3,293 new infections were reported from Wednesday to Thursday, which is below the average of 3,550 over the past seven days. The seven-day incidence fell from 297.2 to 276.7 cases per 100,000 people, according to the ministries. Fewer patients also had to be treated in hospital for SARS-CoV-2. There was only a slight increase in the intensive care units.
There are currently 663 people with a corona infection in the hospital, 38 fewer than yesterday. 58 people are being cared for in intensive care units. That number has increased by four since yesterday but has fallen by twelve patients in a week. However, there were eight deaths related to Covid-19. 37 deaths have been recorded in the past seven days. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 18,328 lives in Austria since it broke out, according to AGES 19,848 fatalities were counted.
The number of actively infected people fell by 1,468 cases to 51,037. The positive rate of the PCR tests is now 2.9 percent, which means a slight increase from yesterday’s 2.2 percent. A total of 135,910 rapid PCR and antigen tests were registered in the past 24 hours. Most of them – namely 113,448 – were meaningful PCR tests.
The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence is currently still Vienna with 367.5, followed by Lower Austria, Burgenland and Vorarlberg (314, 281.6 and 245 respectively). Then comes Carinthia (239.8), Salzburg (235.5), Upper Austria (232.4), Tyrol (219.7) and Styria (218.4).
More vaccinations were carried out again on Wednesday. 4,371 stitches were administered – 155 were first stitches, 360 second stitches and 3,856 third stitches. According to the data from the e-vaccination card, a total of 6.8 million people have already received at least one vaccination. Almost six million people and thus 66.7 percent of Austrians have a valid vaccination.
The protection rate (valid vaccination certificate) is highest in Burgenland at 73.1 percent. In Lower Austria 69.1 percent of the population have a valid vaccination protection, in Styria 67.5 percent. After Vienna (65.5), Tyrol (64.5), Carinthia (63.6), Vorarlberg (62.9) and Salzburg (62.7), Upper Austria brings up the rear with 62.4 percent.
There have already been 4.2 million confirmed cases in Austria since the beginning of the pandemic. 4.1 people have recovered since the outbreak of the epidemic, and 4,753 were considered healthy again within the past 24 hours.
Source: Nachrichten
