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In our Corona ticker you will find the national developments on the corona pandemic. General questions: Information hotline 0800 555 621. If infection is suspected: 1450. We notify you here every day until 2:00 pm.
Current numbers:
AGES Dashboard: * 325,511 laboratory confirmed cases; 94,293 active cases; Recovered cases 226,567; Tests 3,425,072 (Austria period 02/27/2020 to 12/15/2020 00:00:00).
The most important corona news at a glance:
- Of From Tuesday to Wednesday there were 2,664 new infections in Austria Recorded. In the same period came 116 more deaths were added. This means that in Austria as a whole 4,764 people since the beginning of the pandemic with or on the corona virus passed away.
- In Austria the Wednesday 548 Corona patients intensive medical care and they were in intensive care units.
- Starts in Austria School year again on January 11 after students and teachers have tested Has been.
- In Germany were 952 deaths reported in relation to the corona virus. That’s a new high.
- [b]The approval authority shall decide on the approval of the Corona vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer in Europe.
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Current figures on the corona virus
So far there have been 330,343 positive results in Austria. As of today (December 16, 2020, 9:30 a.m.), 4,764 people in Austria have died from the consequences of the corona virus and 291,042 have recovered. Currently 3,410 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus and 548 of them are in intensive care units.
New infections since the last report are distributed among the Austrian federal states as follows:
- Burgenland: 47
- Carinthia: 289
- Lower Austria: 468
- Upper Austria: 543
- Salzburg: 196
- Steiermark: 460
- Tyrol: 210
- Vorarlberg: 116
- Vienna: 335
Auer: First vaccines in Vienna and Lower Austria
The first corona vaccines will take place this year in Vienna and parts of Lower Austria. “I look forward to 10,000 doses on the 23rd, 24th or, because of the holidays, sometime on the 28th (December note). And we will vaccinate them immediately,” said Clemens-Martin Auer, special representative for health, Wednesday. in the “Ö1 Morgenjournal”.
According to this, vaccination should start in some selected nursing homes in Vienna and Lower Austria. There are logistical reasons for this. However, 230,000 more doses of vaccine will be delivered throughout Austria in January. These should then be distributed to nursing homes and given to residents and staff.
Auer: All vaccinated in summer
Auer is convinced that anyone who wants to can get vaccinated before summer. With the vaccines from Astra Zeneca, Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna, there are three preparations available and more to come. “And then we will have enough vaccinations to ensure that everyone who wants to be vaccinated will be vaccinated well into the summer,” says Auer.
Women’s organizations warn of a social pandemic
The president of the women’s network, Klaudia Frieben, warned at a press conference on Wednesday that the corona pandemic could turn into a “social pandemic” for women. Unemployment, short-term work and the multiple burdens of closed schools would shape the lives of women today. It especially affects single parents. These were forgotten by politics, criticized Frieben.
Burgenland: Doskozil wants a complete lockout
Burgenland Governor Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ) called on Wednesday for a complete closure for all of Austria: “An end to this salami tactic. We have to close everything now! Shops, schools, restaurants, ski lifts.” The extension of the Christmas holidays should also create a “really secure base”, so Doskozil in the free newspaper “Heute”.
By 2021 Doskozil can, in any case, envisage a “free trial” for visits to taverns, weddings or thermal spa holidays: “A kind of ‘schnitzel certificate’ is less restrictive than permanent closures due to disastrous figures,” he said the governor.
The governor criticized the current relaxation, including the opening of stores, “kneeling before the economy” for the Christmas business. In the “Presse” he criticized the “zigzag course” of the turquoise green federal government. You risk a third wave by the end of January at the latest.
Governor Doskozil Announces Massive New Tests
Anschober expects first vaccination before New Year’s Eve
Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) hopes that “we can vaccinate the first in Austria before New Year’s Eve”, reports “Today”. After approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), 9,750 doses would initially be delivered to all EU member states, according to the Ministry of Health. They must then follow the contractually agreed amounts. An exact delivery date has not yet been set, according to Anschober.
PK: “Help for learning during Christmas, semester holidays and the time in between”
At a press conference, Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP), Diakonie Director Maria Katharina Moser, and Caritas Secretary General Anna Parr reported on the topic “Help for learning during Christmas, holidays semester and intermediate time “.
Faßmann announces learning platform
Faßmann wants to help close the “learning gaps” for students who do not have optimal learning conditions at home. Therefore, laptops and tutorials should be offered on the weiterlernen.at platform. Older schoolchildren, students, and retired teaching staff need to support learning there. The remuneration “is not princely”, but increases with the qualifications of the teachers. The Federal Ministry finances the project with one million euros. Learning support itself is free.
Faßmann: “not a one-time event”
Learning support can be done alone or in small groups. There is a distribution mechanism for this. 18 lessons in groups of three and six individual lessons. This should be worn during winter break, Faßmann says. During these two weeks it is expected that around 7,000 schoolchildren will benefit from the project. But that should not remain “a one-time event”. However, that also depends on financing. “There is also something like sunshine in these gray times,” Faßmann praises the project.
Fassmann announces teaching materials for the Christmas holidays
Faßmann: The mask requirement in class is still even longer
Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) does not expect the mask requirement to be lifted in class during the winter semester. “The way I have observed the course of the pandemic so far, it would be an optimistic view,” he said in the morning newspaper Ö1.
A prerequisite for removing the mask requirement would be a significant decrease in the number of infections or a general relaxation of the risk situation, for example by vaccinations. However, it takes some time before vaccination protects vulnerable groups. “It is difficult to predict whether it will be February or March.”
Christmas in the time of Corona – This is the vote in Tyrol
UK vaccination program costs £ 12bn
According to the Court of Auditors, vaccinating the British population against the corona virus costs the government up to twelve billion pounds (13.26 billion euros). This amount is necessary to pay for, manufacture and deliver the vaccines, according to the report from the supervisory authority. However, the costs could continue to rise.
Video: Medical communication with opponents of the vaccine.
In an instructional video from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Dr. Philipp Schmid from the University of Erfurt how medical communication with vaccine opponents can be successful.
Epidemiologist criticizes the protection of risk groups
Austria is currently unable to adequately protect Covid 19 risk groups in nursing homes and nursing homes from infections, criticized epidemiologist Gerald Gartlehner. Therefore, it proposes, with the support of the armed forces, to test visitors and employees of said facilities more specifically and periodically, reports the APA. The case numbers are “alarmingly high” given the closure that just ended.
Tough lockdown in Germany begins with new record for crown deaths
In neighboring Germany, the harsh lockdown began on Wednesday. Due to the rapid increase in the number of corona, they agreed on a package of measures to combat the pandemic.
For the first time more than 950 deaths in Germany
The Robert Koch Institute in Germany confirmed 27,728 new corona infections in one day on Wednesday. In the same period, another 952 people died from the corona virus. The seven-day incidence in Germany increases from 173.7 to 179.8. The federal and state governments target a value of 50.
Information from the previous day:
Vaccine: Approval decision on December 21.
Corona-Ampel:
* The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) has adopted the Covid-19 panel from the Ministry of Health. As a result, there are numerous changes. The figures are no longer updated every hour, but once a day at 2 pm Due to the change, there may be major differences in the numbers. However, the data can be presented more accurately at the state level.
