“There is a stagnation in the reported number of cases. There are no substantial increases in any age group and in any federal state. The wastewater signal also currently suggests a trend towards constant development,” said the forecast published on Wednesday.
The consortium identifies the weather as an uncertainty factor: Changed weather conditions “could, however, lead to seasonal effects driving the infection process in the forecast period”. In the variants, the proportion of mutations BQ.1, BQ.1.1 and BF.7 continues to increase. However, this growth slowed down somewhat in the past week and is therefore “not yet relevant” for the forecast period.
The occupancy forecast assumes a slight decrease in hospitalizations: For the last forecast day, November 23, between 696 and a maximum of 1,137 beds should be occupied by Covid patients, according to the consortium. As of Tuesday morning, 1,190 infected people were being treated in local hospitals, 78 of them in intensive care units. The number of intensive care patients increases with the last forecast day on November 23 in the worst case to 96, the average is 69 intensive care patients.
On Tuesday, 4,627 new infections with the coronavirus were reported, according to figures from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). That was above the average of the past seven days, with 4,185 new cases added every day. The seven-day incidence was 324.5 cases per 100,000 population. The number of laboratory-confirmed active cases fell by 44 and now stands at 42,771. Since the beginning of the pandemic there have already been 5,477,350 confirmed cases in Austria.
26 deaths have been registered in the past seven days. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 21,059 lives in Austria since it broke out. 233.3 infected people have already died per 100,000 inhabitants. As of Wednesday morning, there were 1,130 infected people in the hospital, 60 fewer than the day before. 73 people were cared for in intensive care units. That number has dropped by five since yesterday and has dropped by 23 patients in a week.
Source: Nachrichten
