2,835 new infections in Austria; If Corona leaves: will the mask stay?

Most Austrians believe that masks will be used in everyday life even after Corona.

In the face of new highs in new corona infections, France appears to face a new lockdown: Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said before a cabinet crisis meeting on Tuesday that “tough decisions” are inevitable.

A significant expansion of the night curfew or a temporary closure is under discussion.

The chairman of the government’s Corona Advisory Council, Jean-François Delfraissy, said scientists were “shocked by the brutality of the events of the past ten days.” The curfew between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. has been in effect since October 17 and has now been extended to 46 million citizens. It affects more than two thirds of the population.

“The Austrian-Bavarian border region has grown together for decades,” emphasize August Wöginger, chairman of the Schärdinger ÖVP district party, the member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and mayor of Eggerdingen, Johann Hingsamer, and the member of the state parliament of Upper Austria, Barbara Tausch.

“The borders must be passable without obstacles”, Wöginger called to the Bavarian government.

According to current research, air pollution increases the risk of death from Covid-19. An analysis of the Coronavirus in 2003 (SARS-CoV-1) and preliminary investigations for SARS-CoV-2, Mainz scientists reported in the trade journal on Tuesday Cardiovascular research. They estimate that air pollution has so far contributed about 15 percent to global mortality from Covid-19. In Central Europe the value is higher than 25 percent, in Austria it is 26 percent.

“We estimate the proportion of Covid-19 mortality that can be attributed to long-term exposure to fine dust in the area,” explained the researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. Pollution of the environment with fine dust in the form of PM2.5 (particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers) was characterized using satellite data and then mortality values ​​were calculated using an atmospheric chemistry model.

An employee of the Fabios restaurant in Vienna tested positive for the corona virus as part of a routine weekly check. The Italian noble is now closed until November 4.

The number of overnight stays in Austria also plummeted in September: 14.1 percent to 9.84 million. Overnight stays by foreign guests were down 26.2 percent, the trend towards “home vacations” dampened this somewhat.

With guests from Austria there was an increase in overnight stays of 13.9 percent, as Statistics Austria announced in a broadcast on Tuesday.

After an unannounced rally against measures to combat the coronavirus on Monday afternoon in St. Pölten, investigations continue. It’s about investigating those responsible, police spokesman Johann Baumschlager said on request. About 150 people gathered in the town hall square of the state capital.

Baumschlager confirmed a report from ORF Niederösterreich, according to which the participants eventually left the meeting voluntarily. Therefore, an official dissolution was not necessary. The person responsible for the rally should expect a complaint for violations of the assembly law.

The risk costs for Corona and the expenses for the bankruptcy of Commerzialbank depress the result.

In France, more than 26,000 people contracted the coronavirus in one day. The health authority reported 26,771 new infections in the 24 hours of Monday night. That was significantly less than Sunday, when a new record was recorded with more than 52,000 infection cases, but still more than a week ago.

France is one of the countries in Europe most affected by the corona pandemic. In the last few weeks, the number of infections has increased considerably again.

Export expectations of German companies deteriorated in October. The manufacturing industry indicator was 3.7 points lower than the previous month at 6.6 points, as announced on Tuesday by the Munich Ifo Institute in Munich.

The reason for the growing concerns is the increasing number of corona infections. In September a peak was reached since 2018.

The district administrator sees the proximity to Austria as one of the reasons for the huge increase in the number of Edtstadlers in Munich.

Protests against restrictive measures against the coronavirus broke out in some Italian cities on Monday night. Ten people were arrested in Turin for vandalizing and looting shop windows in the city center. Masked protesters threw firecrackers and other objects at the police, and security forces responded with tear gas. A journalist was injured.

In Milan, the headquarters of the Lombardy region was thrown with stones, bottles and sausages. A police officer was injured and two protesters were arrested, Italian media reported.

Health Minister Rudolf Anschober rejects Styrian Governor Hermann Schützenhöfer’s request for crown controls in the private sector. The Covid Measures Act excludes controls in private housing areas, and that is also “fundamentally correct,” Anschober said on Ö1 “Morgenjournal”. He believed that “the vast majority of people are capable of following clear recommendations.”

He also expressed criticism of the statements made by the AGES infectologist Franz Allerberger. More here:

Styrian Governor Hermann Schützenhöfer (ÖVP) wants to seek a constitutionally viable way to intervene in the private sector in case of violations of Crown rules. “For certain cases, for certain moments”. Schützenhöfer also speaks out against the demands of his fellow party members to shorten the quarantine of K1’s contacts.

At least five corona infections temporarily paralyze the United Nations headquarters in New York. Because employees of a member state tested positive for the virus, all personal meetings of various committees at the site on the East River were canceled for Tuesday. This stems from an internal letter from the president of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, on Monday.

The meetings will be suspended until contact tracing is complete, he said. According to diplomatic circles, this is an outbreak in Niger’s representation at the UN.

In view of the increasing number of corona infections, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned against overloading intensive care units, especially in Europe and North America. “Many countries in the Northern Hemisphere are currently seeing a worrying increase in cases and hospitalizations,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva on Monday.

Tedros expressed his understanding that many people experience a certain “pandemic fatigue.” More here:

British music legend Phil Collins (69) wants to ban US President Donald Trump from using his hit song “In The Air Tonight” in the election campaign. Back in June and again last Friday, Collins’ attorneys sent Trump’s election campaign team a cease and desist statement, management said.

In the context of the transmission of the coronavirus, it is also “extremely insensitive” to use a song with this text. Translated, the chorus line reads, “I can feel it’s in the air tonight, oh Lord.”

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Europe’s largest tourism group, TUI, is creating an alternative to the home office at home during the crown crisis: in the Robinson premium brand clubs, currently low-demand family rooms are becoming places work-from-home with a desk, office chair and high-speed Internet, the company said.

“The first reservations have already been made,” Robinson Club manager Bernd Mäser told the newspapers. Funke Media Group.