Record increase: 403 new infections in only 24 hours!

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Thursday – 3 September 2020 – A worrying increase in corona infections was recorded in the last 24 hours: 403 new infections in just one day – 203 in Vienna alone.

Austria-wide. The number of new corona virus infections registered throughout Austria was 403 within the last 24 hours, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health on Thursday. In Vienna, 203 of the new cases, more than 50 percent of these were reported. In contrast, 351 people were reported to have recovered.

Currently 161 people are in hospital treatment due to the coronavirus, four more than yesterday, the number of intensive care patients decreased from 30 to 29 within one day. With a total of 735 deaths related to Covid-19, the number of deaths has increased by one person from yesterday to today. The number of positive test results rose to 28,372, and the number of actively infected patients rose to 3,466 on Thursday, up from 3,415 the day before.

In addition to the 203 new infections in Vienna, 60 new cases were registered in Lower Austria and 56 in Tyrol. From Styria, 30 detections were reported, 29 from Upper Austria and 12 from Salzburg. The increase in SARS-CoV-2 detections in Vorarlberg was only single-digit with nine, Carinthia with three and Burgenland with one.