It is interesting that only the representative of the Federal Chancellery abstained from this recommendation.
The Commission justified the desire with the increasing number of cases and the increasing burden in the area of normal wards in the hospitals. Therefore, the nationwide reintroduction of preventive measures is recommended.
The wide openings in connection with the new Omikron sub-variant, which is currently taking command in Austria, make the Corona traffic light shine bright red again. While the numbers have tended to decline slightly in the past few weeks, the 14-day trend is now pointing upwards again, in some cases strongly. The system risk at the normal wards is also increasing, according to the working document of the responsible commission available to the APA.
unfavorable development
The development is unfavorable compared to the previous week. While Vienna was already close to leaving the maximum risk zone, things are now looking different again. The risk number used to determine coloring has gone up everywhere. A week ago it was 169 for the federal territory, but it is now almost 215. In order to at least get into the second highest risk zone “Orange”, the 100 should not be exceeded.
Vienna remains clearly the best federal state and currently has a value of 122 for the risk number, which, in addition to pure infections, also takes into account parameters such as vaccination status and patient age. Last week the value was 105. Stable bottom – this time with a value of 363 – is Tyrol. The increase in cases in the past two weeks was particularly strong in Burgenland at 22 percent, comparatively the lowest in the federal capital at four percent.
The situation is also developing relatively unfavorably on the normal wards of the hospitals. Burgenland is already in the double-digit range for Covid-specific occupancy. The percentage is likely to increase again by around 50 percent to 15 percent in the coming weeks. In all other federal states, the number of Covid cases in hospitals will also increase, including in intensive care units, albeit to a manageable extent there.
Largest part of asymptomatic cases in Vienna
The other parameters show hardly any abnormalities compared to the weeks before. Furthermore, the majority of asymptomatic cases are discovered in Vienna. In two out of three of the infections found in the federal capital, there are no typical symptoms. In no other federal state is there a value that exceeds one third. As usual, tests are mainly carried out in the east. In Vienna there are almost 107,000 tests per 100,000 inhabitants. Burgenland and Lower Austria follow relatively closely behind. It’s also a tradition that people in the West don’t enjoy testing. Tyrol, Salzburg and Vorarlberg bring up the rear in this ranking.
Lowest incidence: Villach, Steyr-Land, Linz-Stadt
This time, a Lower Austrian district, namely Scheibbs, has the highest pure case incidence. The city of Villach has the lowest incidence, followed by Steyr-Stadt and Linz-Stadt. Only eight districts or regions have a declining 14-day trend.
Source: Nachrichten
