Austrian experts and specialists recommend general lockdown without exception

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“The population is no longer sufficiently supportive of the measures,” said Oswald Wagner, vice rector for clinical affairs at Med Uni Vienna, in a panel of experts on the coronavirus situation in Austria on Saturday. What the specialists recommend to the federal government: “General lockdown without exception.” This would have to apply until the 7-day incidence, i.e. the cases per 100,000 inhabitants, would fall below 50. Only then could there be a gradual opening at all, according to Wagner’s personal opinion. He also believes that the home office should become…

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Getting to know the two vaccines Pfizer/Biontech and Moderna

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The European Union approved Pfizer/Biontech’s first Corona vaccine in December, and Moderna has now also been given the green light in early January. What is the difference between the two vaccines? Do they have anything in common? And what about tolerability and side effects? Here is all the information we have on this: Both vaccines work by means of mRNA technology. This has been researched for more than ten years, and is now achieving its first global breakthrough with the development of the Corona vaccine. StorageThere is a significant difference…

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More than 18,000 new infections in Germany

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More than 18,000 people in Germany have been infected with the corona virus within 24 hours. Health offices reported 18,678 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours, the RKI announced early Saturday. This brought the number of known cases since the start of the pandemic to 2,019,636 (as of January 16, 00:00). Just the day before, 22,368 new infections had been reported. It should be noted that the actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected. In addition,…

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There is a big chance of meeting infected people in Vienna

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294 new infections have been registered in the federal capital since the previous day. At the same time, there have been 21 deaths. As of Thursday, January 15, 2021, 77,843 positive tests have been confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Vienna Regional Health Directorate and the Medical Crisis Staff in Vienna. In the past 24 hours, 294 new infections were again added – a worrying peak value among the provinces as the overview shows. The number of deaths linked to the virus now stands at 1,269,…

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WhatsApp postpones introduction of new privacy rules

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WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of its new privacy rules by just over three months after criticism and an exodus of users. Previously, users were supposed to agree to the new terms by Feb. 8 if they wanted to continue using the chat service, which is owned by Facebook. Now the new privacy policy should only apply from May 15, as WhatsApp announced on Friday. According to WhatsApp, the changes are primarily about creating better opportunities for communication with companies. The end-to-end encryption, with which chat content is only visible…

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7 questions and answers about the e-vaccination passport

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Now the e-vaccination passport is to replace the current paper vaccination passport nationwide by the end of March. The basis for this is a central, national vaccination register in which all vaccination data is stored. The website futurezone.at has summarized the most important information below: What can the e-vaccination certificate do? As with the classic paper vaccination card, the e-vaccination card will in future record all vaccinations that a person has received. This also applies to the Corona vaccination, which consists of two partial vaccinations. In the first stage, individuals…

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Government to decide on Corona lockdown

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After a marathon of talks, the government will decide this weekend on how to proceed with the Corona pandemic. In view of the new virus mutation, there is no longer any thought of easing the lockdown; Carinthia’s Governor Peter Kaiser (SPÖ) expected the lockdown to be extended “well into February” after a meeting of the provinces with the Chancellor. The government is still consulting with experts and social partners on Saturday, and a decision is expected on Sunday. After recently also in Austria more and more suspected cases of the…

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Already more than two million dead worldwide

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than two million people have already died worldwide after infection with the coronavirus. This was revealed today by data from the University of Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Worldwide, there have been more than 93 million confirmed infections with the virus. Experts assume that the number of unreported cases is even higher. The university’s website is regularly updated with incoming data and therefore shows a higher level than the official figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). In some cases, however, the numbers have…

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About 100 suspected cases in Austria of new virus variant

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In Austria, about 100 suspected cases of the new British coronavirus variant B 1.1.7. have been registered so far. “These are more or less distributed throughout Austria,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said Friday at a press conference in Vienna. These will be sequenced to obtain final certainty. The department head expects the final results by the middle of next week. “But I would be surprised if we had many negative results.” If fully spread, the mutation is 50 percent more infectious than the previously dominant viral variant, according to current…

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