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So far 340,373 cases, 5,435 deaths and 305,658 recovered. 2,871 hospitalized, 478 of them intensive. 1,519 new infections in Austria
Vienna (OTS) – So far 340,373 positive results have been obtained in Austria. As of today (December 21, 2020, 9:30 a.m.), 5,435 people in Austria have died as a result of the corona virus and 305,658 have recovered. There are currently 2,871 people in hospital treatment for the coronavirus and 478 of them are in intensive care units.
New infections since the last report are distributed among the Austrian federal states as follows:
Burgenland: 68
Carinthia: 133
Lower Austria: 324
Upper Austria: 272
Salzburg: 91
Steiermark: 156
Tyrol: 147
Vorarlberg: 84
Vienna: 244
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 that 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 for the Minister of Social Affairs
Stubenring 1, 1010 Vienna
press officer@sozialministerium.at
www.sozialministerium.at
