This emerges from the working document of the panel. The number of infections is increasing nationwide, but the southern federal states are now catching up. The risk number 862 still shows Burgenland as the “best” federal state, but it would have to be below 100 in order to at least get into the orange sector of high risk. The latter currently seems illusory in some federal states, for example if you look at the risk figure of almost 3,753 in Tyrol.
The countries that were the first to slide into the omicron wave now have the lowest increase in the number of infections. In Salzburg, the infections have only increased by 26 percent in the past two weeks, in Tyrol by 40, in Vienna by 49. The federal states of Styria, Carinthia and Burgenland, which got off lightly for a long time, have an increase of 85, 81 and 79 percent, respectively.
27 percent without symptoms
It is also interesting to look at the districts in this regard. There are two this week in which the 14-day trend is declining and these are two ski regions where high numbers of cases were recorded early on, namely Kitzbühel and St. Johann im Pongau.
Quite a lot is tested, especially in the East. Vienna is the leader with a good 150,000 tests per 100,000 inhabitants in the past week, followed by Burgenland (127,000) and Lower Austria (126,000). Vorarlberg has the fewest tests with a good 72,000.
The number of clarified cases is now low, which is only 32 percent in the Austrian average. Only 27 percent of the infections discovered are without symptoms.
Source: Nachrichten
