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There were 327 new coronavirus infections in Vienna on Wednesday.
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In Vienna, 4,450 people are currently suffering from a coronavirus infection, so the number of active patients has increased again, although only very slightly. There were 327 new infections on Wednesday.
This stems from statistical data that the city’s medical crisis team released on Wednesday (at 8:00 am). The number of people hospitalized remains high.
Coronavirus: there are currently more people hospitalized than in March
There are currently 234 corona patients in hospitals, reported a spokesman for APA Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ). That’s more than in the first phase in March. However, there are fewer intensive cases. Currently 52 people need an intensive care bed. Of these, 17 people are in a surveillance room and 35 are actually in an intensive care unit.
According to the spokesperson, there is currently sufficient capacity in the hospitals. 235 intensive care beds and 1,955 regular beds are currently free for Covid patients throughout Vienna. In this context, the city council spokesperson emphasized that all hospitals are operating at full capacity, that was one of the lessons learned from the first corona wave in spring. “We are now treating roughly the same number of patients as in March, except that in March we reduced elective interventions to about 30 percent from the previous year’s level. Today we can continue to operate at full capacity.”
327 new corona infections on Wednesday in Vienna
According to the crisis team, the total number of people demonstrably infected with the coronavirus is currently 16,019. 327 new cases have been added in the last 24 hours. The number of deaths related to the virus remains unchanged at 250. 11,319 people are healthy again.
28 Corona cases in the retirement home of the Israelite religious community
On Wednesday it also emerged that at the Maimonides Center (MZ) in Leopoldstadt, which is the home for the elderly of the Israeli Religious Community (IKG), 28 people had tested positive for the corona virus. According to “Kurier”, an entire ward was isolated and the health authorities ordered that all residents and employees of the building, a total of 400 people, be examined.
6,247 crown tests were held in Vienna on Tuesday
Yesterday 6,247 crown tests were carried out in Vienna. That makes a total of 454,288 tests since the start of the pandemic. When it comes to contact tracing – that is, tracing the source of infection or contact persons – media reports say that only about half of the cases in Vienna can currently be traced.
The hacker spokesman for the APA said: “It’s a different point of view. We get the number that comes out now because the AGES (Austrian Agency for Food Safety, note) defines that a group is not considered cleared if the first case of the chain it has not been resolved, even if all subsequent cases are clearly traceable. “
The spokesman recalled that there were problems with the return of the travelers: “Some of them have not complied with the border regulations. And of course they do not tell us that your nephew, sister, brother or you have crossed the border.” it must be followed without the rules of the game. “However, he emphasized that the decisive factor is not whether the first case has been completely resolved, but the following:” Because the respective routes of contagion are much more important to us as a regional authority, because then we know where to clean and isolate next. . We can still assign almost all the cases in Vienna to groups. “
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