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An additional 90 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, there are currently 15,000 active cases across Austria.
In Austria, 1,524 new SARS-CoV-2 infections have been reported in the last 24 hours. The number of confirmed active cases increased to more than 15,000 for the first time; there were 15,130 people across Austria on Tuesday. There was a significant increase in hospital patients: compared to Monday, there were 90 more, 889 patients with Covid-19 had to be treated in the hospital, 145 of them, like Monday, in the intensive care unit. The number of deaths increased from ten to 914.
A week ago, on October 13, 107 patients had to be treated in intensive care units, so their number has increased about 36 percent in one week. Covid 19 patients in normal wards recorded an increase of about 30 percent, from 504 last Tuesday to 654 people affected in the hospital Tuesday.
A total of 19,469 test results were reported in the past 24 hours, of which about 7.8 percent were positive. An average of 1,446 new infections were recorded during the last seven days. At 9:30 a.m. M., 67,451 people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 since the beginning of the epidemic in Austria. 51,407 are considered to have been recovered. Also on Tuesday there were again a significantly different number of tests and records in the epidemiological register (EMS) of the individual federal states.
Cluster at Vienna Internat
A group around a school in Hietzing became known in Vienna. Himmelhof federal boarding school is affected, as the free newspaper “heute” reports. A spokesman for the crisis team confirmed it. “Now there are 40 people infected.”
The school classes of the Diefenbach Gymnasium are housed at the boarding school site. The circumstances show how fast the virus can spread: a teacher tested positive for the corona virus. He immediately informed the school. As a result, 90 people (schoolchildren, teachers) were evaluated. The result: 34 students and a teacher were also ill.
Meanwhile, the coronavirus has drawn even more circles. The number of infected people has risen to 40. “Family members are also affected,” said the spokesman for the crisis team. At the moment there are no classes at the Himmelhof.
350 cases in schools, 54 in kindergartens
Currently there are 350 active positive cases in Viennese schools and 54 in kindergartens. However, relative to the total number of kindergarten pupils and children, this remains comparatively small: there are more than 600 schools with around 230,000 pupils in the federal capital. There are also more than 2000 kindergarten places with around 87,000 places.
So far, a total of 23,736 verifiably confirmed coronavirus infections have been recorded in Vienna. There were also two other deaths from Covid-19. A 75-year-old man and an 83-year-old woman did not survive the disease. Now there are 293 deaths in Vienna. There are currently 5,686 people actively infected with the virus.
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