Thus, in the almost 22 months of the pandemic in this country, 13,538 people have already died as a result of an infection. The number of infected people in the hospital fell slightly on Tuesday. There were still 1,705 Covid-19 patients in hospitals across Austria.
That was 56 less than the day before. 477 seriously ill people are in intensive care units, one less than Monday.
Salzburg reported the most new infections since Monday with 621 cases. Salzburg had only caused criticism on Monday with the announcement that the test stations would be closed on the holidays. According to the state, it is not possible to take an antigen or PCR test at the 14 test stations of the Red Cross in the state of Salzburg on five days – December 25th and 26th and January 1st, 2nd and 6th .
Vienna reported 345 new infections on Tuesday, Upper Austria 338 and Tyrol 332. Lower Austria recorded 253 more infected people, Styria 241 and Vorarlberg 208. 133 cases were registered in Carinthia and 57 in Burgenland.
Source: Nachrichten
