However, the Monday numbers are always lower than the weekly average. In the afternoon, the ministries reported 4,625 new infections within 24 hours. In addition, 48 other fatalities were registered. 661 seriously ill patients had to be treated in intensive care units – ten more than on Sunday.
Seven-day incidence drops to 574
The corona numbers were only published shortly before 4 p.m. after problems with the epidemiological reporting system (EMS). In the EMS, the corona test results from all over Austria are collected centrally, already in mid-November it threatened to collapse due to overload with the high number of cases of the fourth wave.
The 4,625 new infections within 24 hours are well below the average of the previous week – 7,328 more infected people were added every day. On Monday there were 103,126 confirmed active cases across Austria. The seven-day incidence decreased to 574.2.
661 Intensivpatienten
In the intensive care units there was a new high for the year 2021. 661 seriously ill patients have to be cared for at the beginning of the week. So far there have only been more in the second wave a year ago. On November 25, 2020, 709 Covid 19 patients were treated on ICUs. The number of infected people treated in the hospital rose again on Monday. 3,107 people have to be treated with Covid 19, 78 more than the day before.
Walter Hasibeder, President of the Society for Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine (ÖGARI), expects a decrease in the number of patients in intensive care in a week, he said in the Ö1 morning journal of ORF on Monday. There will only be real relaxation when only ten percent of the intensive care places are occupied by Covid patients, currently 30 percent.
Source: Nachrichten
