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Currently, 1,983 people are in hospital treatment due to Corona, 437 of them in intensive care units.
From Sunday to Monday, slightly more than 2,400 new infections were reported in Austria – specifically 2,412. This is the highest Monday figure since mid-December. In hospitals, almost 2,000 covid patients had to be treated. There was also a significant increase in intensive care units. Since Sunday alone, 27 more infected people have been added.
The seven-day incidence per 100,000 population rose to 237.1 across Austria on Monday. Within the past week, 21,101 new infections had been recorded. On average, 3,014 people became infected with the coronavirus every day last week.
437 infected persons in intensive care units
On Monday, 437 infected people had to receive intensive medical care throughout Austria. However, the development varies greatly from region to region. The situation is particularly dramatic in Vienna – here there were even more patients at the beginning of the week than at the previous peak on November 21, 2020. At that time, 162 Covid sufferers were in intensive care units, on Monday there were 165 in the federal capital alone. Burgenland also approached the previous record value. On November 30, it recorded the most seriously ill patients since the beginning of the pandemic with 22. On Monday, there were already 16 patients in intensive care units in the easternmost province. In Vorarlberg, on the other hand, only two infected patients had to be treated in intensive care units on Monday. The most seriously ill patients so far were in the westernmost province on November 19, when there were 44 intensive care patients. Austria-wide the number of intensive care Covid patients had risen within the past week by a fifth, in total 73 patients were added.
Across Austria, 1,983 SARS-CoV-2-infected patients required hospital treatment on Monday. Since Sunday, 98 patients had been newly admitted. Within the past week, the increase was about 13 percent, or 224 sick people.
The numbers from the federal states
Burgenland: 73
Carinthia: 87
Lower Austria: 688
Upper Austria: 254
Salzburg: 157
Styria: 265
Tyrol: 197
Vorarlberg: 44
Vienna: 647
- sources: sozialministerium.at and ages.at
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