Austria opens on Sunday after hard lockdown

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Vienna – Different regulations will apply in the provinces after the lockdown ends for vaccinated and recovered people as of December 12. Burgenland, Tyrol and Vorarlberg will open all permitted areas from Sunday. Lower Austria, Salzburg and Styria will not open restaurants and hotels until December 17, Vienna not until December 20. Upper Austria will probably remain in lockdown until December 17, Carinthia will decide first. 2G applies almost everywhereThe federal government specifies “minimum standards” that apply throughout Austria. The federal states have the option of being stricter. In principle,…

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Austria opens after lockdown: regulations in the provinces

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Generally, the lockdown ends Saturday (Dec. 11) for the vaccinated and recovered, but it continues for the unvaccinated. This was announced by the government after the Corona summit today. However, the states are proceeding differently with the openings. An overview. Everything about the opening in ViennaWhile Burgenland, Tyrol and Vorarlberg open completely from Sunday, according to APA information, in Lower Austria, Salzburg and Styria, the gastronomy and accommodation businesses open only on 17 December. Until that day, Upper Austria will probably remain completely in lockdown. In Vienna the catering trade…

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From Tuesday to Wednesday: 5,663 new infections in Austria

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From Tuesday to Wednesday, there were 5,663 new infections in Austria. Today’s new infections are further below the average of 6,091 over the past seven days. In addition, this brings the number of active cases down further to 90,048. In the past 24 hours, 305,915 new PCR tests were performed. This results in a positive rate of 1.85 percent. The seven-day incidence rate decreased to 479.01. There are also 58 new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection to report. Thus, the pandemic has claimed 12,979 lives in Austria so far.…

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Wednesday and Thursday night: heavy snowfall in the west and south

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The weather on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception brings new masses of snow to Austria. In some regions, the highest severe weather warning level has been issued. On Wednesday, the frontal system of a low-pressure area with a core over the British Isles reaches the west of the country. On its back, cold air masses flow to Europe, an Italian low forms. On Wednesday and Thursday night, it will bring heavy snowfall in the west and south, and widespread winter conditions. In the course of Thursday, the snowfall slowly…

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Vaccination of five- to 11-year-olds against Covid-19 in Spain and Portugal; U.S. immunologist Anthony Fauci said the Omicron could cause less severe disease

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About 267.8 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 5.2 million infected people have died. More than 8.2 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. In Spain and Portugal, the competent authorities have approved the vaccination of five- to 11-year-olds against Covid-19. This was announced on Tuesday (Dec. 7) by the health ministries in Madrid and Lisbon. This will allow both countries to further increase their vaccination rates, which are very good by European standards. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) had…

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Coronavirus worldwide: Slovakia closes schools but opens stores, Norway tightens measures

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About 267.8 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 5.2 million infected people have died. More than 8.2 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Slovakia’s ruling parties have agreed on a mix of relaxations and tightenings of the valid Corona measures. Stores closed since Nov. 25 will be allowed to reopen starting Friday (Dec. 10). However, those who have neither been vaccinated against nor recovered from Covid-19 will only be allowed to go to stores that sell essential products such…

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Highest number of deaths in Germany since February

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Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Wednesday reported the highest number of Corona deaths in one day since February. 527 more people died in connection with the virus. This brings the total number of reported deaths to 104,047. The RKI also registered 69,601 new infections. That’s 2,415 more cases than a week ago Wednesday, when 67,186 were reported. The seven-day incidence dropped to 427.0 from 432.2 the previous day. The figure indicates how many people per 100,000 population have contracted corona virus in the past seven days. The number of…

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Corona data from Vienna’s hospitals: vaccination works

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The City of Vienna has calculated the occupancy of intensive care units by vaccination status for the Corona Commission. It turns out that it is mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated – and the elderly. The numbers here are not absolute, but relative to the respective population size. For example, about 420,000 people aged 60 or older live in Vienna. Of these, about 175 unvaccinated patients/100,000 people were in normal wards in calendar week 48 (11/29 to 12/5). This adds up to about 735 hospital patients in the last week.…

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Laboratory director: Biontech vaccine offers only partial protection against omicron

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Biontech/Pfizer’s vaccine apparently offers only partial protection against the Omikron variant of the coronavirus. That was announced by laboratory director Alex Sigal of the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa based on preliminary results. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) considers it “highly unlikely” that Omicron could completely undermine vaccine protection. Biontech CEO Ugur Sahin expects reliable data on this on Wednesday or Thursday. He said there was a very large drop in the neutralization of omicron. The neutralization of Omicron had “decreased very much” compared to a previous…

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