Record number on a Sunday: 5,933 new infections – 24 deaths

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In the past 24 hours, 5,933 new infections were reported – more than ever before on a Sunday. There are already 459 patients in the intensive care unit.

The figures for the federal states in detail:

Burgenland: 215
Carinthia: 195
Lower Austria: 1.370
Upper Austria: 1.608
Salzburg: 144
Styria: 752
Tyrol: 808
Vorarlberg: 319
Vienna: 522

After there was a new record number of new infections in Austria on Saturday, the number of new cases on Sunday – as always on the weekend – has decreased significantly. 5,933 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours. The number of people who died as a result of Covid-19 rose by 34 to 1,411 compared to the previous day, and the number of patients in intensive care units also increased significantly – by 27 to 459.

2,992 SARS-CoV-2 infected persons had to be treated in hospital on Sunday – a total of 14 fewer than on Saturday. However, the number of patients in intensive care units has increased significantly. In a week-on-week comparison, the number of patients undergoing hospital treatment rose by 54 percent – 1,948 needed such treatment last Sunday.

For the first time, there were more than 60,000 actively infected people in Austria on Sunday – according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, the total was 60,023. 153,153 people have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic. 91,719 are considered to have recovered.

Within one week the number of deaths has risen by a quarter. Since last Sunday, 281 people have died throughout Austria as a result of a Covid-19 infection.

On Sunday – as on all previous weekends – it became apparent that significantly fewer test results were reported. The exact number of tests registered in the past 24 hours was not yet available from the Ministry of Health. However, the decrease could be seen in the number of new infections.

Most new infections in the past 24 hours were again reported from Upper Austria – 1,608 were reported on Sunday. Lower Austria reported 1,370 new cases, Tyrol 808 and Styria 752 new infections. 522 new cases were reported in Vienna, 319 in Vorarlberg, 215 in Burgenland and 195 in Carinthia.