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Since Friday, 82 more Covid-19-related deaths have been reported. 31,389 people are currently considered to be actively infected with the coronavirus.
A few days before the third closure in Austria, 2,296 new positive cases were recorded in 24 hours. Since Friday, 82 more Covid-19-related deaths have been reported, a total of 5,209 deaths. 794 people died from Covid-19 in Austria in one week. On Saturday, for the first time in about six weeks, fewer than 3,000 people had to be treated in hospital for a Sars-CoV-2 infection.
On average during the last seven days, 2484 new daily infections were added in Austria. 31,389 people were considered actively infected on Saturday, according to data from the Interior and Health Ministry. The nearly 2,300 new infections were compared to 3,187 recently recovered. The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days fell to 195.3. However, it is still roughly twice the government’s goal during the third blockade. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) stressed on Friday that the seven-day incidence should remain below 100. In addition, Austria will enter the third lockdown on December 26, Stefanitag.
2,964 people were in the hospital on Saturday, 109 fewer than on Friday, according to figures from the Interior and Health Ministry. The last time was on November 6 with 2925 patients, it was less than 3000. On Saturday, 489 patients were in intensive care units, six less than the day before. In one week, the number of intensive care patients dropped by 102 (minus 17 percent).
An average of 113 deaths per day
The death toll remains dramatic. On average, around 113 people who died from the aftermath or from a Sars-CoV-2 infection were reported daily during the last week. The incidence of deaths in seven days is 8.9, that is, almost nine people per 100,000 inhabitants died from the effects of an infection in the last week.
83 per cent of deaths in Austria were registered in the last three months alone; in total there were 4,305 deaths from Covid-19. On October 19, the death toll was 904, well below 1,000.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 337,209 people have tested positive in Austria. More than 300,000 are considered recovered: Authorities on Saturday reported 300,611 people who had survived a Sars-CoV-2 infection. In the last 24 hours, 33,800 tests were added in Austria. With 2,296 new infections, the positive rate is 6.8 percent. On average, over the past seven days, 25,997 tests were entered into the epidemiological reporting system (EMS) each day. Almost ten percent of these were positive.
Vienna reported the highest number of new infections in the last 24 hours with 439, followed by Lower Austria with 416 and Upper Austria with 407. In Styria, 360 new cases were added, in Salzburg 160, in Carinthia 157 and in Vorarlberg 131. Burgenland reported 30 new infections and therefore remains the only federal state that recorded an average of less than 100 new cases per day during the past week. On average, there were 55 new infections every day in Burgenland. Most of them were there averaging 485 per day in Upper Austria.
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