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The number of hospitalizations fell, but the number of intensive care patients exceeded the 100 mark. Vienna recorded the most positive tests.
Vienna After the second highest increase in new infections since the start of the corona epidemic in Austria on Saturday with more than 1,000 cases, Sunday’s plus was again in the triple digits: 714 positive tests were reported in 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health. Interior and Health. The day before, there were 1,058 new confirmed infections, just below the previous high of March 26 with 1,065 infections.
There were slightly fewer people in hospitals on Sunday due to Covid-19: 476 patients after 494 on Saturday. However, the number of intensive care patients has increased from 97 to 103.
Most of the new confirmed infections (249) were registered in Vienna, where, for the third weekend in a row, the police and the magistrate intensified the control of night clubs: there were 25 in total.
In second place in positive tests is Lower Austria with 134, followed by Upper Austria with 127 and Tyrol with 69. Burgenland is last with twelve new infections.
“In contrast to Saturday, these are now stabilized figures, as they have been since September 20,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) said in a broadcast on Sunday. “However, these values are still clearly too high, we have to go down with the numbers.”
In total, there have been 48,146 positive test results in Austria so far, 813 deaths related to Covid-19, and 38,629 people who have recovered from illness. The number of current corona positive cases confirmed on Sunday was 8,704, down from 8,578 the day before.
The ski area wants to stay closed
On Sunday, the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” reported that the well-known Tyrolean ski area Axamer Lizum (Innsbruck-Land district) wants to keep it closed for the coming winter. Due to the current situation in the crown, the operators had submitted a request to the state government “for a temporary exemption from the obligation to operate this winter.”
The lack of adjustments to the legal situation for compensation claims from the Epidemic Law, travel warnings from neighboring countries with cancellations in recent days, and the associated negative economic outlook for the mountain railway were given as reasons. The communities of Axams, Grinzens, Birgitz and Götzens as co-shareholders have already been informed.
“All this is not entirely understandable, because the ski area is visited mainly by locals”, the mayor of Axam, Christian Abenthung (List Together for Axams), is quoted in the report, “for many tourism companies in our region the suspension of skiing would endanger existence.
He had therefore invited a crisis meeting on Monday, in which representatives of the cable car, Innsbruck Tourismus and local politicians from the region would also participate. The aim is for the ski lifts to work again in winter and for the ski area to remain in operation. (APA)
(“Die Presse”, print edition, October 5, 2020)
