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So far 46,374 positive results have been obtained in Austria. To date, 803 people in Austria have died as a result of the coronavirus and 37,186 have recovered. There are currently 472 people in hospital treatment and 100 of them in intensive care units.
New infections by federal state
New infections since the last report are distributed among the Austrian federal states as follows:
- Burgenland: 25
- Carinthia: 20
- Lower Austria: 103
- Upper Austria: 75
- Salzburg: 32
- Steiermark: 37
- Tyrol: 88
- Vorarlberg: 42
- Vienna: 266
Most new infections in Vienna
Most of the new infections occurred in Vienna with 266, 103 in Lower Austria and in the other federal states with values in the double digit range. There are currently 472 people in hospital treatment, 100 of them in intensive care units. A week ago there were 78 patients with Covid 19 in intensive care. “We are currently in a situation where we are clearly far from capacity limits,” Anschober stressed at a press conference in Vienna.
Anschober: “I have to get off with these numbers”
It is “temporary good news that it has not risen,” emphasized the Health Minister about the new infections in recent days. However: “We have to accept these numbers,” Anschober said. “But it is not only about health protection, all this has a huge impact on our economic development,” warned the Minister of Health. “The higher the number of infections, the higher the unemployment rate threatens,” he said.
Corona traffic light: Tennengau turned orange
After the new traffic light, the Carinthian region of Hermagor is among the high-risk districts for the first time, due to a cluster that was created in the course of a herd of cattle. Neusiedl am See in Burgenland, Sankt Pölten Stadt, Mistelbach and Scheibbs in Lower Austria and Hallein in Salzburg have also been upgraded from yellow to orange. There was positive news for three districts: Kufstein in Tyrol was downgraded from orange to yellow. Eferding in Upper Austria and Deutschlandsberg are now green again instead of yellow.
Household groups dominate
At the moment 2.7 percent of infections in Austria that are related to a group of cases can be assigned to the education sector. This emerges from the current analysis of the epidemiologist from the Agency for Food Safety (AGES). Half of the infected people who can be assigned to the group have been infected at home since September 1. “Household groups continue to dominate,” said AGES chief epidemiologist Daniela Schmid. About half of the total cases can be assigned to groups.
(Source: SALZBURG24)
