It is also significantly higher than the value from Saturday last week, when 2,621 new infections were reported. Four more deaths were added within 24 hours. The seven-day incidence was 263.8 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Health and Interior Ministry. As of Saturday, there were 43,273 active cases, up 1,723 from the day before. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,288,427 cases have been confirmed in Austria. Since then, 4,226,460 people have recovered, and 2,380 were considered healthy again within the past 24 hours.
Four deaths related to Covid-19 have been added since Friday, with a seven-day average of 3.6 per day. A total of 25 Covid deaths have been registered in the past seven days. According to this data, the pandemic has now claimed 18,694 deaths in Austria. Since then, 208.2 people per 100,000 inhabitants have died of or with Covid-19. On Friday, 19,967 Covid deaths were already noted on the AGES dashboard, which still shows some of the numbers that differ from the current corona situation.
35 patients in intensive care
There were 473 people in the hospital on Saturday, as many as were reported yesterday. 35 people were cared for in intensive care units, and this number has not changed since Friday either, within a week it fell by twelve patients.
In the past 24 hours, 56,975 rapid PCR and antigen tests were reported, of which 50,888 were PCR tests with a strikingly high positive rate of 8.1 percent. On average, 4.9 percent of the PCR tests in the past week were positive. All in all, there are now 243,134,319 corona tests carried out.
662 new cases in Upper Austria
Vienna recorded 1,309 new confirmed corona cases, 883 in Lower Austria and 662 in Upper Austria. 348 new infections were reported from Styria, 290 from Salzburg, 202 from Vorarlberg, 196 from Tyrol, 149 from Carinthia and 108 from Burgenland.
3,837 vaccinations were carried out across Austria on Friday, including 190 first bites. According to the data from the e-vaccination card, a total of 6,829,856 people received at least one vaccination. 5,722,024 people and thus 63.7 percent of the people in Austria have valid vaccination protection.
Source: Nachrichten
