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In Austria, 1,747 new coronavirus infections were recorded. The Vienna City Councilor for Health Hacker explains that fake numbers have been actively brought to the media.
In Austria there is a new record for new coronavirus infections: 1,747 new infections were recorded from Friday to Saturday. That’s significantly more than the day before (1163) and beats Thursday’s previous record (1552). A total of 889 people have died, 734 are currently in hospital treatment, 133 of them in intensive care units.
Here’s how the new infections are spread across the federal states:
Burgenland: 25
Carinthia: 47
Lower Austria: 266
Upper Austria: 226
Salzburg: 159
Steiermark: 122
Tyrol: 225
Vorarlberg: 78
Vienna: 599
Vienna locates “absolute lie”
Initially there was confusion about the numbers on Saturday. Among other things, “Krone” and “Kurier” had reported 2317 new infections in the morning. The official dispatch of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health took place later than usual. The reason given was “technical problems in data collection in Vienna”.
The numbers circulating in the morning caused problems in Vienna and Lower Austria. Vienna has registered 599 new infections, as announced by the crisis team. Initially, the media reported a significantly higher number, that is, more than 800 new cases. A spokesman for Vienna’s Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) even spoke of a “direct lie” via Twitter. Even if you look at the raw data with duplicate entries, you will only get 661 new infections. He regretted learning that wrong numbers had been actively presented to the media, although he did not say who did it. The spokesman criticized that the policy was deliberately made out of people’s fears.
“Annoyance that contributes to the insecurity of the population”
Lower Austrian state health adviser Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig (SPÖ) also drew attention to a discrepancy between the number of new corona infections of state medical personnel and federal data reported by the media. Through a press spokesman, he criticized “the presentation of the figures from the Ministry of the Interior and Health.” On Saturday, state medical personnel reported 225 new infections, federal authorities initially reported 411.
The extreme difference in the representation of the numbers is a “nuisance that contributes to the uncertainty of the population,” said the spokesman for the State Councilor. Lower Austrian state medical staff report the correct numbers to Vienna every day at 8 a.m. The way the federal government comes up with the different numbers can be partly explained by the different records from the individual test stations, but in it is generally “difficult to understand”.
(Red./APA)
