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In November you can feel a clear excess of mortality.
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In Austria, 2,431 deaths were recorded in the week of November 16-22. That is the highest number in 42 years. Overall, deaths during the week are 58 percent above average.
The corona pandemic is also reflected in official death statistics, and clearly. Statistics Austria reported 2,431 deaths on Thursday during the week of November 16-22. Since 1978, the year of the “Russian flu”, not many people are g in a single week.
died. At that time (February 20-26) there were 2,516 deaths. In total, 77,662 people died in the first 47 weeks of this year, 6.5 percent more than the average from 2015 to 2019.
Deaths 58 percent above average
The 2,431 deaths reported Thursday for the 47th calendar week of 2020 are 58 percent above the five-year average. The Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reports 568 deaths from a Covid infection this week. The highest value in the recent past was in early 2017 with 2,340 deaths (January 9-15). At that time, a particularly violent flu epidemic was rampant in Austria.
Men more affected than women
As Statistics Austria CEO Tobias Thomas said in a broadcast, the increase in deaths in the first 47 weeks of 2020 affected men (plus 9.4 percent) significantly more than women (plus 3 , 9 percent). According to the assessment, there were already a few calendar weeks in the first half of April and since mid-September in which deaths were slightly above the range of the last five years. However, Statistics Austria does not see a “worrying development” until October 19, when a weekly increase in deaths is recorded.
Also more deaths in nursing homes
Nursing home deaths have also risen significantly since mid-October. Statistics from Austria show a total of 19,447 deaths in nursing homes, nursing homes and facilities for the disabled for 2020 (as of Nov 22). That is five percent more than in the same period last year. Since October 19 alone, there have been 2,727 people, a 36 percent increase compared to 2019.
The increase in deaths in nursing homes paralleled the increase in deaths in the general population: here too, 36% more people died in the five weeks from October 19 to November 22 (10,380) than the average from the same period of the previous five. Years.
The largest increase in deaths between October 19 and November 22 was recorded in Carinthia (up 54 percent) and the lowest in Vienna (up 24 percent). But also in Styria (over 46), in Upper Austria (over 44), in Vorarlberg (over 43) and in Tyrol (over 42) there was an above-average increase in deaths. In Burgenland (plus 32), in Lower Austria (+28) and in Salzburg (+26) this is a little lower.
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