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Health Minister Rudi Anschober (Greens) points to very strong crown growth in Europe. Also in Austria, the figures are “too high”.
“As was to be feared, the number of infections is increasing considerably in much of Europe, with an increasing trend in the last 24 hours,” says Health Minister Anschober. The basic figures: in Spain over 11,900 corona infections, in Great Britain over 14,000, in France over 11,500, the Netherlands over 9,100 and in the Czech Republic over 4,456. “In some countries, the number of deaths is increasing again for the first time,” said the minister.
Austria also recorded a growing number of positive tests: on Wednesday 1,029 positive results in 18,589 tests, “including Vienna again with the strongest increase (427), but also too high increases in Lower Austria (173), Upper Austria (141) and Tirol (123). “. At the same time, 709 newcomers were registered. The number of active cases has risen to 9,519.
High proportion of K1 people
Compared to the report date of a week ago, the number of active corona cases has increased by 13 percent, the number of hospitalizations by six percent, and the number of intensive care patients by 11 percent. “The first analysis of these increases shows that a high proportion is made up of people who are already in quarantine as K1 people,” Anschober said.
K1 people are those who have had direct and prolonged contact with someone who has been shown to be infected with corona and who have to go home in quarantine, even if they do not show any symptoms. “That’s the good part of the negative news: the high proportion of positive results from this group and the high number of tests carried out is a certain relativization of very high numbers,” Anschober said.
