1,735 new corona infections in 24 hours in Austria

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Coronavirus new infections in Austria continue to rise. On Wednesday, the Interior and Health Ministries reported 1,735 new cases. On average, 1,473 people thus became infected with SARS-CoV-2 every day last week. In addition, 30 more deaths have been registered since Tuesday. Thus, 8,290 people across Austria have already died from or with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. More patients also require intensive medical care. The last time there were this many new infections in Austria was just under four weeks ago. 2,088 were reported on January 22, followed by…

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Ash Wednesday in the Corona mode

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The Corona pandemic also has an impact on the liturgy on Ash Wednesday, with which Lent begins in the Catholic Church: so this year the ash rite is administered “without the usual Ash Wednesday prayer and without touching”, as determined by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship worldwide. This year, therefore, the faithful will not receive an ash cross on the forehead, but the ashes will be scattered on the head. “This form, which is common in other countries, reminds us in a very sober, realistic and obvious way of…

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City pays 400 euro bonus for nursing training

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Nursing training instead of unemployment: with this approach, the city wants to combat the glaring shortage of nurses on the one hand and the high unemployment rate on the other. The city is therefore now paying 4,100 unemployed Viennese a 400-euro bonus per month for training – in addition to unemployment benefits. By 2030, Vienna will need 9100 additional nurses. This is the result of a study by the umbrella organization of Viennese social institutions. On the other hand, 154,688 people in the capital did not have a job in…

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Vienna starts with vaccination of high-risk group

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In the federal capital of Vienna, Corona vaccination of seniors over 80 years of age, the high-risk group, persons with disabilities and employees or workers in high-exposure areas (for example, Covid-19 laboratories) will begin today (Wednesday), the office of Health City Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) told APA. The injections are thereby mainly placed in two new Corona vaccination centers, which go into operation today. These are located at Gasgasse 7 -9 in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and at Schrödingerplatz in Donaustadt. In the coming weeks – depending on the quantities of vaccine delivered…

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Johnson & Johnson applies for EU approval

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U.S. pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has applied for approval of its coronavirus vaccine in the European Union (EU). The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) said Tuesday it has received an application for “conditional marketing authorization” from Johnson & Johnson’s European subsidiary. So far, vaccines from Biontech/Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have been approved in the EU. Johnson & Johnson had already filed for emergency approval of its vaccine in the U.S. nearly two weeks ago. If the company manages to secure approval, experts say it will significantly simplify the vaccination…

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New corona cases down 16 percent worldwide last week

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The number of new Corona infections reported worldwide dropped 16 percent last week to 2.7 million. The number of reported deaths also fell within a week, by 10 percent to 81,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday evening in Geneva, based on Sunday’s figures. Five of six WHO regions saw double-digit percentage declines in new corona cases, with only the eastern Mediterranean seeing a seven percent increase. In Africa and the Western Pacific, the number of cases decreased by 20 percent last week, in Europe by 18 percent, in…

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Around 109 million people worldwide confirmed infected, Curfew in the Netherlands must be lifted

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More than 109.08 million people worldwide have been confirmed to be infected with coronavirus. More than 2.5 million people died in connection with the virus. That’s according to a Reuters count based on official data. The U.S. is by far the country most affected by the pandemic, with nearly 27.8 million people infected and more than 487,000 dead. India has more than 10.9 million known cases of infection and more than 155,700 deaths. Brazil has recorded over 9.8 million infected and nearly 240,000 deaths. Curfew in the Netherlands must be…

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Over 1400 new infections in the past 24 hours

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The number of new infections with SARS-CoV-2 in Austria continues to rise. Since Monday, 1427 new cases have been recorded. On average, 1435 new infected people were thus added every day last week. This is also reflected in the number of hospitalized patients: on Tuesday, 38 more patients had to be treated in hospital than on Monday. For the first time since the end of January, more than 10,000 new cases were recorded within seven days. The last time the weekly average was above this mark was on January 28,…

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Iceland returns to normality

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Visits to the swimming pool and gym, meeting friends for a beer – what people in Austria, as in many European countries, can currently only dream of, is once again a reality in Iceland. Together with the Vatican, the country in the far north has the lowest incidence rate in Europe. In the past three weeks, the non-EU country of Iceland was the only European country that the EU’s disease control agency ECDC listed in the “green” category. That means, according to ECDC, there is no need for EU countries…

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