Category: Austrian News

The numbers continue to rise: 7,093 new Corona infections were registered in Austria yesterday (as of 9:00 a.m. Thursday). This is above the average for the past seven days (4,639). The seven-day incidence was 361.7 cases per 100,000 population. Five deaths related to the disease officially occurred within 24 hours (seven-day average: 4.7 daily). There were 500 people in the hospital on holiday, down by eleven from the number reported yesterday. Thirty-one people were cared for in intensive care units. This number dropped by three since yesterday and is down…

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From Tuesday to Wednesday, 6,869 new infections were registered in Austria. This is well above the 7-day average of 4,361 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 342.96. In the past 24 hours, 107,152 new PCR tests were made. This results in a positive rate of 6.41 percent. Currently, there are 49,108 active Corona cases in Austria. In addition, there are nine new deaths. Thus, 18,715 persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died so far throughout Austria. BA.4/BA.5 and travelResponsible for the increase is the omicron subvariant BA.4/BA.5. According to AGES data,…

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Given the enormous inflation, the population is being supported with various measures. Below are the individual points of the relief package in detail. 6 billion packages to combat inflation  Payments to be made this summer The government presented a 6 billion euro anti-inflation package on Tuesday. The package includes short-term measures that will provide immediate relief to the population and long-term structural changes. The measures will be implemented in a three-stage process: In the summer, the first step will be to ease the burden on those most affected by the…

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From Monday to Tuesday, 4,242 new infections were registered in Austria. This is above the 7-day average of 3,878 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 304.97. Currently, there are 45,914 active corona cases in Austria. In addition, there are seven new deaths. Thus, seven persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died so far throughout Austria. New infections in the provincesVienna: 1,406Lower Austria: 741Upper Austria: 418Vorarlberg: 415Tyrol: 405Styria: 341Salzburg: 289Burgenland: 120Carinthia: 107 sozialministerium.at

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Corona numbers in Austria are rising and rising. Instead of a summer break, there are 2,989 new infections on Sunday, a dramatic development.Corona numbers continue to rise. Virus cases are blatantly taking off, despite significantly fewer tests. Already on Thursday, there was a sharp jump upwards. Five thousand one hundred forty-four positive findings were registered, almost twice as many as in the previous week. On Friday, the trend continued. Four thousand two hundred seventy-one positive results were documented. A week earlier, it was “only” 3,211 new infections. This increase continues…

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The National Immunization Panel (NIG) comes into a discussion about the fourth Corona vaccination. It is known that when autumn comes, temperatures drive people indoors again. It provides the ideal breeding ground for the virus to multiply and cause another wave of infection – that’s what experience shows. Currently, the numbers are on the rise again. Therefore, would it not be advisable to advise vaccination now to forestall the impending autumn wave? This is against the background that the vaccine adapted to Omicron by Moderna seems to produce better antibody…

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Four new deaths were associated with Covid 19 infection.From Friday to Saturday, 4,107 new infections were registered in Austria. This is above the 7-day average of 3,384 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 266.14. In the past 24 hours, 50,888 tests were performed. The positive rate is 8.07 percent. Currently, there are 43,273 active Corona cases in Austria. In addition, there are four new deaths. This means that 18,694 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. Currently, 473 patients are being treated in the hospital. In intensive care units,…

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Health Minister Johannes Rauch is convinced that the Austrian population should prepare for more Corona waves. “We will have waves, not only this year but also further down the line,” Rauch told reporters Thursday: “But we can dampen them down to relieve the hospitals.” The tool of choice for that, he said, is vaccination. “We have to be prepared to live with covid. The virus has come to stay.” But after two years of the pandemic, he said, people have learned “a bit” to deal with it, but that doesn’t…

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In Austria, 4,271 new Corona infections were registered within 24 hours on Friday (as of 9:30 a.m.). This is above the average for the past seven days (3,172). According to Interior and Health Ministry figures, last Friday’s figure of 3,211 new infections was also exceeded by more than 1,000 new cases. The seven-day incidence was 247.3 cases per 100,000 population. As of Friday, there were thus 41,550 active cases in Austria, up 1,838 from the previous day. Two thousand four hundred thirty people were considered recovered within the past 24…

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