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113 people have been reported to have died as a result of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. The number of SARS-CoV-2 patients in hospitals dropped to a high level. On Friday there were fewer than 50,000 active cases confirmed for the first time in a month.
The last time this number was 46,834 on November 4, it was below the 50,000 mark. As of Friday there were 49,819 active confirmed cases in Austria. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) stated that the target value for new infections for the next 14 days is a reduction to almost a quarter. “We must dramatically reduce the number of new infections every day in the direction of 1,000 cases in the next two weeks,” he said in a broadcast.
According to the Ministry of Health, the number of new infections in nursing homes and nursing homes is starting to decline slightly for the first time: the number of tests in homes exceeded 15,000 in the last 24 hours. The exact number of new infections in households was not mentioned in the transmission.
For the first time in exactly three weeks, fewer than 4,000 people had to be treated in hospital for a coronavirus infection. On November 13 there were 3,922 people hospitalized, on Friday the Ministry of the Interior and Health reported 3,980 patients in hospitals. Compared to Thursday, this means a decrease of 102 patients. There were 642 patients in intensive care units, on Thursday 668.
“However, the situation in intensive care units is still marked by severe overload. We have to achieve the goal of reducing the number of Covid patients in intensive care units to 200 by Christmas. Only then can it be reduced so much. the overload “. sufficient resources can be created to catch up with operations that have now been postponed, ”Anschober emphasized. Because as of January, an additional load of ten to 15 percent is expected in intensive care units due to the flu wave.
Again, the number of reported deaths was dramatically high, over 100. Most people died in Styria (23), Upper Austria (22) and Carinthia (21). On average, around 109 deaths were reported across Austria during the past week. In the last seven days, 765 deaths were added. Most of those infected, nearly 70 percent, have died since early November. Since then, more than 2,500 deaths have been reported.
Analysis of today’s figures shows that it takes at least a week for the number of admissions in normal wards to begin to decline after new infections, Anschober said. Again, with a delay of at least a week, the number of seriously ill Covid patients in intensive care units decreases, and then with a further delay, the number of deaths.
Since the start of the pandemic, 297,245 people in Austria have tested positive for coronavirus. 243,775 people are considered to have recovered, in the last 24 hours there were 5,648 recently recovered, significantly more than new infections.
The incidence of seven days per 100,000 inhabitants in Austria was below 300 for the first time since Friday October 30 and was 294.9 two days before the start of the closing light. At the beginning of the month, they were still over 500 in Austria.
28,674 tests were added in the last 24 hours. With 3,815 positive results, the positive rate is 13.9 percent. An average of 26,925 daily tests was recorded in the last week, the average at the beginning of the month already exceeded 30,000.
Most of the new infections were reported in Upper Austria on Friday (746), 635 in Lower Austria, 630 in Styria and 614 in Vienna. In Salzburg there were 324 new cases, in Carinthia 316 and in Tirol 300. Vorarlberg reported 127 new infections and Burgenland 123.
