In the past 24 hours, according to figures from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior (as of 9:30 a.m. Sunday), 159 new infections with the coronavirus have been recorded, more than the average of the past seven days (125) and more than twice as many as last Sunday’s 75. The seven-day incidence of infections per 100,000 inhabitants is also on the rise, approaching the ten-case threshold at 9.8 cases.
Thus, 2,000 Corona cases were active in Austria on Sunday, 84 more than on Saturday. The number of people recovered since the start of the pandemic rose by 75 to 638,889 in the past 24 hours. There have been no other deaths from or with Covid-19 since Saturday. The seven-day average was two Corona deaths daily, with a total of 14 deaths in the past seven days. Since the pandemic began, 10,723 people have died in Austria from or with Covid-19. There have been 120 SARS-CoV-2-related deaths per 100,000 population so far.
The number of hospital patients with Covid-19 decreased by three in the past 24 hours to 102 on Sunday, of whom 39 were in intensive care units, down by four from yesterday and down by five from a week ago.
In the past 24 hours, 450,597 PCR and rapid antigen tests were reported. Of those, 25,810 were meaningful PCR tests. The positive rate of PCR tests was 0.6 percent, and the 24-hour figure was well above last week’s average of 0.2 percent positive PCR tests.
On Saturday, 49,082 vaccinations were administered. According to E-vaccine passport data, 5,018,387 people in Austria, or 56.2 percent of the population, have received at least partial vaccination. 3,705,939, or 41.5 percent of Austrians, are fully immunized. The highest initial vaccination rate is in Burgenland, with 62.1 percent. In Lower Austria, 59.7 percent of the population is vaccinated, in Tyrol 56.5 percent, in Styria 56.2 percent, in Vorarlberg 56 percent, in Carinthia 53.8 percent, in Vienna 53.6 percent and in Salzburg 52.8 percent. Upper Austria continued to bring up the rear with a first-time vaccination rate of 52.1 percent.
The highest number of new infections occurred in Vienna with 86 – here the seven-day incidence is again 23.3. This was followed by Lower Austria with 19, Styria with 18, Tyrol with 13, Upper Austria with nine, Salzburg with five, Vorarlberg and Carinthia with four each and Burgenland with one new infection.
— source: Austrian Press Agency/picture: pixabay.com
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