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In the last 24 hours, 2,263 new SARS-CoV-2 infections have been reported in Austria. However, these are the so-called Monday numbers: fewer tests or evaluations are done on the weekend. The weekly average is still well above 3,000 – an average of 3,320 new infections were added every day for the past seven days. More than 4,000 new recoveries were registered, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and Health.
Only 14,577 test results were recorded in the last 24 hours, 14.2 percent of them were positive. For comparison: an average of 23,396 SARS-CoV-2 smears were added daily during the last week. However, the number of daily tests already exceeded 30,000.
57 deaths have been reported since Sunday. Since the start of the pandemic, 3,897 people have died in Austria as a result of a Covid 19 infection. The numbers have been dramatically high recently: around 101 deaths were reported every day for the past week. The seven-day incidence is currently eight, that is, eight people per 100,000 inhabitants have died as a result of an infection in the last week. This value is still clearly higher in Carinthia: here the incidence of deaths in seven days is 18.7. A total of 713 deaths have been reported across Austria in the last seven days.
For the first time in several days, more people need to be treated in the hospital than the day before. On Monday, 3,885 people were in the hospital due to a coronavirus infection, 83 more than on Sunday. The number of intensive care patients continues to decline: 616 required intensive medical care on Monday, 16 fewer than on Sunday.
The seven-day incidence of new infections continued to fall, reaching 261.1 on Monday. This means that 261.1 per 100,000 inhabitants were infected in the last week. The 14-day incidence was 621.9. The number of infected people per 100,000 inhabitants is therefore more than six times higher than the 100 which, according to federal government requirements, should be the limit for people entering Austria from abroad without quarantine as of 19 from December.
Since the start of the pandemic, 305,693 people in Austria have tested positive for coronavirus. 256,811 people are considered to have recovered, in the last 24 hours there were 4,046 recently recovered, significantly more than new infections.
Vienna reported the highest number of new infections in the last 24 hours with 442, followed by Lower Austria with 413 and Upper Austria with 305. In Vorarlberg, 265 new cases were added, in Tirol 263 and in Styria 227. Salzburg reported 148 new infections , Carinthia 144 and Burgenland 56. The easternmost state is also the only state that has registered an average of less than 100 new cases per day during the last week. On average, there were 85 new infections every day in Burgenland.
Those: APA
