The police should be allowed to register at the offices; Vaccination is coming in leaps and bounds

In Lower Austria, nearly 160,000 tests for the corona virus have been carried out on self-service test streets. The stations would be welcome, Health Councilor Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig (SPÖ) said on Tuesday. In Krems, the ninth such facility in the state will go live on Saturday. The location on Strandbadstrasse is meant to ease the system in St. Pölten and shorten travel times.

Smartphone contracts and particularly fast landline internet connections are currently in particularly high demand.

According to the director of the Central Bank, Isabel Schnabel, the European Central Bank (ECB) is considering extending its crisis bond purchase program for twelve months. This is one of the options being examined, he said in an interview with the Bloomberg agency.

The next ECB interest rate meeting is on December 10. Experts hope that the monetary authorities will reopen their money locks in light of the second wave of pandemics. With an extension of the crisis program called PEPP for twelve months, these bond purchases would continue until the end of June 2022.

In Styria, a comparatively large number of men and women, namely 43, died from Covid-19 on Tuesday, according to the communication from the State of Styria. Just the day before, 44 deaths had been reported. As of midnight, a total of 401 new infections were recorded. Currently 11,626 Styrians are actively infected with the coronavirus, 19,351 have recovered. So far, 564 people have died in the Green Mark.

Of the Styrian deceased, 288 were men and 276 women. The oldest victim was born in 1919, the youngest to die was born in 1980.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) wants to evaluate the BioNTech partners’ application for approval for the corona vaccine and before December 29 at the latest
Complete Pfizer.

The decision on the vaccine from the American company Moderna must be made before January 12.

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All tickets booked at AUA prior to February 28 can be rebooked as many times as necessary at no charge before the end of February.

After the end of February, tickets can be rebooked free of charge. The reservation change fee has been suspended since the end of August, this measure, which was previously in force until the end of the year, has now been extended, the airline announced on Tuesday. The flexibility applies to all Group airlines, including Lufthansa, SWISS, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings.

Germany, France and Italy want to keep their slopes closed until January and are campaigning for all ski areas in Europe to be closed. There is support from Belgium.

Switzerland will leave slopes, cable cars and elevators open during the festive period and will rely on protection concepts rather than closures.

The following applies to mountain railways: A mask must be worn when the minimum distance of 1.5 meters cannot be maintained. The mask requirement applies to waiting and queuing areas in front of stations inside and outside of buildings, as well as ski lifts and chair lifts.

Online sales are being promoted; in some places reservation systems for a trip in the mountains are being introduced, such as on the Andermatt-Sedrun ski slope.

There will be no après-ski as in normal winters. In catering establishments, a mask is required; only those who are seated can remove the protection from their mouth and nose. The following applies: Drinks and food can only be consumed sitting down. A maximum of four people can sit at a table.

The former director of the Neunkirchen specialty hospital, Primar Ojan Assadian, will move into the larger house.

SPÖ boss Pamela Rendi-Wagner warns of a hasty lifting of the crown’s measures after the end of the lockdown.

An opening should only be made with “the utmost caution,” he said Tuesday.

Covid-19 was first documented a year ago, in Wuhan. But Beijing claims the epidemic originated elsewhere.

Today the Minister of Labor Christine Aschbacher offered an update on the situation of the labor market. Result: At the end of November, 457,197 people are unemployed or in training. 390,885 people are looking for work, 60,393 are in training.

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Archbishop Franz Lackner sees the massive corona tests as part of the strategy to fight the pandemic and hopes that many people in the Archdiocese of Salzburg and across Austria will participate. “The test is an important contribution that each of us can make, and it is an additional step towards a safe Christmas, when as many as possible are tested now and continue to exercise consideration and responsibility,” said the president of the Episcopal Conference. in front of Kathpress.

The archbishop, who has just undergone a test, was pleased that according to media reports, the pilot test was off to a good start in the state of Salzburg. “Each test can help protect yourself and others, which for me is also an expression of Christian charity,” Lackner said.

Good intentions aren’t always well done, says Austria’s Twitteria, which has been teasing them with enthusiasm since the launch of the platform that will supposedly put Austrian online stores in the spotlight.

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In December an agreement will be reached between the social partners and the Ministry of Labor.

According to German Health Minister Jens Spahn, corona vaccination centers in Germany should be ready for use from mid-December.

The goal is to start vaccinating in January, in risk groups and among employees in the health and care sector, says Spahn on Deutschlandfunk. Starting in spring or early summer, vaccinations should also be done in doctor’s offices. Regarding the current infection situation in Germany, Spahn says the numbers should continue to fall. “There is no doubt about that.”

The crown crisis has led to significantly lower incomes for communities. According to the forecasts of the Center for Administrative Research (KDZ), municipalities without the federal capital Vienna will lack a total of 2.5 billion euros for 2020 and 2021. The funds to cover current expenses were lacking, the secretary general of the Association of Cities, Thomas Weninger, at a press conference. He asked for more help from the federal and state governments.

In Vienna, 665 new coronavirus infections were reported on Tuesday. This stems from published data from the city’s medical crisis team. There were also six deaths in the last 24 hours.

So far, a total of 60,094 coronavirus infections and 623 deaths due to or due to the consequences of Covid-19 have been documented in Vienna. More recently, two women and four men died between the ages of 78 and 95.

Currently, 10,564 people are actively affected by the disease. 48,907 people are healthy again. Yesterday, Monday 7,084 tests were carried out. In Vienna, a total of 837,228 tests have been carried out since the start of the pandemic.

According to the organization of industrial nations OECD, the world economy is stumbling again due to the second corona wave in Western countries.

It will contract by three percent in the current fourth quarter compared to the previous year, according to the forecast published Tuesday. “Europe and North America in particular are currently suffering from the outbreak of the pandemic that has halted the economic recovery,” he says.

In the euro zone, economic output is likely to decline 7.3 percent in the latest quarter and 3.2 percent in the United States. “With the prospect of a vaccine and more successful management of the virus, there is hope again,” said OECD chief economist Laurence Boone.

The Mainz company Biontech and the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have applied to the European Medicines Agency (Ema) for approval of their corona vaccine in the EU. The application for a conditional marketing authorization was submitted on Monday, Biontech and Pfizer announced Tuesday. On Monday, the American company Moderna also submitted the corresponding request for its vaccine to Ema.

Ema now has to check the apps. Initially, it was unclear how long this would take.