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In light of the number of infections and those of intensive care patients, additional follow-ups will be discussed with state governors in a video conference Friday night. The Governor of Burgenland, Hans Peter Doskozil (SP), for example, had demanded the closure of shops and schools, the head of the SP, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, spoke in favor of a “Christmas break”.
Anschober now wants to negotiate with the heads of country first. In any case, there is intensive medium-term planning in the federal government. When asked, the Health Minister said that it will be discussed tomorrow and then communicated whether the schools will be closed again before the actual Christmas holidays.
The deaths are “too many”
The department head explained the extremely high number of 218 deaths from the corona virus in the past 24 hours and said there had been a data comparison between AGES and state data in Vienna. He had commissioned a specification. However, for days and weeks there have been more than 100 deaths and there are “too many”: “I am not willing to accept that.”
In the federal capital, the number of deaths related to the corona virus has recently skyrocketed. The medical crisis team reported 135 additional deaths from Wednesday to Thursday. A large part of this is due to data cleansing, as explained. In fact, there were 15 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Although 774 previous deaths from corona were reported yesterday, on Thursday there were already 909. The crisis team of the City of Vienna announced it in a transmission by indicating that they had decided to synchronize the number of deaths with the data of AGES (Health Agency and Food Safety).
“So far, different values for Covid-19 deaths have been circulating in parallel. These differed, depending on who collected them (Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Health or AGES), sometimes significantly between each other and the information. provided by the federal states, “explained the crisis team. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) definition, all such cases must be counted as Covid deaths that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 within four weeks prior to the time of death, even if not Covid-19 disease is likely to cause death. to be.
“In the past, this has repeatedly led to late reports if the deaths did not refer to active Covid cases. In these cases, a positive pretest for SARS-CoV-2 was often only found after the time of death. the entire time series can also be adjusted retrospectively, “it was explained.
To rule out “unnecessary confusion and inconsistencies due to late notification for the subsequent course of the pandemic”, Vienna has now decided to adopt the AGES submission system. This led to a single peak of 135 recently reported deaths. With 909 deaths counted so far, Vienna has the second lowest value of all federal states with 47.4 Covid deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and is also well below the Austrian average of 53.7, the crisis team emphasized.
Excluding the reported cases, 15 Viennese died in the last 24 hours from or from a corona infection. There were nine men between the ages of 51 and 96 and six women between the ages of 67 and 88.
The number of new infections in one day in Vienna was 513, which means that 68,092 people have tested positive to date. 61,085 have been recovered. Yesterday, Thursday, 11,032 tests were carried out in the federal capital.
