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The Vienna City Councilor for Health Hacker explains that incorrect figures have been reported to the media. Lower Austria’s health councilor, Königsberger-Ludwig, warns of “uncertainty among the population.”
In Austria there should be a new record for new infections with the corona virus: 2317 cases were recorded from Friday to Saturday, reported “Kurier” and “Krone”. The day before, 1,163 new infections were registered. The sudden increase is said to have occurred because Vienna and Lower Austria reported cases.
However, the rumored figures should be treated with caution: in the case of Vienna, unadjusted raw data may have been released initially, and Lower Austria also finds a discrepancy. The Interior Ministry has not yet released official figures as of Saturday afternoon.
599 new infections in Vienna
In any case, the numbers circulated in the morning caused problems in Vienna and Lower Austria. Vienna has registered 599 new infections, as announced by the crisis team. Initially, the media reported a significantly higher number, that is, more than 800 new cases. The crisis team announced that it was raw data that had not yet been adjusted for multiple responses. A spokesman for Vienna’s Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) even spoke of a “direct lie” via Twitter. He regretted knowing that these figures had been actively released to the media, although he did not say who did. The spokesman criticized that the policy was deliberately made out of people’s fears.
Lower Austrian state health adviser Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig (SPÖ) also drew attention to a discrepancy between the number of new corona infections of state medical personnel and federal data reported by the media. Through a press spokesman, he criticized “the presentation of the figures from the Ministry of the Interior and Health.” On Saturday, state medical personnel reported 225 new infections, federal authorities reported 411.
“Annoyance that contributes to the insecurity of the population”
The extreme difference in the representation of the numbers is a “nuisance that contributes to the uncertainty of the population,” said the spokesman for the State Councilor. Lower Austrian state medical staff report the correct numbers to Vienna every day at 8 a.m. The way the federal government comes up with the different numbers can be partly explained by the different records from the individual test stations, but in it is generally “difficult to understand”.
(Red./APA)
