Category: Austrian News

One record is currently chasing the next. After 34,011 new infections on yesterday’s Wednesday, there is a new high value, which went up again clearly. From Wednesday to Thursday, 43,053 new infections were reported in Austria. This is above the average of the past seven days of 28,526. For comparison, last Thursday there were 24,314 new infections. The number of active cases rises to 267,991.However, today’s number of new infections must be viewed in a slightly different light. Among new infections in Vienna, 6,009 cases were subsequently reported for the…

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Next all-time high in the Corona pandemic: 34,011 new infections were reported by the Ministry of Health within 24 hours on Wednesday. Eleven people infected with the virus died. Exactly a week ago, a new high had also been reported: Thus, 27,677 new infections were recorded on Wednesday last week. In general, more new infections are always reported on Wednesday than on other days of the week. This is partly due to the fact that on this day the results of most of the PCR tests carried out at the…

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The lockdown for the unvaccinated will end next Monday. The federal government justifies this with the current “stable number” of hospital patients. Omicron does not affect “hospital capacities as much as feared”. Experts on the GECKO panel set up to combat the pandemic would also consider the lockdown “no longer useful.” Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) announced the relaxation of the Corona measures just on Wednesday morning, shortly after it became known that there is a new all-time record for new infections. The Chancellor’s Office,…

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The Ministries of Health and Interior have reported 24,946 newly registered CoV cases within the last 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. today). The states reported these numbers to the national crisis team. 14,019 people have died as a result of coronavirus so far. Currently, 1,284 people are undergoing hospital treatment due to the coronavirus, 189 of them in intensive care units. AGES: 7-day incidence at 1,971.2According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the 7-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections with the coronavirus in the…

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The Ministries of Health and Interior have reported 25,610 newly registered CoV cases within the last 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. today). The states reported these numbers to the national crisis team. 14,000 people have died as a result of coronavirus so far. Currently, 1,200 people are undergoing hospital treatment due to the coronavirus, 187 of them in intensive care units. AGES: 7-day incidence at 1,867.1According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the 7-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections with the coronavirus in the…

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On Monday, January 24, 2022, the 12th amendment to the Covid-19 entry regulation will come into force in Austria. The third vaccination means free travel to Austria as of Monday. With the now 12th amendment of the Covid-19 entry regulation, namely the list of virus variant areas is completely emptied. Entry to Austria for boostered persons without PCR testThis means that the PCR test requirement will also be waived for boostered persons from 14 omicron pioneer countries, including Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway. Those who are “only” fully…

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After several days of mishaps surrounding new infections in Austria, Corona figures are now available again. More than 22,400 cases have been registered. This brings the new infection numbers in the Omikron wave well above the 20,000 mark. After several days of outages, the Interior and Health Ministries provided Corona figures for Thursday through Saturday, inclusive, on Saturday evening: Accordingly, 24,314 new Corona cases had been reported on Thursday, 25,346 on Friday and 24,260 on Saturday within 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. each day). However, the data problems –…

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Chancellor Karl Nehammer does not hold out the prospect of an end to the Corona pandemic any time soon; on the contrary. “We will not soon reach the status that the pandemic is over,” he says in the “profil” interview. With Omicron, a paradigm shift is taking place. With the new variant, there is “obviously no limit, we have to adjust to new dimensions. The duration of the quarantine will probably have to be shortened; Gecko is working on this. He points to the threat of major outages, which would…

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Ongoing data problems made it impossible for the time being on Saturday to communicate an assured number of new infections in the last 24 hours. According to raw EMS data, there are over 28,000 new cases. In the last 24 hours, again far more than 20,000 new Corona cases may have been added in Austria. According to raw data from the Epidemiological Reporting System (EMS), 28,175 new infections were reported at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday – but this figure has not been adjusted for any errors. Incidence in all provinces…

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