This emerges from the working document of the responsible commission. It is the first time since January that there are federal states that are not part of the maximum risk zone. Burgenland, Vorarlberg and Carinthia ended up further in the red. It should be noted that there is a clear decrease in the number of tests given the downward trend everywhere.
Since January 13, the Corona traffic light has always been red in all federal states. At that time, Styria, Carinthia and Burgenland were the last to be hit by the Omicron wave. Since then, the highest risk has prevailed everywhere in the country, even when the criteria for the risk number relevant to the coloring were relaxed.
Burgenland clearly in the red area
100 is the borderline between very high and high risk. Styria even remained relatively well below this mark this week with 76.2. Salzburg, Vienna, Lower Austria and Tyrol also ended up in the orange area with some certainty. Upper Austria was lucky with 99.0, unlucky Carinthia with 100.1. Burgenland is clearly in the red zone with 144.8.
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The raw incidence of cases there is even lower than in Vienna, which brings up the rear. But since other criteria also fall into the risk figure, the federal capital has a significantly better value overall. It is questionable whether Vienna actually has the most cases. Because the federal capital is still by far the most tested. Most recently, more than 67,000 tests per 100,000 inhabitants. The national average was just under 38,400.
Of course, the effect of the test quotas, which were ordered by the federal government, can be felt strongly in Vienna. Last week there were more than 92,700 tests per 100,000 inhabitants. At that time, 63 percent of those who tested positive were still asymptomatic at this point. That number dropped to 57 percent. With its intensive testing strategy, Vienna aimed to identify infected people as early as possible so that they could not trigger new chains of infection before symptoms broke out.
Gmünd district with the highest incidence
However, it is probably not only due to the decline in testing that the number of cases is falling. In the federal states, a drop of between 33 percent (Vienna) and 48 percent (Styria) was measured. In the particularly vulnerable group of under-65s, a significant decline of 32 percent on the national average has been observed. Overall, this age cohort accounts for 15 percent of all cases. For comparison: 36 percent fall into the group of 40-64 year olds.
While ski resorts were long decried as hotspots, the picture has now changed – probably also due to the epidemic. The two districts with the lowest incidences are Zell am See and Kitzbühel. If you subtract the small town of Rust, Gmünd in Lower Austria is the district with the most new infections over the past week.
Source: Nachrichten
