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The number of active cases is clearly increasing: to 7,447 this value has risen by 1,253 in three days. Hospitalizations are also increasing.
On Friday there were 334 people in Germany in a hospital. It was 15 more than the day before. 62 patients had to be treated in intensive care, seven more than on Thursday. In one week, starting from a low level, this corresponded to a 51 percent increase, as Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Grne) noted with concern: “We are now at a fork in the road. Or we can do it by consistently implementing the new measures Keep the development stable or there is a risk of an exponential change in development at the end of September.
At the same time, Anschober confided in a press release that the latter can be avoided, “because now the population seems to shake after the alarm clock by the traffic lights and the evolution of the figures.” The demand for masks, which came into force at the beginning of the week, is “very well fulfilled. This recalls the high level of responsibility of the population in spring,” said the Minister of Health. Anschober was convinced that the stricter measures decided by the federal government, which should be observed from next Monday, will be “accepted and implemented by the population. If that is successful, we have a good chance of stabilizing development again.” However, at the moment, the development is “worrying”.
“Register” the number of tests
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 36,661 people in Austria have tested positive. Of these, 763 died as a result of the corona virus. 28,451 are considered to have been recovered.
When it comes to new infections, the federal capital accounted for 341 on Friday, a decrease of 25 compared to the previous day. There was a considerable increase with 159 compared to 100 on Thursday in Lower Austria. 85 new cases were reported in Styria, 75 and 71 respectively in Tyrol and Styria. Vorarlberg recorded 28 new infections, 23 in Salzburg and 18 in Burgenland. Only eight new infections were recorded in Krnten.
18,854 tests were recorded across the country in 24 hours, “a record number,” as Minister Anschober noted. 6,929 of them were in Vienna. More than four times as many tests as Krnten’s day before were entered into the Epidemiological Registry Registry (EMS). With 2,394 tests on Friday, they came even second after the federal capital, ahead of Tirol (2,210), Styria (1,957) and Upper Austria (1,643). Vorarlberg (1,326) and Burgenland (1,039) also provided significantly more tests than recently, each of which nearly doubled their reports compared to the day before. On the other hand, there was a strong outlier in Lower Austria with 891. Testing continues at a comparatively moderate level in Salzburg (465).
