Corona statistics: 8,241 new infections on Saturday in Austria – Coronavirus Vienna

On Saturday there was another record of new SARS-CoV-2 infections in Austria. 8,241 cases were reported in the last 24 hours. The number of actively infected people increased to 57,570, more than the inhabitants of St. Pölten. Meanwhile, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, more than 3,000 Covid-19 patients were treated at the hospital. Of these, 432 people required intensive care. The number of deaths increased from 37 to 1,377.

On Saturday there was again a high value for new infections with SARS-CoV-2 in Austria. 8,241 new cases of corona have been reported in the last 24 hours. This means that the number of new infections recorded per day has exceeded 8,000 for the first time.

On average, 6,042 new infections were added every day for the past seven days. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and Health, on Saturday there were 57,570 people actively infected in Austria. That’s more than the population of St. Pölten, for example: 55,514 people live in the capital of Lower Austria. Four federal states reported more than 1,000 new infections on Saturday, in Upper Austria there were even more than 2,200 new cases. A total of 29,810 test results were reported in the last 24 hours; With more than 8,200 positive results, the positive rate was around 28 percent.

The number of tests carried out so far in Austria has risen to 2,425,825 since the start of the pandemic. So far 147,220 people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, 88,273 are considered to have recovered.

On Saturday, a total of 3,006 people were in hospital treatment due to Covid-19 disease, 2,574 were in normal wards. 432 patients had to be treated in intensive care units, 421 on Friday. Since last Saturday, the number of intensive care patients has increased by 63 percent: seven days ago it was 265.

Note: Salzburg: The 790 new cases in Salzburg are internal state surveys, due to massive problems with lab reports at EMS. The test numbers could not be collected in their entirety for the same reason. Burgenland: In Burgenland there was a correction to the current number of intensive care beds yesterday.