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Across Austria, the number of Covid19-related deaths also increased: with 992, now almost 1,000 are reached and in October alone there were almost 200 so far. With an average of about 2,300 new infections per day, the number of new infections each day increased dramatically in a week, the seven-day incidence of ECDC changed from 191 last Monday to almost 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants: “We have a exponential growth rate increasing, “said the Chancellor.
Difficult numerical chaos
As before, there are several sources of figures in Austria regarding SARS-CoV-2 developments, some of which differ significantly from each other due to different survey methods. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) announced to the “press” now a uniform statistic. The Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) are publishing figures. “In the future, the same figures will be released at the same time. The main source is still the AGES board,” Anschober said.
On Monday, for example, more than 32,000 active cases were shown on this board, a difference of around 9,000 compared to the around 23,000 that the Interior Ministry figures reveal. The explanation: although the AGES figures come from the Residential Epidemiological Registry (EMS), the official registry, the Ministry of the Interior (BMI) collects their figures in the videoconference of the State Crisis Center.
So far 87,119 controls
As for the criminal aspect of the fight against the pandemic in Austria, the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced this Monday that since the start of the focus actions on September 24, 87,119 controls have been carried out and 958 complaints have been filed. There have been 230 of them since last Friday alone.
