Austria currently has the highest rate of new infections in the world – Coronavirus Vienna

In the seven-day average that is typical for comparisons, Austria is ahead of Georgia, Switzerland and the Czech Republic with 831 new infections per million inhabitants. While Switzerland and the Czech Republic were able to slow down their new infections recently, those in Austria have risen uncontrollably since mid-October.

In view of the high occupancy of hospitals and the increasing number of new infections and deaths, the government will announce a significant tightening of anti-crown measures on Saturday. The second comparatively mild “lockdown” that took effect on November 3 has yet to stem the rise in infections.

After the first lockdown in spring, which went into effect on March 16, infections continued to rise for two weeks and then fell again starting in April. The number of deaths from coronavirus remained high for the time being and only started to decline again from mid-April.

This time, however, both the number of new infections per day and the number of people who died with a Covid 19 infection are significantly higher than in the spring: 159 new infections were recorded on March 16 (at 8: 00 am). According to AGES data, most of the “first wave” deaths occurred on April 6 through April 31. For comparison: nearly 9,600 new infections and 53 deaths were reported on Friday.

In terms of deaths, Austria is, of course, a long way from international record levels. In Europe, Slovenia, Belgium and France are currently ahead of Austria. It is different with new infections. Here, Austria ranks first in the world in an average of seven days with 831 cases per million inhabitants, ahead of Georgia (781), Switzerland (743), the Czech Republic (674) and Slovenia (668). In the comparison, small states with less than one million inhabitants are not taken into account.