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The number was also well above the average of the last seven days: an average of 2,002 positive tests were recorded. 30,667 CRP tests were reported in the last 24 hours. The positive result rate was just under 9.3 percent of positive test results.
There have been 347,204 infections in Austria since the start of the pandemic. According to figures from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior (at 9:30 a.m.), 5,745 people in Austria have died from or with Covid-19, and there have been 91 more deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of hospital patients continues to decline slightly: on Christmas Eve there were 2,648 people with Covid-19 in the hospital (127 fewer than the previous day) and 445 of them in intensive care units (less 27). So far, 315,952 people have recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. There are currently 25,507 active infections. Currently, 2,648 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus and 445 of them are in intensive care units.
In the last 24 hours, Upper Austria recorded the most new infections with 527, followed by Lower Austria with 513 and Vienna with 493. There were 395 new infections in Styria, 296 in Salzburg, 219 in Tyrol, 193 in Vorarlberg, 157 in Carinthia and 54 in Burgenland.
The seven-day incidence, the number of cases per 100,000 residents in seven days, rose from 157.4 to 161.5 on Wednesday. The incidence of deaths in seven days was 8.6.
