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In Austria there was a sad record on Wednesday. For the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 100 people died within 24 consequences of a Covid 19 infection. Overall, the death toll rose to more than 2,000. 109 more deaths have been reported since Tuesday morning. Thus, there are already 2,054 deaths in Austria. In one week, 490 were added, an average of 70 Covid-19 deaths per day.
7,091 new infections were reported on Wednesday. With 33,128 tests recently registered, the positive rate was 21 percent. On average, 7,044 new infections were added every day during the past week. In total, nearly 50,000 new cases were reported last week. The seven-day incidence per 100,000 residents was 554 on Wednesday.
The number of hospitalized patients continues to rise, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health. 682 Covid 19 patients required intensive care on Wednesday, 24 more than on Tuesday. In one week, 146 more patients reached the intensive care units, corresponding to an increase of 27 percent. A total of 4,592 people had to be treated at the hospital on Wednesday, 67 more than the day before and 835 more than last Wednesday.
Most new infections in Upper Austria
76,896 people across Austria were considered to be actively infected on Wednesday. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 221,688 people have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, which is already 2.5 percent of the total population. 142,738 inhabitants are considered recovered.
The highest number of new infections occurred on Wednesday with 1,700 in Upper Austria, 1,215 in Vienna and 1,003 in Lower Austria. In Styria, 998 new cases were added in the last 24 hours, in Tirol 711 and in Salzburg 637. Carinthia introduced 438 new infections in the EMS, Vorarlberg 218 and Burgenland 171.
Decreases in Vorarlberg
In Vorarlberg, the downward trend in coronavirus infections continued on Wednesday, for the sixth day in a row. From midnight to late afternoon (starting at 4:00 pm), 175 new infections were recorded, with 210 recovered. The number of actively positive Covid-19 infected people dropped from 4,001 to 3,964 cases. The intensive occupation in hospitals remained tense, but stable. There were two more deaths per crown.
In Vorarlberg, 78 people have died from or with the virus. In the country’s hospitals, 200 (plus eight) patients with corona were in hospital treatment, 41 of them, two more than the previous day, were in the intensive care unit. Of the 71 intensive care beds available across the country, the same number was free as the day before, that is, 16. The situation around hospital staff has worsened. 133 (plus 14) were infected with the corona virus, 107 (plus seven) other employees were quarantined as contact persons.
According to the Corona board of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (Ages), Vorarlberg gave up the red lantern after many days as the fund of all federal states with the incidence of seven days per 100,000 inhabitants. With 688.7 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days, the state ranked third behind Salzburg (778.1) and Carinthia (709.1), closely followed by Upper Austria (682.1). The Austrian average was 525.7.
Tyrol opposition detects flaws
The Tyrolean state parliament on Wednesday discussed the second crown lockdown and associated restrictions and measures. The occasion was an “oral report” by Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP), in which he warned that the healthcare system would fully reach its limits if the trend is not reversed soon. In the summer months, very little was done, criticized members of the state parliament from the opposition parties SPÖ, FPÖ, Neos and List Fritz.
The situation in the Tyrolean hospitals was “dramatic”, the Tyrolean regional chief reported: a threatened situation in which only a limited emergency operation would be possible, beds were scarce and staff were overloaded. “They happened very little in the summer months,” criticized the president of the list Fritz, Andrea Haselwanter-Schneider, speaking mainly of the threat of shortage of personnel and overload in the sanitary and domiciliary facilities. He also referred to an “unreasonable” bureaucratic burden, for example, of testing residents of the home: “Right now, the staff is doing nothing more than organizing Covid-19.”
The FPÖ also located flaws in the health sector. He also called for special measures for particularly vulnerable groups of people. State Member of Parliament Patrick Haslwanter mentioned separate seating areas in public transportation, as well as separate opening hours in retail. It had been known for eight months which groups of people were particularly at risk, he also saw a failure of the state government in this regard. (apa)
