Austria now has high risk of infection

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The Corona traffic light is switched to “orange” for Austria. That means there is “high risk.” This emerges from the working document of the traffic light commission, which is adopted by circular resolution. In individual states, there is still talk of medium risk, i.e. yellow, namely in Carinthia, Lower Austria, Styria and Tyrol. Burgenland moved into the orange range for the first time. As far as the risk-adjusted 7-day incidence is concerned, Salzburg currently has the worst value at around 188. The system risk at the intensive care units is…

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3rd CoV vaccination now bookable for all

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Since Thursday, all Lower Austrians can book an appointment for the CoV booster vaccination. Previously, only people in nursing homes received the third prick. However, the booster is not yet for everyone. Last week, the booster vaccinations began to be administered in Lower Austria. So far, about 3,000 residents of seven nursing homes received the third prick. On Thursday, registration on the platform www.impfung.at was unlocked for everyone – with different recommendations from the National Vaccination Panel depending on age, pre-existing conditions and vaccines. People over age 65, at-risk patients…

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95.3 percent in intensive care units in Vienna unvaccinated

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The tightened CoV measures are based on the utilization of intensive care beds. Experts emphasize that vaccination can prevent serious illness. In intensive care units in Vienna, 95.3 percent are currently unvaccinated. Age of patients in intensive care units decreasesNot only in Vienna, where almost two thirds of the Covid 19 patients requiring intensive care are under 60 years of age and four are even younger than 30 (cut-off date: September 7), the average age of coronavirus patients requiring an intensive care bed is falling. This is shown by a…

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Coronavirus worldwide: only one in 5000 vaccinated people contract covid-19, at least ten dead after fire in northern Macedonian hospital

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More than 222 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Only about one in 5,000 has contracted the coronavirus despite being vaccinated twice. That’s according to new data from America. As the “New York Times” writes, detailed figures from the American states of Utah, Virginia and King County were examined. In regions, which are less strongly affected by Corona, the risk sinks even again and would…

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New Corona measures: These are the rules for Vienna

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Vienna’s special approach to corona measures continues to create different rules in the federal capital. Here is an overview of which masks and tests are valid where and for whom. Vienna takes stricter course with Corona rulesAt the beginning of the summer, Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) once again – after already imposing a lockdown at Easter – adopted a more restrictive course in terms of covid prevention. This is possible because the federal states can tighten up their regulations. The measures are valid by decree until the end of…

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Thursday: More than 2,300 new infections in Austria

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Yesterday, for the first time since the end of April, more than 2,000 new infections were reported within 24 hours – just on the day when the government presented its new plan to contain the pandemic. In the future, politicians will no longer be guided by infection figures, but will look at intensive care bed utilization. For the first time, Austria will now differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals when setting measures. details here Infection numbers continue to rise today: from yesterday, Wednesday, to today, Thursday, 2,356 new Corona infections…

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New Corona rules: “There will be a fourth wave, a fifth, and a sixth”

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Federal and state governments are tightening the measures. A phased plan will apply, based on ICU utilization. There is to be no more lockdown for vaccinated citizens. This has already announced Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday evening in the ORF summer talk. Instead, there will be tough measures only for the unvaccinated – to protect them and the health system from being overburdened. For example, there will be a FFP2 mask obligation for unvaccinated in the trade. After a meeting with the state governors, the federal government today, Wednesday, presented…

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Chile to vaccinate children six and older against coronavirus

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In Chile, children as young as six years old are to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the future. On Monday next week, the vaccination campaign for children between the ages of six and eleven will begin, Health Minister Enrique Paris said Wednesday during a visit to the city of Arica in the north of the country. The children are to be vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.Earlier this week, the Public Health Institute had granted the vaccine emergency approval for children six years and…

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AstraZeneca vaccine: list of “very rare” side effects supplemented

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has added Guillain-Barre syndrome to the list of “very rare” adverse reactions to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine. The likelihood that there is a causal relationship between vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine and the occurrence of the nerve disease is “at least reasonable,” according to a statement issued by the EMA yesterday. The likelihood of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome after AstraZeneca vaccination is very low, the EMA stressed. Fewer than one in 10,000 people are affected, it said. By the end of July, 833 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome…

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