Traffic light commission: More countries turn red

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At today’s meeting of the traffic light commission, the number of red-turned-states will probably triple. Salzburg is likely to be joined by Lower and Upper Austria. That’s because these three states have a risk score above 100, which is considered the threshold for very high risk of infection. This is the result of the Commission’s working paper.

If the risk figure is adhered to, Vienna, Tyrol and Vorarlberg also slip back, namely from yellow to orange and thus into high risk. Only Burgenland still has a value of 44.3, which represents medium risk. At 50.3, Vienna is only just above the medium risk threshold. In Tyrol, on the other hand, the risk figure has almost doubled in the space of a week.

Situation in Vienna remains stable
The development over the past 14 days has also been negative. Only in Vienna, where stricter rules than in the rest of the federal territory have been in force for weeks, is the situation stable. Everywhere else, the infection figures are rising, with Tyrol showing a particularly unfavorable development with plus 40 percent and Lower Austria with plus 34 percent.

The comparatively stricter, PCR-test-intensive regime in the federal capital is also paying off in terms of asymptotic cases being detected. With a share of 48 percent, Vienna is far above the national average of 31 percent here. By comparison, in Salzburg, the state with the worst risk figure, the figure is only 19 percent.

43 percent increase among over-65s
At 62 percent, the number of clarified cases is declining nationwide. Vienna, which once again has by far the highest test rate, has the best value together with Lower Austria (both 67 percent), Salzburg again the worst with 55 percent.

It is particularly unfavorable that the figures for the particularly vulnerable group of over-65s have risen sharply – by almost 43 percent. Once again, the worst development is in Salzburg, with an increase of almost 93 percent.

Infection curve points steeply upward
The CoV infection curve is gaining momentum again. For the first time since spring, more than 3,000 new infections were recorded in one day. Although the number of occupied intensive care beds is still stable at a low level, the past few days have also brought a noticeable increase in the number of hospitalized patients.