New Vienna parking sticker and digital driver’s license from 2022

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The year 2022 will also bring changes in mobility: For example, the digital driver’s license will be introduced. As of March 1, 2022, the parking sticker and short-stay parking zone in Vienna will be extended to the entire city. The period of validity and duration will be standardized – also in the existing short-stay parking zones – to two hours from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 22:00. Area-wide parking sticker in Vienna from March 1, 2022From March 1, parking in Vienna will only be permitted with a parking permit…

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WHO warns against classifying Omicron variant as ‘mild’.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against classifying the Omicron variant of the coronavirus as “mild.” “Just like previous variants, people have to go to hospital because of Omicron, and it kills people,” WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said yesterday in Geneva. Even though Omicron appears to lead to less severe disease than the previously prevalent Delta variant, the variant should not be classified as “mild,” he said. The wave of new infections caused by the Omicron variant is “so huge and so fast” that it is leading to…

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Philippines: Arrest of unvaccinated lockdown refusers

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of people who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus and are violating the curfew in place in the country. Those who refuse to stay at home in violation of the instructions could be arrested, Duterte said today. The CoV pandemic, he said, is a “national emergency” that justifies such action. In light of the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the government had decided earlier this week that in the capital Manila and several other cities, unvaccinated people would only be…

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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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