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2,922 people with Covid-19 had to be treated at the hospital on Tuesday. The Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry reported 105 deaths since the previous day.
After the fewest new infections were reported in Austria for two months on Monday, authorities announced 1,853 new cases on Tuesday. In addition, the number of patients in the hospital has risen again for the first time in days, on Tuesday 2922 patients with Covid-19 had to be treated in the hospital. In addition, 105 deaths have been reported since the previous day, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Health.
On average, during the last seven days, there were still more than 2000, exactly 2078, new infections in Austria every day. 27,091 people were considered actively infected two days before Christmas Eve. The 1,853 new infections were compared to the 3,937 just recovered on Tuesday. The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days fell to 163.4.
The death toll remains particularly dramatic. Once again, more than 100 deaths from or with Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours. Last week, 892 victims were added, as many as were recorded since the beginning of the pandemic until October 18, that is, in just under seven months.
On average, 127 people who died from the aftermath of or from a Sars-CoV-2 infection were reported daily during the last week. The incidence of seven days of death is ten, that is, ten people per 100,000 inhabitants died as a result of an infection in the last week.
More sick people in intensive care units
2,922 people were in the hospital on Tuesday, 51 more than on Monday. However, compared to last Tuesday, there were 602 fewer patients in the hospital. There were also more sick people in intensive care units on Tuesday, a total of 487, nine more than on Monday. In one week, the number of intensive care patients dropped by 86 (minus 15 percent).
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 342,226 people have tested positive in Austria. 309,595 survived a Sars-CoV-2 infection. In the last 24 hours, 29,463 arrived in Austria, of which 6.3 percent were positive. On average, 28,227 tests were entered into the Epidemiological Reporting System (EMS) every day for the past seven days. 7.4 percent of these were positive.
Most of the new infections since Monday were reported in Vienna with 358, in Styria there were 308 and in Upper Austria 294. Tyrol reported 231 new cases, Lower Austria 220 and Carinthia 145. There were significantly fewer than 100 new infections, 62 in Vorarlberg and 30 in Burgenland. .
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