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the Healthcare system in Austria, in view of the corona pandemic, “it is now fully used”. So said Susanne Rabady, vice president of the Austrian Society of General Medicine, on Saturday at a press conference at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna. If the trend is not reversed, there would be “a triage situation in the next few days,” warned Klaus Markstaller, president of the Austrian Society for Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Medicine.
Currently, 567 beds out of 2,000 intensive care beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients. If the upward trend continues, it will become increasingly difficult “to get patients to the intensive care beds they need,” Markstaller said. This would lead to the triage situation, where the doctor has to decide which patients should be treated in intensive care. If “this continues”, this will happen in the “next few days”.
Rabady also highlighted the dramatic situation. You were as well prepared “as you can be”, but the rubber band would break at some point. However, it also showed a ray of hope. The pandemic, like all the previous ones, “will pass.”
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7,063 new infections
With 7,063 new SARS-CoV-2 infections reported across Austria on Saturday, the number of these has markedly decreased in the past two days. The number of hospital patients has increased further to 4,026, of whom 584 were treated in intensive care units. 85 people died with Covid-19, the total number of deaths is 1,746, as current figures show.
A week ago there were 1,377 deaths, which means that more than 50 people have died every day since then: every 30 minutes the number increased in another person. The number of intensive care patients increased in seven days from 432 by 35 percent to 584 people. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Health, 198,291 positive test results have been registered so far (at 9:30 am), 119,415 have been recovered, so there are currently 77,130 active cases after deducting deaths; A week ago there were 57,570.
Technical issues with EMS again
Due to renewed technical problems with the federal government’s epidemiological notification system (EMS), the total number of infected people in the state of Salzburg was estimated at 510 using an extrapolation based on the report from yesterday morning. With 1,665 new people infected, most of them were back in Upper Austria, followed by Vienna in 1,331 and Lower Austria with 1,026.
The new infections are distributed among the remaining federal states as follows: 190 were reported in Burgenland, 474 in Carinthia, 982 in Styria. 523 new cases were reported in Tyrol and 362 in Vorarlberg. The number of tests performed was not available on Saturday, but the proportion of positive tests recently exceeded 20 percent.
