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From Tuesday to Wednesday 3,394 new corona virus infections were confirmed in Austria. This is the second highest value since the outbreak of the pandemic and 559 more cases than the previous day. There were also 22 new deaths from the virus.
When comparing federal states, the newest and most confirmed cases were in Upper Austria (901), followed by Vienna (798), Tyrol (520), Styria (358), Vorarlberg (258), Burgenland (180), Carinthia ( 151), Salzburg (130) and Lower Austria (103).
So far there have been 89,496 positive results in Austria. As of today (October 28, 2020, 9:30 a.m.), 1,027 people in Austria have died as a result of the coronavirus and 61,684 have recovered. Currently, 1,569 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus and 224 of them are in intensive care units.
There are currently 26,785 actively sick people in Austria.
The situation in Vienna
As of Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8am, 28,923 positive tests have been confirmed in Vienna.
The number of deaths associated with the virus is 325. Four women (97, 80, 78 and 72 years) and two men (84 and 82 years) have died. 21,030 people have recovered.
Yesterday 7,087 corona tests were carried out in Vienna, making a total of 609,294 tests. The 1450 Health Hotline has received 9,227 calls.
Vienna also wants to postpone operations
Due to the rapid increase in the number of infections, the situation in Austrian hospitals is also reaching a critical point. After Upper Austria was the first federal state to announce Tuesday that it would postpone planned interventions, there are similar plans in Vienna. “In the next few days” elective interventions should begin to be postponed, as Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) said on Wednesday S1– Said “Morning Journal”. This is to create space for the care of crown patients. Acute attention is not reduced.
“Right now we do not have 80 Covid-19 patients in intensive care units and in the next few days we will begin to reduce, postpone and postpone elective interventions,” Hacker said in the “Morgenjournal”. Elective interventions are interventions that can be planned, such as knee or hip operations or cataract interventions.
