New Corona measures: Mask outdoors, softening of quarantine rules

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While FFP2 mask rules are tightened significantly, in many cases, contact persons of infected persons no longer have to stay at home. 8853 new corona cases were reported Thursday, plus the first death attributed to the Omicron variant. “The virus,” Chancellor Karl Nehammer put it at a press conference of government and experts, “knows no holidays.” And so Epiphany also brought a series of new Corona measures for Austria. Some of them are softenings of previous rules, especially when it comes to quarantine. But with the extension of the mask…

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No lockdown for now: these are the new Omicron rules

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The federal government, state governors and experts from the “all-state Covid Crisis Coordination” (Gecko) discussed the Corona situation Thursday morning. The mood is tense: Austria is facing an enormous wave of infection by the new virus variant Omicron. On Epiphany Day, 8,853 new cases were reported, up from nearly 10,000 the day before, clearly accelerating the intensity of the fifth Corona wave. The government does not intend to impose a lockdown, but to prevent it with a package of measures. Sanctions will be tightened, businesses that do not comply with…

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51,352 vaccinations were administered in Austria onWednesday

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A total of 6,635,916 people have received at least one Corona vaccination, and 6,294,074 (70.5 percent) have valid vaccination protection, according to E-vaccination data. Yesterday, 5,238 first-time vaccinations (10.2 percent) were recorded, more than the seven-day average of 2,982. A total of 20,874 first-time vaccinations were given within the past seven days. Second stabs were given 14,582 times, also above the seven-day average (10,097). A total of 70,680 second stings were administered in seven days. At 31,532, third stitches (61.4 percent) again accounted for the very largest share. They were…

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8,853 new corona cases on Thursday in Austria

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8,853 Corona infections were reported in Austria on Thursday. Although this was slightly fewer than the day before – when the number of new cases had jumped dramatically from around 5,500 to 9,761 within 24 hours – the figure is once again well above the average for the previous seven days (5,421). The seven-day incidence on Thursday was now also already 424.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, after 361.8 on Wednesday. As of Thursday, there are 51,364 active cases in Austria, 6,374 more than the day before. Since the start of…

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Omicron: WHO warns of emergence of more dangerous variants

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Are we seeing the emergence of more dangerous viral variants? The World Health Organization has warned of this in light of the Omicron variant of the Corona virus. The more Omicron spreads and multiplies, “the more likely it is to give rise to a new variant,” WHO emergency response expert Catherine Smallwood said Tuesday in an interview with the AFP news agency. WHO emergency expert speaks of ‘dangerous phase’“We are in a very dangerous phase,” Smallwood stressed. “We are seeing very sharp increases in infection rates in Western Europe, the…

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Measures against omicron to be determined on Thursday, 6 January

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The expert panel “Gecko” prepared facts and figures before the federal-provincial summit today, Thursday. The government will eventually announce the concrete measures based on the presentation of the Covid Crisis Coordination. A “hard lockdown” is apparently not an issue. Calls for quarantine relaxationsAt 11 a.m. Thursday, the federal government will consult with the states and experts on the current Corona situation. The “all-state Covid Crisis Coordination” (Gecko) did not make any specific recommendations for concrete measures at its meeting on Tuesday afternoon, according to information obtained by APA. Accordingly, the…

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Austria’s Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein advises home office and mask even outdoors

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Omicron is already causing new infection numbers to skyrocket. “We have to slow down Omicron and keep the country running,” said Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein yesterday on Twitter. “Wear mask even outdoors if 2m distance doesn’t work out. A well-fitting FFP2 is still essential protection.” If possible, work from a home office, he said. And, “Protect yourself with vaccination.” The second dose lowers the risk for a severe course, he said, and the third dose reduces it even more significantly and effectively. Omicron is more contagious than its predecessor Delta,…

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Omicron spreads – 1.3 million Britons quarantined

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Omicron continues to rage almost unchecked on the island. More and more people are having to go into self-isolation – but the government isn’t budging. Around five percent of all Britons are currently sitting at home: as the Daily Mail reports, 1.3 million people in the UK are already in self-isolation. For the population, the effects are already being clearly felt. The situation is so dramatic that there are piles of garbage on roadsides all over England because the responsible refuse collectors no longer have enough staff available. The failures…

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Up to 17,000 Corona infections possible next week

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Due to the dominance of the Omicron virus variant, which has now also reached Austria, the Covid forecasting consortium in Austria assumes in its current calculation a strongly accelerated infection incidence, which will lead to an increase of Covid patients in normal wards in hospitals. Up to 17,000 new infections are expected in the coming week. Next Wednesday (January 12), according to the experts’ calculations, there will certainly be more than 10,000 new infections within 24 hours. With high probability it will be more than 13,000, as a mean value…

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