Corona traffic light in Austria: back into the red zone

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The wide openings connected to the new Omicron sub-variant, which is currently dominating in Austria, bring the coronavirus traffic light back into the red zone. While the numbers tended to decline slightly in the past weeks, the 14-day trend is now pointing upwards again, in some cases strongly. According to the working document of the responsible commission, the system risk in regular wards is also on the rise.

The development is unfavorable compared to the previous week. While Vienna was already close to leaving the maximum risk zone, the situation now looks different again. The risk figure, which is used to determine the coloring, has gone up everywhere.

While it was 169 for the federal territory a week ago, it reached almost 215. To at least get into the second-highest risk zone of orange, it should not exceed 100.

Vienna remains the best federal state and currently has a value of 122 for the risk figure, which takes into account parameters such as vaccination status and age of the patients in addition to the pure infections. Last week the value was 105.

Tyrol brings up the rear in terms of stability – this time with a value of 363. In the past two weeks, the increase in cases was solid in Burgenland with 22 percent, comparatively lowest in the federal capital with four percent.

Unfavorable development in hospitals

The situation is also developing relatively unfavorably in the normal wards of the hospitals. Burgenland is already in the double-digit range for CoV-specific occupancy. The percentage is expected to increase by another 50 percent to 15 percent in the coming weeks.

In all other federal provinces, Covid cases will also accumulate in the hospitals and the intensive care units, although there too the extent that is probably tolerable.

The other parameters show hardly any abnormalities compared to the previous weeks. Furthermore, the majority of asymptomatic cases are detected in Vienna. There are no typical symptoms in two out of three of the detected infections in the federal capital.

In no other province is there a value that exceeds one-third. As usual, testing is mainly done in the east. In Vienna, there are just under 107,000 tests per 100,000 inhabitants. Burgenland and Lower Austria follow relatively close behind. Tyrol, Salzburg, and Vorarlberg bring up the rear in this ranking.

The decision to suspend compulsory vaccination has little to do with the current CoV wave, said complexity researcher Peter Klimek yesterday. “Compulsory vaccination was always meant as a preparation for autumn 2022.” The recent increase is due to the openings in February, he said.