Vienna Opera Ball 2021 is canceled; One in five infected people has no symptoms

The Vienna Opera Ball will not be held due to the corona pandemic in 2021. Due to the contagion situation, the government will decide to cancel at the Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday THAN of the Chancellery. “This decision was not easy for us,” said Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), but it would be “irresponsible to hold the ball in the usual way”.

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The National Council will decide on the next Corona package on Wednesday at its first regular meeting after summer break. Among other things, it clarifies when a lockdown can occur and how far curfews can go.

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Clamor from the dance school operators: According to new Corona regulations, only five dance partners can be in a room.

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The crown crisis has catapulted society into the digital future in a few weeks, says Microsoft Austria chief Dorothee Ritz. “Companies in Austria and around the world have made rapid progress in their digital transformation thanks to Covid-19.” The future must be shaped by current experience. Digital technologies would contribute to resilience to crises, said the executive on the occasion of the Microsoft “Ignite” 2020 conference.

Microsoft “Ignite” is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals. This year, due to the pandemic, it is being organized digitally and will run until Thursday of the current week. Virtually all major Microsoft events will run through 2021.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin on Wednesday declared the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Germany at 275,927, an increase of 1,769 from the previous day. Johns Hopkins University (JHU), based in the US city of Baltimore, reported 277,412 infected people.

The RKI, which only takes into account the figures transmitted electronically from the federal states and updates its list once a day, recorded 9,409 deaths, 13 more than the previous day. The JHU counted 9,405 dead. According to the RKI, the number of people recovered was around 245,400.

At this point, today we will inform you again about the latest developments in the corona pandemic. Good start on Wednesday!

The trio left the stadium before the third-round league cup match against Hull City and went into quarantine at home.

According to a hospital in Mexico, a lung transplant in a Covid 19 patient was successful. According to a statement on Tuesday, the 55-year-old man had already been operated on for seven hours on August 31 at the private Cristo Muguerza hospital in the city of Monterrey. He had previously been artificially ventilated for 52 days after falling ill in June.

“Without the transplant, the patient’s life expectancy was zero,” surgeon Manuel Wong Jaén was quoted as saying. The man is on the way to recovery. You will have a practically normal quality of life.

According to the clinic, the operation is said to be the first successful lung transplant in a Covid-19 patient in Latin America. In May, the first lung transplant of a Covid patient in Europe was successful in Vienna. This has already happened in the United States.

Today, Wednesday, the consumer protection association (VSV) will present the first official liability lawsuits of ski tourists from Austria, Germany and Switzerland against the Republic of Austria and the state of Tyrol. Tourists became infected with Covid-19 during their skiing holidays in Tyrol, especially in Ischgl, and they carried the virus around the world. The SAAM will announce the details of the model claims for damages for Covid victims at a press conference in Vienna.

More than 6,000 tourists in Tyrol have already reported the consumer protection association as victims. Many of them come from Germany. According to Kolba’s account, those responsible reacted too late and not enough to the coronavirus outbreak in Ischgl. The Corona virus was transmitted in 45 countries from the Tyrolean winter sports station.

France again has more than 10,000 new infections. According to the Health Ministry, 10,008 corona cases were added within 24 hours to just 5,298 the day before. In twelve days, the number of new infections surpassed the 10,000 mark six times. A total of 468,069 people were infected with the corona virus. The number of deaths increased to 31,416.

Infected people who have been tested without symptoms may still develop symptoms later – we speak of presymptomatic patients.

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After two classes at Villach Commercial Academy and Villach Peraugymnasium were blocked due to corona cases, the 154 affected students were tested.

As the state of Carinthia announced on Tuesday evening, the test results are all negative. It was not initially clear if classes would reopen.

In Tyrol, the number of people infected with corona has dropped dramatically: as of Tuesday night, 517 people were actively ill, 138 fewer than on Monday night. 52 positive test results were added, while another 190 people were considered cured. The situation in the hospitals also remained stable, as it has been for several months.

The decrease in infected people was also extremely significant in Innsbruck, the capital of the “orange” state: if 285 people infected with Covid were counted there on Monday night, 24 hours later there were only 173. The district of Kufstein, which is also changed to “orange”, only had 43 Crown-Drop on. So far, 5,056 people in the state have recovered.

The situation in hospitals was also positive: 18 corona patients were treated in normal wards, only three required intensive medical care.

In Burgenland, there have been 14 new coronavirus infections since Monday, the Coronavirus coordination team announced Tuesday. Twelve people recovered in the same period. Currently 118 active cases of Covid-19 are reported. The number of those who have recovered amounts to a total of 555. The total number of confirmed cases is 684.

518 people, eleven more than on Monday, are currently under officially ordered home quarantine in Burgenland. Nine people with Covid-19 are receiving hospital treatment.

The French head of state, Emmanuel Macron, refuses to isolate the elderly. “We will not defeat the virus by isolating our fellow citizens,” the president said Tuesday during a short visit to a retirement home in the Loire region of central France, near Blois. The 42-year-old pointed out the social and family ties that are important to older people.

There is great concern in France that the number of new corona infections has been rising for weeks – the 10,000 daily mark has already been passed. Authorities have already registered more than 31,000 deaths.

In the United States, the number of deaths per corona has exceeded the symbolic threshold of 200,000. The mark was surpassed on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Thus, the US accounts for about one in five deaths worldwide, and about 6.86 million cases of infection have been confirmed in the country since the pandemic began; this is also an international record.

Italian health authorities recorded a slight increase in coronavirus infections on Tuesday. 1,392 new cases were registered in more than 87,000 tests in 24 hours, compared to 1,350 the day before. Additionally, 15 deaths were reported, compared to 17 on Monday, bringing the death toll since the epidemic began in February to 35,738.

The special EU summit scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week will be postponed until October 1-2. This was announced by a spokesman for the President of the EU Council, Charles Michel, on Twitter on Tuesday.

A security officer Michel was in close contact with last week tested positive for the corona virus. Michel tested negative yesterday, Monday. However, according to Belgian rules, he must be in quarantine as of Tuesday, the spokesman said.

There is a lot of confusion around the rules surrounding self-isolation. You hear over and over again from people who have to stay home for 20 days. In reality, this can happen in certain unfortunate circumstances. The KURIER answers important questions about the applicable quarantine regulations.

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The mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig (SPÖ), spoke out clearly against moving the curfew to 10 pm as in Tirol, Vorarlberg and Salzburg. In this case, he fears an increase in illegal parties because people would continue to party elsewhere.