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After the fewest new infections were reported in Austria for two months on Monday, authorities announced 1,853 new cases on Tuesday. In addition, the number of patients in the hospital has risen again for the first time in days, on Tuesday 2,922 Covid-19 patients had to be treated at the hospital. In addition, 105 deaths have been reported since the previous day, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Health.
On average, during the last seven days, there were still more than 2,000, exactly 2,078, new infections per day in Austria. 27,091 people were considered actively infected two days before Christmas Eve. The 1,853 new infections were compared to 3,937 people recently recovered on Tuesday. The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days fell to 163.4.
The death toll remains particularly dramatic. Once again, more than 100 deaths from or with Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours. Last week, 892 victims were added, as many as were recorded since the beginning of the pandemic until October 18, that is, in just under seven months.
2,922 people in hospital on Tuesday
On average, 127 people who died from the aftermath or from a SARS-CoV-2 infection were reported daily during the last week. The incidence of seven days of death is ten, that is, ten people per 100,000 inhabitants died as a result of an infection in the last week.
2,922 people were in the hospital on Tuesday, 51 more than on Monday. However, compared to last Tuesday, there were 602 fewer patients in the hospital. There were also more sick people in intensive care units on Tuesday, a total of 487, nine more than on Monday. In one week, the number of intensive care patients dropped by 86 (minus 15 percent).
342,226 people tested positive
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 342,226 people have tested positive in Austria. 309,595 survived a SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the last 24 hours, 29,463 arrived in Austria, of which 6.3 percent were positive. On average, 28,227 tests were performed daily during the last seven days
fed in the epidemiological notification system (EMS). 7.4 percent of these were positive.
Most of the new infections since Monday were reported in Vienna with 358, in Styria there were 308 and in Upper Austria 294. Tyrol reported 231 new cases, Lower Austria 220 and Carinthia 145. There were significantly fewer than 100 new infections, 62 in Vorarlberg and 30 in Burgenland. . (apa)
