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So far 334,913 cases, 5,127 deaths and 297,424 recovered. 3,073 hospitalized, of which 495 were intensive. 2,085 new infections in Austria
Vienna (OTS) – So far there have been 334,913 positive results in Austria. As of today (December 18, 2020, 9:30 a.m.), 5,127 people in Austria have died as a result of the coronavirus and 297,424 have recovered. Currently, 3,073 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus and 495 of them are in intensive care units.
New infections since the last report are distributed among the Austrian federal states as follows:
Burgenland: 84
Carinthia: 161
Lower Austria: 423
Upper Austria: 297
Salzburg: 139
Steiermark: 253
Tyrol: 184
Vorarlberg: 103
Vienna: 441
The Ministry of Health dashboard is operated by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and can be accessed at the URL covid19-dashboard.ages.at. The dashboard extracts its data exclusively from the Epidemiological Population Registry (EMS) and is updated once a day at 2:00 pm EMS is the official registry, in which the district authorities and laboratories enter. The Federal Ministry of the Interior collects the figures as part of the coordination of state crisis and disaster management in the Operations and Coordination Center (EKC) through a videoconference; These figures may contain cases that are not yet registered in the SGA.
Queries and contact:
Federal Ministry of the Interior
Department I / 5 – Public Relations
press office
+43 (0) 1-531 26 – 24 88
press office@bmi.gv.at
bmi.gv.at
Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Attention and Consumer Protection
Press spokesperson team of the Minister of Social Affairs
Stubenring 1, 1010 Vienna
press officer@sozialministerium.at
www.sozialministerium.at
