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Strong increase in new infections in Salzburg
The state of Salzburg reacted to the recent sharp increase in the number of new Covid 19 infections in the state. “The development is dramatic,” Governor Wilfred Haslauer said at a news conference. The number of new infections in the country has recently soared to more than 130 a day, that is, more than in the spring.
Tennengau occupies a leadership position
With a seven-day incidence of 352.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (as of 2:00 pm Wednesday), Tennengau held the ignominious first position in all of Austria by a clear margin. At today’s traffic signal commission meeting, the district will turn red, Haslauer said. The districts of Pongau (St. Johann district) and Flachgau (Salzburg area) will be “orange” at night, the state capital will remain a little below “yellow”.
Corona traffic light: More red candidates
Red candidates could also be in other federal states: Wels-Stadt had 218.7 SARS-CoV-2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the seven-day incidence on Wednesday, Innsbruck at least 187. This is the second largest city Upper Austria and the Tyrolean capital far ahead of Vienna. In the federal capital, the seven-day incidence on Wednesday was 146.3 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Record number of new infections
New infections spiked again in Austria on Thursday. At 9:30 a.m., 1,552 people tested positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours, a new record. 480 of the cases were registered in Vienna, the Interior Ministry reported in a broadcast. As of Thursday of last week there were still 1,209 new confirmed infections.
The new infections were distributed among the federal states of Austria as follows: Burgenland: 35, Carinthia: 22, Lower Austria: 242, Upper Austria: 224, Salzburg: 66, Styria: 119, Tyrol: 295, Vorarlberg: 69 and Vienna: 480.
So far 60,224 positive results have been obtained in Austria. As of Thursday, 877 people in Austria had died as a result of the corona virus and 46,798 have recovered. There were 664 people in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus and 119 of them were in intensive care units.
Briefly with an appeal to the federal states
In light of the growing number of corona infections, Federal Chancellor Kurz issued a written appeal to the federal states on Thursday. In several of them the figures had reached “very worrying levels”. Stronger measures are urgently needed there.
Anschober welcomes the tightening of measures
In regards to these measures, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) welcomed the fact that “many districts and countries are increasingly taking measures based on increased risk assessment for individual regions”, which would open the new possibilities of the Law of Covid-19 measures and used the traffic light. “At the moment, it’s largely about mitigating regional peaks. We are also currently reviewing various options for additional protection measures at the national level in the federal government, also based on today’s results of the new risk assessment. of the Corona traffic light commission “.
The situation in Europe is reaching a critical point
Kurz also commented on the general development: “We are currently seeing a massive spread of the virus in some cities and countries in Europe, which makes it necessary to fight it with very drastic measures,” said the Chancellor in the text available to the APA: ” It must be clear to everyone in the country: the situation is serious. ” A new infection rate like that of the neighboring country of the Czech Republic would have fatal effects on employment and businesses, would push the health system to its limits and would de facto cause a second lockdown.
(Those: APA)
