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Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober
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On Saturday, the Interior Ministry reported 714 new infections for Austria, increasing the number of positive test results to a total of 42,214.
So far, 787 people have died from the consequences of the coronavirus and 33,154 have recovered. The number of active diseases dropped slightly to 8,273. There are currently 423 people in hospital treatment, 80 of them in intensive care units.
The new infections are divided between the federal states of Austria as follows:
- Burgenland: 20
- Carinthia: 16
- Lower Austria: 119
- Upper Austria: 95
- Salzburg: 45
- Steiermark: 32
- Tyrol: 61
- Vienna: 297
- Vorarlberg: 29
Across Austria, 17,443 tests have been entered in the Epidemiological Register Register (EMS) since Thursday morning (20,409 the day before). As usual, the figures were very different in different federal states. In Vienna there were 5,488, in Lower Austria 3,280, in Upper Austria 1,946 and in Carinthia 502. In Styria 2,463 tests were reported in the last 24 hours, in Tyrol 1,893 and in Vorarlberg 1,062. In Burgenland, 592 tests were added compared to Thursday, in Salzburg there were only 217. A total of 1,545,634 PCR tests have been carried out across Austria since the start of the pandemic.
Curfew controls
Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) had announced an increase in curfew controls by the police. As the interior minister announced on Saturday, 2,239 restaurants and venues in Germany were screened on Saturday night. “Now everyone’s joint effort is needed to reduce the number of infections. The point is that we stand together and take up the determined fight against the corona virus,” Nehammer said.
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