There were also 56 other Covid deaths. The bed occupancy in the intensive care units rose again slightly after a significant decrease in the previous week. 573 seriously ill patients are treated, five more on a daily basis, but 88 fewer than seven days ago. A total of 2,451 infected people are in the hospital.
Fixed technical issues
After problems with the epidemiological reporting system (EMS), the coronavirus case numbers for Vienna and Styria were missing for publication on Sunday. For Styria, 433 cases were submitted on Monday lunchtime, in Vienna there were 486 reports of positive tests from Saturday to Sunday, according to an APA query in the office of City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ).
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health emphasized that the technical problem had been resolved. The EMS is constantly being further developed and improved in cooperation with internal and external experts.
769 new cases in Upper Austria
From Sunday to Monday there were 45 more reported infections in Burgenland, 269 in Carinthia and 637 in Lower Austria. There were 769 positive test results in Upper Austria, 90 in Salzburg and 335 in Styria. Tyrol reported 281 new infections, Vorarlberg 337 and Vienna 488.
With 56 reported deaths within 24 hours, the number of victims remained high and averaged over the past seven days. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 13,218 lives in Austria so far.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there were 1,232,204 confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Austria by Monday morning. 1,154,192 people have recovered since the outbreak of the epidemic. As of Monday there were 64,794 active cases in Austria.
More than 37,000 vaccinations on Sunday
According to the data in the e-vaccination pass, a total of 6,475,272 people in Austria received at least one vaccination. 6,119,517 people and thus 68.5 percent of the population have valid vaccination protection.
Of the 37,408 vaccinations on Sunday, 3,993 were first stitches, that is 10.7 percent. A total of 61,409 first vaccinations were carried out in the previous week. With 25,029 third stitches on Sunday, more than two thirds (66.9 percent) of all vaccinations carried out were so-called boosters.
Source: Nachrichten
