The value is not only above the average of the past seven days (2,225), but also significantly exceeds the 2,935 new infections last Wednesday. However, the Ministry of Health continued to see a stable situation.
According to a statement by the ministry, after two months of continuous declines in the number of new infections and hospital patients, the experts are currently expecting the infection situation to be largely stable. A slight fluctuation from day to day is “possible at any time”.
Downtrend to continue
The current report by the Corona Commission states: “The current forecast assumes a further downward trend in most of Austria. Both slight increases and slight decreases are possible in the forecast interval. A slight decrease in hospital occupancy can also be expected”.
Due to the increasing spread of virus variants BA.4 and BA.5 and a decrease in immune protection, according to many experts from the health department, the number of infections can be expected to increase again in the medium term. “These forecasts were already taken into account in the decision to relax the mask requirement,” it said.
The province with the highest seven-day incidence was Vienna with 266.4, followed by Lower Austria, Salzburg and Burgenland (204.1, 177.5 and 145.5 respectively). This was followed by Vorarlberg (131.5), Upper Austria (129.9), Tyrol (124.7), Carinthia (110.9) and Styria (104.9).
Six deaths since Tuesday
As of Wednesday there were 35,122 active cases in Austria, 528 more than the day before. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the authorities in Austria have recorded 4,255,871 confirmed cases. 4,202,091 people have recovered since the outbreak of the epidemic, and 3,194 were considered healthy again within the past 24 hours.
There have been six deaths since Tuesday, with a seven-day average of 5.6 per day. 39 deaths have been registered in the past seven days. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 18,658 lives in Austria since it broke out.
There were 469 people in the hospital, six fewer than on Tuesday. 43 people were cared for in intensive care units. This number did not change.
2,757 vaccinations were carried out on Tuesday. According to the data from the e-vaccination card, a total of 6,828,593 people had at least one vaccination. 5,846,586 people and thus 65.1 percent of Austrians have a valid vaccination protection.
Source: Nachrichten
