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In Austria, 1,131 new corona virus infections had been reported within 24 hours on Friday morning. That was 78 less than the previous day’s record, when 1,209 positive tests were recorded. The number of active cases rose to the five-digit range with 10,307 affected, after 9,930 on Thursday. Four more deaths mean 842 people who have died so far. The number of hospitalized patients remained stable with 508 patients, 103 of them intensive.
There were 392 new cases in Vienna, 223 in Lower Austria and 163 in Upper Austria. With 116 new cases, Tirol also had three-digit case numbers; less in Styria (90), Salzburg (58), Vorarlberg (39), Carinthia (27) and Burgenland (23). On average, during the past seven days, there were 973 new infections each day; the day before the seven-day incidence was 910. As of Thursday (9.30am) there were 53,188 positive test results in Austria. 42,039 affected people have been recovered.
Contrary to initial media fears, the crown traffic light remained orange in all districts even after the commission meeting on Thursday. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) wants to explain why this is so with experts on Friday. Initially, it was feared that traffic lights would turn red in four districts.
The crisis team meeting is also eagerly awaited, for which Vienna Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) has announced his personal participation. He wanted to clear up misunderstandings after it was first announced Thursday that Vienna no longer wanted to attend staff meetings.
Press conference from 11 am to live broadcast:
Corona traffic light: ten new orange districts
You can read here how Austria’s districts were colored from Thursday to Friday as part of the Corona traffic light.
Those: APA
