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On Monday, 9,020 people in Austria were actively infected with SARS-CoV-2. In the last 24 hours, 750 new cases have been reported, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior and Health. 488 people were in the hospital at 9.30am (more than 12pm on Sunday), 101 of them in intensive care units (103 on Sunday). The number of deaths from Covid-19 increased from five to 818 people.
On average, over the past seven days, 781 new cases were added each day. A total of 48,896 people have tested positive so far. 39,058 people are considered recovered.
Most of them were in Vienna, 315. Upper Austria and Tyrol reported 106 new cases in the last 24 hours, Lower Austria 97 and Vorarlberg 50. 32 were added in Styria, 23 in Salzburg, 12 in Krnten and nine in Burgenland.
11,895 test results were reported in the last 24 hours. As always, there were far fewer on the weekend than on the week. According to figures from the Ministry of Health, only 66 tests were added in Styria. There were 174 in Burgenland, 191 in Krnten, and 418 in Salzburg. Tirol recorded 858 tests, 1,022 Vorarlberg and 2,782 Lower Austria. 2,980 Covid tests were reported from Vienna in the last 24 hours, most of them with 3,404 SARS-CoV-2 tests in Upper Austria.
Exactly one week ago, on September 28, there were 8,950 actively ill people in Austria; Compared to the current figure of 9,020, this is an increase of five percent. There was a significant increase in intensive care patients in one week: they went from 88 last Monday to 101 today, which is an increase of almost 15 percent. This is still a far cry from the previous peak of 267 intensive care patients on April 8, but Austria was on lockdown at the time and hospitals, unlike today, were not fully operational. In routine operation, the utilization of intensive care capacities in hospitals is typically well above 80 percent, and in many homes 90 percent or more.
