[ad_1]
“The excessive number of new infections is also increasingly reflected in hospitals: 491 sick people are already being treated in hospitals, representing a 25 percent increase in one week. 90 of those hospitalized need intensive care.” this number has increased by a fifth in the last seven days. 49 of them are in intensive care in Vienna, “commented Health Minister Rudolf Anschober on the current development.
In a 24-hour comparison, the increase in hospital patients is 22 people or 4.7 percent, with two intensive care patients added during this period.
Vienna with 308 new infections
In the last 24 hours, in which 16,586 PCR tests were recorded, Vienna was also hit mainly with 308 new infections, again more than 50 percent of the total number. This is distributed among the other federal states as follows: 92 in Upper Austria, 68 in Tyrol, 45 in Lower Austria and 33 in Styria. In Burgenland there were 23 people who tested positive, 19 in Vorarlberg, 14 in Carinthia and seven in Salzburg.
The 16,586 PCR tests are distributed quite differently between individual federal states, with 6,896 there were nearly 7,000 in Vienna, but only 503 from Salzburg and 321 from Tyrol were reported, while in Vorarlberg and Burgenland, both behind the two in terms of population. Other Federal States: 1,037 or 833 tests were reported in the last 24 hours. . 1,586,578 tests have been carried out for the corona virus in Austria since the outbreak of the pandemic.
