All-time high so far was 17,006 a week ago as the omicron wave picked up speed. The health and interior ministries announced detailed figures for early Wednesday afternoon due to data cleansing.
“The pandemic is not over,” emphasized Nehammer in the Council of Ministers. Almost 30,000 new infections would be almost 80 percent more than on Tuesday and also a lone record for a Wednesday: Last week the epidemiological reporting system (EMS) reported 18,427 new infections, on the Wednesday before 10,725. According to Nehammer, the 30,000 new infections are “an alarmingly high number at first”. On the other hand, because the omicron variant of the virus also has to be reassessed, the calculations would be “right on target”, also with regard to hospital occupancy.
The massive increase was already apparent in the figures published in the EMS in the morning, where 31,070 new infections were reported from Tuesday to Wednesday. However, it was still raw data, as the Ministry of Health emphasized on Wednesday when asked by APA. The more reliable infection reports from the federal states, which had been corrected for duplicate reports, were not expected until the early afternoon.
Basically, more new infections are reported on Wednesday than on other days of the week. One of the reasons for this is that the results of most of the PCR tests carried out in the schools are included in the reporting system on this day.
However, the Ministry of Health emphasized in the morning that the raw data already indicated an increase in the number of cases. Due to the data cleansing, the publication of the figures on Wednesday is now taking longer. The ministry assumes that it will be around 2 p.m.
Source: Nachrichten
