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But the losers in the situation are also the people who are urgently waiting for elective interventions like hip or knee replacement operations that need to be postponed.
“We urgently call on the population to constantly support the containment of the pandemic through their behavior. Despite all regional differences and in awareness of the fact that in some federal states the situation is already significantly more tense in others, the prevailing situation across Austria is Intensive care units are very concerned because they are increasingly reaching the limits of their capacities. “
More than double
Austrian intensive care doctors and nurses are concerned that even ten days after the current Package of measures to contain the pandemic, there is no change in trend in sight with the increasing number of infections.
In the past two weeks, the number of hospitalized patients has more than doubled from 1,867 to 3,811, and the number of Covid-19 patients requiring intensive care increased from 265 to 546.
