Austrian News

The Corona situation in Australia is worsening dramatically: authorities in the country of 25 million people today reported more than 64,700 new infections, almost 17,000 more than yesterday and a new high. By comparison, at the end of November, the figures were still at 1,000 to 1,500 new infections daily. Particularly affected are the most populous states of New South Wales with the major city of Sydney and Victoria with the metropolis of Melbourne. Almost 1,500 people are now hospitalized in the east coast region in connection with Covid-19 –…

About two-thirds of covid patients currently admitted to normal wards are not fully immunized, and four out of five critically ill patients in intensive care units do not have adequate protection. These data show that booster vaccinations work well against coronavirus – yet vaccination coverage in Austria is declining. In the last seven days, 205,552 stings were given against Corona – nearly 20 percent fewer than the week before. According to the Ministry of Health, 46,651 Corona vaccinations were recorded in Austria on Tuesday, of which 5127 were first stings…

Nearly 1,000 Dutch tourists who previously spent their winter vacations in Austria have tested positive for the coronavirus back home. To be exact, according to a report by the NL Times news portal, 964 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 last week between Dec. 27 and Jan. 3 who had previously visited Austria over a 14-day period. According to the report, infections attributed to Austria account for 15.8 percent of all CoV cases attributed to foreign countries, despite the fact that the Netherlands was declared a virus variant area by Austria…

According to the experts of the Covid forecasting consortium, the fifth wave has begun. Due to the dominance of the Omicron virus variant, which has now also reached Austria, the panel assumes in its current calculation that there will be a strong acceleration in the number of infections, which will lead to an increase in the number of Covid 19 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…

Current figures provided by the Ministry of Health clearly show that booster vaccinations against Covid-19 work. Two out of three patients who had to be hospitalized with Covid-19 in a normal ward on Tuesday were not vaccinated or not sufficiently vaccinated. In intensive care units, an average of more than four out of every five affected are not fully immunized, or about 80 percent. Proportion of vaccinated Covid patients in hospitals decliningThe proportion of vaccinated Covid 19 patients in hospitals has declined since late November, when third sticks against coronavirus…

Pope Francis has lamented the lack of vaccines in poorer countries. “There is still much to be done and in some countries adequate treatment remains a luxury. This can be seen, for example, in the scarcity of vaccines against covid-19 in the poorest countries, but even more so in the inability to treat diseases that require much simpler medicines,” the pope said in his message for the 30th World Day of the Sick. “We bless the Lord for the advances that medical science has made, especially in recent times; new…