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The number of seriously ill hospital patients rose from 463 to 504, according to Saturday’s figures from the Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry. In one week, the number of Covid intensive care patients increased by 110 or 27.9 percent.
Increase in intensive care units in Vienna
More than half of the recently occupied intensive care beds with SARS-CoV-2 – exactly 22 out of 41 – have been added to Vienna since Friday. There, on Saturday, the city’s crisis team announced 1,068 new infections from the day before and 115 late reports from Thursday. The head of the intensive care units of the Vienna General Hospital, Thomas Staudinger, spoke on Friday night in the “ZiB2” of the ORF (video above!) Of a “situation that at the moment is on the verge of what which we could call dramatic. “That seems to be related to the so-called mutation of the British virus, the doctor explained.
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What makes the British mutation dangerous?
“Now it is clear that the probability of a severe course of the disease has increased by more than 60 percent. And what we are seeing is that these patients simply arrive at the intensive care unit much, much faster. There are also non-Covid patients in intensive care units. Operations that can already be planned in Vienna should be postponed to free up intensive care beds. According to Staudinger, this also includes “major abdominal operations, tumor operations, complex cardiac operations, lung operations and the like. So actually things that should be resolved as quickly as possible in a normal state,” emphasized the AKH doctor.
The previous maximum in intensive care bed occupancy with crown patients was 709 in Austria on November 25 of the previous year. However, the increase in serious cases during the last week and since Friday is also evident when compared with the number of infected people in all hospitals. At 16.9 percent, this increased less dramatically than the proportion in intensive care units. A total of 2,156 hospital beds were occupied with Covid patients on Saturday, five more than the previous day.
New corona infections by federal state
- Burgenland: 142
- Carinthia: 184
- Lower Austria: 531
- Upper Austria: 539
- Salzburg: 196
- Steiermark: 297
- Tyrol: 340
- Vorarlberg: 98
- Vienna: 1,171
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The number of new infections in Austria was around 300 above the seven-day average of 3,192. The seven-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants rose to a value of 251. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 533,786 corona cases have been confirmed and so far 488,964 people have survived an infection. 9,231 have died, 31 more since Friday and 179 deaths in the last seven days. 35,591 infected people were considered active cases on Saturday.
Mass correction of data in Vorarlberg
So far, 1,095,782 people have received a first dose of a corona vaccine, according to the Health Ministry panel. 393,928 people received the two doses necessary for full protection from vaccination.
The test statistics are not significant due to a massive data correction in Vorarlberg. There, the number of PCR tests performed to date has been massively revised downwards, while the number of antigen tests has been revised upwards. In total, statistics for the whole of Austria show some 223,000 fewer PCR tests than the previous day.
(Those: APA)
