Corona statistics: 684 new infections on Friday in Austria – Coronavirus Vienna

On Friday, 684 new SARS-CoV-2 infections were reported in Austria in 24 hours. Thus, the number of active cases rose to 8,413.

There was a significant decrease in hospital patients: from 463 on Thursday to 411 on Friday. However, the statistics showed three more deaths – a total of 786 Covid 19 patients have died since the pandemic began. For the first time, more than 20,000 tests were recorded in 24 hours.

So far 41,500 positive results have been obtained in Austria. As of Friday 9:30 a.m., 411 people were in hospital treatment for the coronavirus and 78 of them were in intensive care units, in the latter there were no changes compared to the previous day.

The average number of new infections over the past seven days was 691. Vienna again recorded the highest number of additional coronavirus infections with 309. There were 4,479 active cases in the federal capital on Friday. Lower Austria reported 136 new infections, 1,169 people are actively infected. In Tyrol, 62 new infections were added in the last 24 hours, a total of 549 people are currently infected. Upper Austria recorded an increase of 52 cases, 739 people are considered active cases.

Across Austria, 20,409 tests have been entered into the Resident Epidemiological Register (EMS) since Thursday morning, more than ever since the start of the pandemic. As before, the figures in the individual federal states were very different. With the exception of Burgenland and Salzburg, all the remaining federal states reported more than 1000 PCR tests. In Vienna there were 5,684, in Lower Austria 3,040, in Upper Austria 2,564 and in Carinthia 2,444. In Styria, exactly 2,000 tests were reported in the last 24 hours, in Tirol 1,909 and in Vorarlberg 1,051. In Burgenland, 908 tests were added compared to Thursday, in Salzburg there were only 809. A total of 1,528,191 PCR tests have been carried out across Austria since the start of the pandemic.