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On Saturday at 11.30 am it was: 869 new corona infections in Austria calculated in the last 24 hours. Anschober: The numbers are “clearly too high.”
2.10 pm, September 12, 2020
It was Saturday at 11.30am – 869 new corona infections in Austria calculated in the last 24 hours, 444 of them in Vienna alone. 580 new infections were reported on Friday, a value that the federal capital, along with Lower Austria (135), has almost reached. On Monday, the Austrian Crown Commission will meet for another meeting due to the high numbers. The head of the traffic light commission, Ulrich Herzog, worries about the latest developments in new corona infections. as he said in an interview with ZiB2 on Friday night. As of 9 p.m., 912 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours.which is the highest value since the end of March.
So far there have been 32,696 sick people, 754 people have died from the consequences of the coronavirus and 26,579 have recovered. There are currently 209 people in hospital treatment for the corona virus, 42 of them in intensive care units.
Anschober: Numbers “clearly too high”
“These numbers are clearly too high for this moment. Every effort must now be made to ensure that this does not result in an exponential increase in the direction of a second wave.” highlighted the Minister of Health, Rudi Anschober (Greens) on Saturday. The development of new infections “confirms the need of yesterday’s resolutions to significantly expand protection measures.”
Never before has so much been tested (14,674 tests in 24 hours) – Due to this and the massively expanded testing strategy, the current infection numbers are not completely comparable to the spring numbers. “But 869 new infections found with 322 new patients in the last 24 hours are a worrying development,” said the department head. Fortunately, both hospitalizations and deaths are relatively stable.
The numbers would correspond to “what we’ve been seeing for a long time,” Herzog said. However, Herzog defended the traffic light commission approach and the traffic light should not turn orange too quickly. It cannot be assumed that all of Austria will be orange next week.
Discussions in the Commission
Herzog admitted that there had been an “intense discussion” in the commission about whether it made sense to put all of Austria in yellow, because many districts were on the border with yellow. But they refrained from doing so, because many measures beyond the requirement for masks in schools, hospitals and care areas would have to be implemented in general if they had been set to yellow.
