This value is above Tuesday’s value (5,588 new cases) and also well above the average of the past seven days with 7,198 cases. In addition, 24 people have died from or as a result of Covid-19. The seven-day incidence was 561.1 cases per 100,000 population.
The province with the highest seven-day incidence is still Burgenland with 1,118.5, followed by Lower Austria, Vienna and Upper Austria (711.7, 696.1 and 485.9 respectively). Next come Vorarlberg (457.9), Carinthia (443), Styria (412.3), Salzburg (410.5) and Tyrol (312.5).
In absolute numbers, the order is somewhat different: According to the authorities, most new infections were documented in the federal capital Vienna with 2,451 new cases. This is followed by Lower Austria (2,088 new infections), Upper Austria (1,189 new infections), Styria (919 new infections), Burgenland (378 new infections), Tyrol (372 new infections), Salzburg (336 new infections), Carinthia (272 new infections) and Vorarlberg (234 new infections) .
Currently 86,000 patients
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in February 2020, 4,122,797 cases of infection have been documented in Austria. 86,280 people are currently suffering from it. Within the past 24 hours, 10,412 people were considered recovered.
A total of 18,100 people in Austria have died from or as a result of Covid-19 since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, it has recently become known that many more people in this country have died from or with Corona, and numbers from the federal states are being reported successively due to a data comparison. The dashboard of the Agency for Health and Food Security (AGES) recorded 19,487 deaths on Wednesday morning.
Situation in hospitals stable
There are currently 1,452 Covid patients in Austria’s hospitals. That’s 37 fewer than yesterday, Tuesday, and 424 fewer than a week ago. Just as many seriously ill people as yesterday, 111 people, are being cared for in intensive care units. That number hasn’t changed since yesterday, down 27 week-on-week.
A total of 237,582 rapid PCR and antigen tests were reported in the past 24 hours, including 204,091 of the more meaningful PCR tests. The positive rate of the PCR tests was 4 percent. This 24-hour value is slightly above the average for the past week, with an average of 3.8 percent of the PCR tests being positive.
Upper Austria continues to bring up the rear when it comes to vaccination
As for vaccination progress: 4,011 vaccinations were carried out on Tuesday. There were 149 first, 461 second and 3,401 third stitches. According to the data from the e-vaccination pass, a total of 6,130,358 people (68.3 percent of Austrians) have valid vaccination protection.
The protection rate (valid vaccination certificate) is highest in Burgenland at 74.6 percent. In Lower Austria 70.5 percent of the population have a valid vaccination protection, in Styria 69 percent. After Vienna (67.3), Tyrol (66.2), Carinthia (65.1), Salzburg (64.4) and Vorarlberg (64.3), Upper Austria brings up the rear with 64 percent.
decline is slowing
The Corona Prognosis Consortium gives a weekly assessment of the infection rate in Austria: The downward trend in new infections is still there, albeit at a slightly slower pace. “In the medium term”, however, the experts expect an end to the decline in the number of cases, as can be seen from the update on Wednesday. Infections should reach a constant and not as low level as in the past two summers.
The case trend has continued to decline, although the rate of decline has continued to moderate slightly. The prognosis assumes a gradual transition to a constant case development”, is what the experts from the Vienna University of Technology, MedUni Vienna and Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG) say specifically. With a view to the medium-term future, it was emphasized that the currently dampening seasonal effects are counteracted by the progressive decrease in acquired immune protection against new or re-infection.
Higher numbers than expected in summer 2021
In addition, the easing that took place on April 16 (among other things, the end of the mask requirement in most retail outlets and at events, no restrictions for gastronomy) have now had their full effect. “Due to these developments, the fall in the number of cases will end in the medium term. It can therefore not be assumed that the number of infections will fall to the levels of summer 2020 or 2021,” it said. In this regard, the documents also pointed out that the effective number of reproductions continued to increase slightly in a weekly comparison (from 0.85 on April 17 to 0.88 on April 24).
For the near future, the experts on the panel assume the following situation: for next Wednesday (May 4), 4,532 to 7,461 new infections are expected in Austria within 24 hours, the point estimate as a kind of mean value is 5,654.
Source: Nachrichten
