The number of hospital patients rose to 1,807, 63 more than the previous day and 412 more than a week ago. There was also an increase from eleven to 199 people in the intensive care units.
25 registered deaths have been added since Thursday in connection with the virus. 131 victims were registered in the past seven days. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 14,192 lives in Austria so far. Almost two million infections have also been reported since February 2020. Of the 1,995,346 confirmed cases, 1,642,027 are considered recovered.
Burgenland was the only federal state to report almost no four-digit new infection numbers, there were 994 positive tests there. In Carinthia there were officially 2,665 infections, in Lower Austria 6,099, in Upper Austria 6,685 and in Salzburg 2,174. Styria reported 5,390 more infected people, Tyrol 3,310, Vorarlberg 1,653 and Vienna 7,359 cases.
The seven-day incidence across Austria is 2,564 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. A total of 681,638 PCR tests were registered within 24 hours. The positive rate was 5.3 percent, close to last week’s average of 4.9 percent.
28,346 people got a corona vaccination in Austria on Thursday. 6,162,402 people and thus 69 percent of the population have valid vaccinations. That is around 300,000 fewer than a week ago, since the maximum interval until the booster vaccination was reduced from nine to six months at the beginning of February and many of those affected did not get their partial vaccination in time.
At 75.1 percent, the proportion of valid vaccination certificates in the Burgenland population is six percent higher than in Austria as a whole. In Lower Austria, 71 percent of the population has valid vaccination protection, in Styria 70.2 percent. After Vienna (68), Tyrol (67.4), Carinthia (65.6), Salzburg (65.5) and Upper Austria (64.7), Vorarlberg brings up the rear with 64.6 percent.
Source: Nachrichten
