). In total, 1.6 percent of the tests were positive in the two test runs (except for Vienna). Across Austria, eight schools are wholly blocked, and an additional 856 classes are entirely or partially obstructed. In Vienna, 5,266 pupils (previous week: 4,607) were registered with infections, although a different testing system than in the rest of the country is used here with “Alles…

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Sunny weather in Austria

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At the beginning of the week, the influence of high pressure will slowly weaken. On Tuesday, the north will come under a marginal low-pressure system developing over Central Europe; it continues according to “uwz. at“. The sun will shine widely on Sunday, and the sky will often be cloudless. During the day, only a few harmless clouds will appear in the atmosphere in the far west. The wind will blow briskly to enormously from the southeast in the northeast, especially in the Tullnerfeld there will be gusts. In the Alps,…

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Saturday: Over 44,000 new infections in Austria

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From yesterday to today, 17 new deaths linked to Covid-19 were registered in Austria. 44,465 Corona infections were reported in Austria on Saturday, a week after the “opening day,” with most measures largely gone except in Vienna. With this record value for this day of the week, the seven-day average thus increased to 39,510, the seven-day incidence to 3,079.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and is therefore again above 3,000. The opening steps acted as an “infection accelerator”; last Saturday, 31,289 new infections and 289,414 active cases were counted, now 373,314,…

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Reasons why some people don’t get infected with Corona

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After two years of the pandemic, some things still puzzle us. For example, many have experienced having contact with an infected person and still not contracting Corona. How can this be? Researchers from the United Kingdom have investigated what this could be due to and now provide the first results. In the controversial study, volunteers were deliberately infected with the coronavirus. British study: This is why some people are spared from Corona For the past two years, respirators, disinfecting hands, and keeping our distance have been part of our daily…

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Underreported deaths study: possibly three times as many Corona deaths as registered worldwide

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Nearly 6 million deaths were recorded in the first two years of the pandemic. However, according to a recent study, there may be three times as many Corona deaths worldwide as officially registered – around 18 million. Official: More than 6 million corona deaths The pandemic may have claimed many more lives worldwide than previously assumed. According to a current study in the scientific journal “The Lancet, “18.2 million more people died between January 2020 and December 2021 than would have been expected in years without the pandemic. Officially, only…

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