Traffic light: four red districts; The Chinese vaccine works

The Styrian State Medical Directorate reported two more deaths in connection with the coronavirus on Friday. Two men, an 80-year-old man from the Graz-Umgebung district and a 96-year-old man from the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district, died with or from Covid-19. Styria now has 186 kills per crown. 97 of the deceased from Styria were women and 89 men. The oldest victim was born in 1919, the youngest to die was born in 1980.

Opinion researcher Peter Hajek asked 806 Austrians on behalf of ATV whether they would agree or reject a second shutdown in the fall.

70 percent said a second lockdown in the fall would be pointless. 20 percent would consider a fall restriction the right decision. Eleven percent abstained from commenting or said “I don’t know.” The exact results can be found here:

The inflation rate rose slightly to 1.5 percent in September. The main price drivers continued to be housing, water and energy, followed by restaurants. Without price increases in these areas, the inflation rate in September would have been just 0.6 percent, Austria Statistics Director General Tobias Thomas said on Friday. Measures to contain the corona pandemic, on the other hand, only influenced inflation “to a very small extent.”

The World Health Organization has not yet published the study and does not want to confirm a journalistic report.

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The candidate vaccine has triggered antibody production in human trials and has had no side effects so far. “BBIBP-CorV” was developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products.

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New Zealanders from the Corona-free parts of the country can again travel without quarantine to neighboring Australia. An Auckland plane with 200 passengers on board landed in Sydney on Friday. It is the first time since the end of March that international guests do not have to be in corona isolation for 14 days. The prerequisite is that visitors have not been to a Covid 19 hotspot in their home country in the previous two weeks.

Two more flights should land later in the day. In Australia, New Zealanders can now visit the Australian states of New South Wales with the metropolis of Sydney and the seaside resort of Byron Bay and the Northern Territory with Mount Uluru (Ayers Rock). Other regions are still blocked.

For the labor market, it is extremely important that the corona virus is contained, said the Minister of Labor.

According to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO), the drug Remdesivir from the US company Gilead Sciences does not have a substantial influence on the cure of Covid-19 patients, reported the Financial times.

This is the result of a clinical study. The WHO declined to comment on the report, noting that the results of the study were not yet public. Among other things, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had been treated with remdesivir.

The number of new corona infections and economic development are critical to the job market and associated federal spending. “We have to contain the virus,” Labor Minister Christine Aschbacher said in an interview with the APA.

“Because every travel warning that comes up hurts us financially.” However, the labor market will need years before it fully recovers from the crown crisis, Aschbacher said.

New infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days

• Czech Republic: 411.0
• Belgium: 378.2
• Netherlands. 271.8
• France: 194.6
• UK: 163.6
• Spain: 154.4
• Slovakia: 139.4
• Slovenia: 135.6
• Switzerland: 128.0
• Austria: 87.4
• Hungary: 79.2
• Switzerland: 64.2
• Sweden: 46.4
• Germany: 39.9
• Norway: 17.5

Good news at least for Ikea Austria.

Swedish furniture chain Ikea managed to increase sales in Austria in the last financial year despite the closing of the crown, but sales declined worldwide. Gross sales in Austria grew in fiscal 2019/20 (end of August) by 5.5 percent to € 847.3 million, of which € 124 million was attributable to the online business.

Ikea had to keep its eight locations in Austria closed from mid-March to early May due to the crown lockdown. However, once the ban ended, a large number of customers made pilgrimages to the branches. “The week after the shutdown, in early May, was the best in Austria,” Ikea Austria manager Alpaslan Deliloglu said in a broadcast. The loss of sales was more than offset during the crown-related shutdown in the period from early May to late August.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), German health authorities reported 7,334 new corona infections in one day on Friday morning. The previous day, with 6,638 new cases, the highest value since the start of the pandemic had been registered in Germany. Last week, the RKI reported 4,516 new infections on Friday.

The current values ​​are only partially comparable to those of the spring, because many more tests are now being carried out and therefore more infections are being discovered.

There is a clear increase in Covid 19 patients treated in intensive care in Germany. According to the RKI situation report, 655 corona-infected people were cared for in intensive care on Thursday, 329 of whom were ventilated. A week before (October 8) the value was 487 (239 ventilated), in the previous week (October 1) it was 362 (193 ventilated).

In the third quarter, China is heading towards a consolidation of the economic recovery after the impact of the crown.

The reasons for this are the recurring desire to purchase by consumers and the resumption of business activities by business partners. According to a Reuters poll released on Friday, growth of 5.2 percent is expected for the July-September period compared to the previous year.

In the second quarter, the world’s second-largest economy grew just 3.2 percent.

All European countries are doing the same with the corona pandemic, the chancellor said. EU countries now want to work more closely.

Upper Austria is likely on the verge of introducing mandatory guest registration in the restaurant industry. Governor Thomas Stelzer and LHStv. Christine Haberlander discussed this with the experts yesterday and wants to announce the decision today.

Coalition partner FPÖ is against the gastronomic registration obligation. There is also likely to be an expansion of protection measures in nursing homes and nursing homes.

In view of the dramatic increase in the number of infections in Europe, the EU heads of state and government have agreed to cooperate more intensively in the fight against pandemics.

In a statement after the first day of the EU summit in Brussels, they spoke out on Friday evening for better coordination of quarantine regulations, cross-border contact tracing, as well as testing strategies, vaccination capabilities and restrictions of travel.

This year the traditional costume event “dahoam” is held because of the crown. The live show can be seen on Saturday.

Good morning from the newsroom. We wish you a good start to the day.

At this point, as usual, news about the Corona crisis. We start in neighboring Germany: again there are a high number of new infections. 7,334 new infections were reported in one day. The previous day, with 6,638 new cases, the highest value since the start of the pandemic had been registered in Germany.

Last week, the RKI reported 4,516 new infections on Friday.

In Switzerland, a yodel event triggered a massive increase in new corona infections. At the end of September about 600 people participated in the canton of Schwyz. They were called to keep their distance; however, a protective mask was not required. The canton is now one of the hotspots in Europe with more than 1,230 coronavirus cases.

“We discovered nine days after the performance that several people in the group were infected,” organizer Beat Hegner told the public broadcaster. RTS. On Wednesday alone, 94 people tested positive, double the number the day before.