A week ago, with 27,411, there were only 112 more cases at the beginning of the week. Across Austria, 350,419 people were shown to be currently infectious, which is almost four percent of the total population and almost as many infected people as Graz and Villach have inhabitants together.
Due to the current record number of new infections – the seven-day average of daily cases is 32,664 – the hospital numbers are also increasing again. On Monday, 1,955 Covid 19 patients needed hospital care across Austria, 59 more than on Sunday. 202 people are being cared for in intensive care units, one more seriously ill than the day before.
The increase in a weekly comparison is particularly evident. A total of 449 patients, or 29.8 percent, were added within seven days. There is also an increase in the number of seriously ill patients. On Monday, 24 more Covid 19 patients were in intensive care units than a week ago, an increase of 13.5 percent.
Highest seven-day incidence in Tyrol
A year ago – Austria was still in the third hard lockdown at the time – fewer Covid 19 patients had to be cared for in hospitals. A total of 1,560 infected people were in the hospital at the time, but 290 of them were in intensive care units more than today. A year ago, almost no people had been vaccinated, only 2.9 percent of the total population had received a first dose. Today, 75.8 percent of the population have been vaccinated for the first time. New infections a year ago were a fraction of those reported today – the 24-hour tally of new cases as of February 7, 2021 totaled 1,317.
The number of deaths caused by the pandemic was also significantly lower, with 8,012 people dying in the first year of the pandemic. Now it is 78 percent more. By Monday, the Covid 19 pandemic had already claimed 14,246 lives. There have been 14 more deaths since Sunday alone, and 143 deaths in the past week. 159.5 people per 100,000 inhabitants have already died from or with Covid-19.
The seven-day incidence on Monday was 2,559.7 cases per 100,000 population. The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence is Tyrol with 2,925.3, followed by Vorarlberg, Styria and Upper Austria (2,784.8, 2,712.7 and 2,673.8 respectively). It is followed by Salzburg (2,644.3), Carinthia (2,643.9), Vienna (2,457.2), Lower Austria (2,294.7) and Burgenland (1,955.3). Since the beginning of the pandemic there have already been 2,084,227 confirmed cases in Austria. 1,719,562 people are considered to have recovered.
Few vaccinations on Sunday
As always, there was less testing at the weekend than during the week. A total of 505,664 rapid PCR and antigen tests were registered in the past 24 hours. Of these, 419,587 were meaningful PCR tests, 6.5 percent were positive. On average, more than 682,000 PCR analyzes were carried out every day in the past week. The positive rate was 4.8 percent.
Only 8,852 vaccinations were carried out in Austria on Sunday. According to the data from the e-vaccination card, a total of 6,768,262 people have already received at least one vaccination. Exactly 6,185,208 people and thus 69.2 percent of Austrians have a valid vaccination.
The protection rate (valid vaccination certificate) is highest in Burgenland at 75.5 percent. In Lower Austria 71.3 percent of the population have a valid vaccination protection, in Styria 70.2 percent. After Vienna (68.2), Tyrol (67.7), Carinthia (66.1), Salzburg (65.6) and Vorarlberg (65.1), Upper Austria brings up the rear with 65 percent.
Source: Nachrichten
