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“Now we must do everything together to prevent this medical emergency.” He warned adhere to the measures and not celebrate. “Stay home if you can.”
“Our actions these days and weeks will decide whether everyone in our country will continue to receive medical help when they need it,” said the governor. Upper Austria has excellent health care, “but all health systems reach their limits at some point. However, it is up to each and every one in Upper Austria to stop this dramatic development.” It should also be taken into account that Covid-19 does not only affect older people, there are also younger people with very difficult courses, Stelzer emphasized. “No one should underestimate this virus.”
Augmented places
According to Stelzer, discipline regarding measures is also necessary in order to keep schools and kindergartens open. “I am still against the closure of schools and kindergartens, but if the number of infections continues to rise like this, other measures at the national level cannot be ruled out.” To avoid this, social contacts must be reduced.
The number of patients in hospitals shows how dramatically the situation is developing in Upper Austria: 803 patients had to go to normal wards and 101 to intensive care wards. The latter have increased from 50 to 150 intensive care and ventilation places this week. “In all hospitals,” as Upper Austrian health holding spokeswoman Jutta Oberweger said on Tuesday. The sites are set up in intensive care and surveillance rooms, as well as recovery rooms.
Two full intensive care units
There are normal beds for Covid 19 patients in different areas, “in different rooms that fit well.” There are currently around 800 and they are increased as needed. On Tuesday morning, 904 Covid-19 patients were treated in Upper Austrian hospitals, 101 of them in an intensive care unit.
According to Bernd Lamprecht, head of the pulmonary clinic at Kepler University Hospital in Linz (KUK), there were one or two stations for Covid-19 patients at KUK in spring, now there are seven. Jens Meier, head of the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine there, reported that two intensive care units were full and a third half full.
Tighter controls, 17 deaths
There were 1,183 new positive tests in Upper Austria in the last 24 hours. As of Tuesday, 12:00 pm, 12,912 inhabitants of Upper Austria were infected, 30,657, that is, approximately two percent of the population, were in quarantine. Authorities announced that they want to monitor compliance with quarantine regulations. On Tuesday, the country’s crisis team reported 17 new Covid-19-related deaths. The deceased were between 66 and 95 years old.
