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It has never been a Sunday since the beginning of the pandemic: how “Today”learned, 1,672 positive tests were reported in the last 24 hours.
After a new dismal record was set on Saturday with 1,747 new corona cases, it now continues with an all-time high for a Sunday. Since there are traditionally fewer tests on the weekend, the figures shown are always lower on Sundays and Mondays. However, compared to the previous week, the trend is also very upward. There were 896 new cases last Sunday. This week the situation reaches a critical point: in the last 24 hours there have been 1,672 new corona virus infections in Austria, 431 new cases and three deaths in Vienna alone. A further increase in positive test results was recorded in all nine federal states. The numbers in detail:
➤ Burgenland: 44
➤ Carinthia: 53
➤ Lower Austria: 356
➤ Upper Austria: 274
➤ Salzburg: 182
➤ Steiermark: 86
➤ Tyrol: 167
➤ Vorarlberg: 79
➤ Vienna: 431
As of today (October 18, 2020, 9:30 am), according to the Interior Ministry, so far 64,806 people across the country have contracted Covid-19. 893 people died as a result of the infection and 49,561 have recovered.
Currently 742 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus and 135 of them are in intensive care units.
Why the numbers on the board may differ
The AGES Covid-19 dashboard obtains its data exclusively from the Epidemiological Registry (EMS) and is updated once a day at 2 p.m. The EMS is the official registry that district authorities and laboratories enter.
At the Ministry of the Interior, however, the figures are published as part of the daily videoconference of the state crisis and disaster management at the Operations and Coordination Center (EKC). These figures may include cases that are not yet registered with EMS.
