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The second corona wave hits Austria’s nursing homes and nursing homes much harder than the first. In many European countries, nursing homes are proving to be a deadly weak point.
12:54 pm, November 19, 2020
More than half of all Covid victims in households (323 out of 607) were registered in the last 40 days alone. In Burgenland, 100 percent of deaths from corona in households were recorded in the period from October 1 to November 12, in Lower Austria it was 91 percent and in Upper Austria 82 percent.
Overall, as of November 12, 38 percent (607 dead) of all crown victims (1608) in nursing homes and senior citizens needed to be reported, 323 of them only in the period between October 1 and November 12. at Burgenland the 15 deaths in nursing homes were due to the second wave. In households in Lower Austria, 81 of 89 corona deaths (91 percent) have died since October, in Upperösterreich it was 62 out of 76 (82 percent).
Vorarlberg currently has the lowest corona mortality in households at 27 percent (four of a total of 15 deaths since the start of the pandemic). In Tyrol, Salzburg and the Steiermark this proportion is between 32 and 38 percent, in Vienna it is 43 percent (75 of 174 deaths). Therefore, the Austrian average is 53 percent.
According to this statistic I only have Carinthia So far no deaths from corona have been recorded in homes. However, that has State of Carinthia On November 6 alone, eight deaths were reported, all attributable to nursing homes. In Carinthia there were even a large number of clusters in the field of facilities for retirement and care.
The deaths could have been prevented
1,150 deaths per crown (as of November 12) were over 75 years old, 520 of them in the 75-84 age group and 630 over 85. The total number of deaths per crown has now risen to 1,800. “Especially in nursing homes and nursing homes, which are country-specific, if protective measures could have prevented many deaths. Unfortunately, here many provincial governors did nothing, “he criticized. NEOS-Sozialsprecher Gerald Loacker.
“It is deeply saddened to see how many nursing home deaths can be attributed to corona infections. Obviously more needs to be done for nursing home corona protection measures and the money the federal states get for care must be liquidated The objectives and quality criteria must be linked, “demanded Loacker.
