Category: Austrian News

From Saturday to Sunday, 4,751 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 6,143 infections. The 7-day incidence drops to 483.08. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 85,995. Forty-two thousand one hundred thirty-five new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 11.28 percent. In addition, there are five new deaths. This means that 19,199 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. New infections in the provincesVienna: 1,658Lower Austria: 1.044Upper Austria:…

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This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 85,380. Fifty-six thousand thirty-three new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.62 percent. There are also 17 new deaths. This means that 19,194 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. There are currently 1,461 people receiving treatment in hospitals. There are 73 patients in intensive care units. New infections in the provincesVienna: 1,843Lower Austria: 1,292Styria: 798Upper Austria: 768Carinthia: 345Tyrol: 306Salzburg: 292Burgenland: 201Vorarlberg: 108 source: sozialministerium.at

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Around 42,000 Viennese will be paid an energy cost lump sum of 200 euros to cushion the current inflation and rising energy prices. Vienna puts together a package to combat high energy costs Energy prices: Here, there is a reliefRecently, the energy cost lump sum of 200 euros against inflation has already received about 192,000 people with minimum security, housing assistance, or an unemployment benefit in Vienna. Compensatory allowance recipients in Vienna receive 200 euros for inflationThirteen thousand single parents with Mindestsicherungs- or Wohnbeihilfebezug would have already received a further…

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An estimated 70 percent of the population was immune to infection with the subtypes of the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen (BA.2 and BA.4/5) that dominate in Austria, according to a model calculation by simulation researchers at the beginning of August. Such high levels were last seen in the monthly “Model-Based Estimate of Immunization Levels” between March and May. There would be question marks behind future estimates because of changes in the pandemic data. The team led by Martin Bicher of the Vienna University of Technology (TU) and dwh,…

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On Friday, Austria reported six thousand two hundred seventy-one new Corona infections. Currently, 1,461 people are hospitalized with Corona disease. The number of patients hospitalized with a Corona infection continues to fall. On Friday, this was 1,461 people, which is 60 less than the day before. Deaths have been registered twelve since Thursday. At the same time, there were 6,271 new infections, 435 fewer than the previous day and nearly 1,300 fewer than last Friday. The number of intensive care patients is also decreasing, with 73 critically ill patients currently…

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The Corona traffic light has been set to yellow for all of Austria. According to the decision of the Corona Commission on Thursday afternoon, there is a medium risk for all of Austria and the six provinces of Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, and Tyrol. In Vienna and Burgenland, the risk is high; these are therefore orange; Vorarlberg was the only province that switched to yellow-green. Thus, there is a low risk in the westernmost province. As of Aug. 3, the load in intensive care units was 3.8…

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In the last 24 hours, Austria had 8,475 new coronavirus infections and 11 deaths. Most of the illnesses were reported in Vienna on Wednesday. The number of hospital patients with corona infection continues to decline. On Wednesday, 1,464 people were hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection. That’s down 83 from the day before. The number has decreased by 255 patients in one week or 14.8 percent. Intensive care was required for 79 Corona-positive patients. This number fell by seven since yesterday and has been reduced by 22 patients in one week. Decrease…

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From Monday to Tuesday, 6,638 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 7,175 infections. The 7-day incidence decreases slightly to 564.24. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 96,555. 74,115 new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 8.96 percent. There are also 22 new deaths. This means that 19,140 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died so far across Austria. Currently, 1,547 people infected with the Corona virus are receiving hospital…

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12 new deaths linked to Covid-19.From Sunday to Monday, 4,205 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 7,543 infections. The 7-day incidence decreases slightly to 593.18. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 101,174. Forty-eight thousand five hundred ninety-eight new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 8.65 percent. There are also 12 new deaths. Thus, 19,118 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died so far across Austria. New infections in the…

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