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The majority of those who tested positive were in Vienna (266), 103 in Lower Austria and in the other federal states, values in the double-digit range. There are currently 472 people in hospital treatment, 100 of them in intensive care units. A week ago there were 78 patients with Covid 19 in intensive care. “We are currently in a situation where we are clearly outside the capacity limits,” Anschober stressed at a press conference in Vienna.
Video: Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Grne) on the current development of crown numbers
It is “temporary good news that it has not risen,” emphasized the Health Minister about the new infections in recent days. However: “We have to accept these numbers,” Anschober said. “But it is not only about health protection, all this has a huge impact on our economic development,” warned the Minister of Health. “The higher the number of infections, the higher the risk of unemployment,” said the department head.
Six new districts in orange
After the new traffic light switch, Krntner’s Hermagor region is among the high-risk districts for the first time due to a group that was created in the course of a cattle drive. Neusiedl am See in Burgenland, Sankt Plten Stadt, Mistelbach and Scheibbs in Lower Austria and Hallein in Salzburg have also been upgraded from yellow to orange. There was positive news for three districts: Kufstein in Tyrol was downgraded from orange to yellow. Eferding in Upper Austria and Deutschlandsberg are now green again instead of yellow.
At the moment, 2.7 percent of infections in Austria that are associated with a group can be assigned to the education sector. This emerges from the current analysis of the epidemiologist from the Agency for Food Safety (AGES). Half of the infected people who can be assigned to the group have been infected at home since September 1. “Household groups continue to dominate,” said AGES chief epidemiologist Daniela Schmid. About half of the total cases can be assigned to groups.
Vienna relies on corona tests performed by bicycle couriers
Meanwhile, Vienna is changing its strategy to test suspicious cases, i.e. to bike messengers, the ON has reported on this. They will visit people with symptoms at home and initiate the investigation. A prerequisite for the fact that medical personnel are no longer required is a change in the test method. In these cases, only gargle tests are used. If symptoms occur, you should first contact the 1450 Health Hotline.
In Lower Austria, rapid tests for employees and companies were fully underway on Friday. In Mdling’s “starting district”, the Occupational and Social Medical Center (AMZ) received 400 registrations as of Thursday, the State Chamber of Labor and Commerce announced. The Wiener Neudorf rapid test lane is fully operational. In a company in the Mdling district, 53 cases have been recorded, compared to 18 the day before.
Playback number back below 1.0
The effective breeding number for Austria is below 1.0 for the first time since August 10. It is estimated that one infected person last infected another 0.99 people, according to calculations by the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and Graz University of Technology. “The number of new cases diagnosed every day continues to increase, “was emphasized in the update posted on AGES ‘home page on Friday afternoon.
The period from September 17 to 29 was examined. The estimated daily rate of increase for new infections was minus 0.6 percent as of September 29. In some federal states, the number of newly diagnosed cases was very low, so fluctuations in the number of reproductions must be interpreted with great caution, experts emphasized.
In Burgenland, Krnten and Salzburg, the effective reproduction number is greater than 1.0. The update said, however, that there is a tendency to decline towards one. In Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Vienna the value is around 1.0 and in Tyrol and Vorarlberg well below.
A replay number of 1.0 means that one additional new infection is triggered per case. In theory, this results in a constant number of new infections every day, that is, an endemic spread of the virus. AGES noted, however, that the actual number of reproductions says nothing about the daily number of cases. These had recently settled at a “high level” with 600 to 800 new infections per day.
