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“That’s exactly where we don’t want to go in Austria,” Anschober said, given partial lockdowns in Slovenia, Italy, Slovakia and a true Czech Republic since Thursday. The numbers are serious in this country too, but you still have every chance. “The parameter is, of course, the situation in intensive care areas”, because this also anchors the legal regulation for confinement in Austria.
Total capacity was around 2,000 intensive-care beds, on October 15 six percent were occupied, a week later it was eight percent, a “manageable increase” for Anschober. Gesundheit Österreich’s (GÖG) 14-day forecast predicts 12 percent capacity utilization for November 4, so there is still plenty of room for improvement. However, the minister warned about “important dates”, the fall holidays: “If you can, stay home,” he appealed, especially with regard to Halloween. “This is usually the case,” Anschober said, and this year there is no room for more cases due to specific celebrations with alcohol content.
As of Friday, 9.30am, 2,571 new corona infections were reported in Austria within 24 hours. There are currently 18,266 actively infected people across the country. So far, 74,415 positive results have been obtained in Austria. 954 people died with or from SARS-CoV-2, 55,195 have recovered. On Friday, 1,058 people were in hospital treatment for Covid-19, 158 of them in intensive care units.
The effective breeding number of SARS-CoV-2 increased again in Austria compared to the previous week and is now 1.23. The estimated daily rate of increase has almost doubled from 3.5 to 6.2 percent. The two values result from data from the laboratory diagnosis date for the period from 13 days to October 21 inclusive and are based on 18,970 cases of SARS-CoV-2 in this period.
You have to start with your free time, said Daniela Schmid, spokeswoman for the Corona Commission. After there are 25 districts at high risk of spread since Thursday night, according to the traffic light in Corona, the “objective is to reduce the speed of spread,” mainly by reducing social contacts. As for the introduction of the virus in the health sector, the number of cases is increasing, Schmid explained, including cases in the care of the elderly and therefore the possibility of serious disease courses.
Over time, the spread and thus the systemic risk of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already become a greater risk, according to the Corona stoplight online page: Proportion of the population in regions with a determined risk assessment was on March 3 September at 72 percent low risk (green) and 28 percent at medium risk (yellow). However, on October 22, only one percent of the Austrian population lived in low-risk regions (green), eleven percent in medium-risk regions (yellow), 61 percent high-risk (orange) and 27 percent very high risk (red).
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