Highest corona value so far: over 1200 new infections – Coronavirus –

A new record of 1,209 new confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections in 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m.) in Austria meant a four-digit increase on Thursday for the third time: the weekly average was 900 per day.

The number of people actively suffering from the disease increased again: with 9,930 people and thus almost 10,000, it grew by almost a fifth in a week.

1,058 new infections were reported on Saturday and 1,028 on Wednesday yesterday, the average of the last seven days was 910 new infections daily. The number of deaths related to SARS-CoV-2 increased by eight to 838 people. The number of hospitalizations has dropped in the last 24 hours: 399 people were in normal hospital wards, 19 less than on Wednesday. However, the number of intensive care patients has risen, from 100 to 107 on Thursday, according to the latest transmission from the Ministry of Health and Interior.

21,762 PCR tests were recorded in the last 24 hours, 8,310 of them in Vienna, where, with 613 new infections, more than half of the SARS-CoV-2 cases were registered, which means that just over seven per 100 of the tests were positive. With 169 cases, Lower Austria is still ahead of Upper Austria with 149 cases in one day. The remaining federal states: 95 new infections in Tyrol, 50 in Salzburg, 43 in Styria and 41 cases in Vorarlberg. There were 31 cases in Carinthia and 18 in Burgenland.

On Thursday, the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) noted the importance of weekly viewing rather than daily viewing: “7-day number of cases, 7-day incidence, number of new clusters within a week calendar, cases with source clarified “it is necessary to be able to make statements about the epidemiological situation.” The communication of updated data is not convenient in this regard, “AGES wrote.

Until now, weekly numbers in Austria, unlike other European countries, have not been available daily to this extent, only with the introduction of the Corona traffic light in September they were available at least once a week. In addition, data from the crisis team of the Ministry of the Interior and the board of the Ministry of Health are circulating. Its operation was taken over by AGES on Tuesday, and there is now data from the Epidemiological Registry Registries (EMS), which means that the number of active Covid infections increased by almost 2,000 to 11,274 compared to the “old” panel. . Because here not all healthy people have been reported as cured. Therefore, a weekly review of the pandemic is difficult. In Germany, on the other hand, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has been providing these numerical values ​​in a “RKI Daily Management Report”, together with current data.

Germany also faces very high crown numbers. In light of the high rate of new infections, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has warned of the uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in Germany. It is “possible that we see more than 10,000 new cases a day and the virus is spreading uncontrollably,” RKI President Lothar Wieler said in Berlin on Thursday. The number of new infections in one day had risen to more than 4,000 cases, after nearly 3,000 new cases on Wednesday.

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