Pandemic: so far more than 300,000 people infected with corona in Austria



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Since the beginning of the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected 300,689 times in people in Austria. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, 3,444 new infections were added in the last 24 hours. So far 3,757 people have died from the corona virus or the corona virus in Austria and 249,441 have recovered.

There was a further decrease with 47,491 active cases. For the first time in a month, there were 49,819 fewer than 50,000 on Friday. On Saturday, 3,877 people with Covid-19 were in hospital treatment and 646 of them in intensive care units. While there was a further decrease in hospital patients (Friday: 3,980), the number of people in intensive care units increased slightly by four compared to Friday. The number of newly recovered people, 5,666, was again significantly higher than that of the newly infected.

Most of the new infections in the last 24 hours occurred in Lower Austria with 647, followed by Styria with 580 and Vienna with 569. Upper Austria had 559 new infections, 397 were reported in Tyrol, 231 in Salzburg, 221 in Vorarlberg, 154 in Carinthia from Burgenland 86.

Since Friday, another 106 people in Austria have died from Covid-19. By far the majority of deaths were reported in Upper Austria at 34, in Carinthia there were 19. The southernmost federal state has by far the highest value on this with a seven-day incidence of 20.0 per 100,000 population for deaths by or with Crown Relationship in Austria. For comparison: despite the highest absolute number, Upper Austria had a seven-day incidence of 12.8 deaths. Styria reported 13 deaths and a seven-day incidence of 10.2. All the other federal states recorded fewer than ten deaths per crown: Lower Austria, Tyrol and Salzburg eight each, Vorarlberg and Vienna six each, and Burgenland four. The seven-day incidence of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in Austria was 8.3; In addition to the aforementioned federal states, Burgenland (10.5) also had two digits before the decimal point. Salzburg had a seven-day incidence of 9.1, Vorarlberg 8.3, Tirol 6.5, Lower Austria 5.4, and Vienna 2.8.

In the case of new infections, the seven- and 14-day incidences are still too high, although here too a decrease is largely evident. Across Austria, the new infection rate per 100,000 population was 281.2 in seven days, down from 294.9 the day before. The 14-day incidence in Germany reached 659.8. According to the federal states, Salzburg currently has a seven-day incidence of 389.9 after 417.1 and a 14-day incidence of 947.9. Carinthia follows with 357.4 after 398.4 (seven-day incidence) and 872.6 (14-day incidence). The lowest values ​​were found in Vienna with 209.0 after 222.4 (7-day incidence) and 439.1 (14-day incidence).

The number of registered PCR tests was only 20,053, almost half of them, 9,231, came from Vienna. The positive rate, that is, the proportion of positive test results out of the total number of reported results, increased from 13.9 to just under 17.2 percent in 24 hours.



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