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In Austria, intensive care beds are filling up with Covid patients again. In 24 hours, the Ministry of Health reported 3,498 new infections with the coronavirus and 41 additional intensive care beds. A significant jump from 463 to a total of 504 intensive care patients, as “Oe24” writes. In one week, the number of Covid intensive care patients increased by 27.9 percent.
The highest occupancy level of intensive care beds with corona patients was at the end of November with 709.
The city of Vienna alone accounts for more than half of the additional intensive care beds that have been occupied since Friday. There, the urban crisis team reported 1,068 new infections in one day on Saturday. The head of the intensive care units at the Vienna General Hospital, Thomas Staudinger, spoke of a situation “on the border that is too dramatic.”
British Mutation Trigger for Rise?
For the doctor, it is clear: the British mutation is to blame for the rapid increase in corona numbers: “It is now clear that the probability of a course of serious disease has increased by more than 60 percent. And what we’re seeing is that these patients just get to the intensive care unit much, much faster. ”Due to a shortage of beds, operations that could be planned had to be postponed, which under normal circumstances would have been processed as much as possible. fast as possible.
Due to the precarious situation, the “Easter break for eastern Austria” will apply from April 1. A brief closure with night-out restrictions, the closure of stores with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies, and the closure of “body-friendly services.”
A little more than a million of the 8.8 million inhabitants have received their first dose of vaccination so far, almost 400,000 have complete vaccine protection. (coat)
Published: 03/27/2021, 1:56 PM
Last updated: 27.03.2021, 22 minutes ago
