Category: Austrian News

There have been 12 new deaths reported related to Covid-19. From Sunday to Monday, 27,411 new infections were reported in Austria. In addition, 12 deaths related to the coronavirus were registered. Currently, 305,888 people in Austria are actively infected with the virus. To date, there have been 1,855,578 positive test results in Austria. As of today, 14,103 people across Austria have died as a result of coronavirus and 1,535,587 have recovered. 178 in intensive careCurrently, 1,506 people are undergoing hospital treatment due to the corona virus. Of these, 178 are…

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There have been 16 new deaths reported related to Covid-19. After 38,631 new infections on Friday, 34,748 new infections were reported in Austria today. Currently, 295,135 people in Austria are actively infected with coronavirus. To date, there have been 1,801,040 positive test results in Austria. As of today, 14,077 people across Austria have died as a result of corona virus and 1,491,828 have recovered. The Austria-wide seven-day incidence is now 2,501.5 cases per 100,000 population. 171 in intensive careCurrently, 1,402 people are receiving hospital treatment for Corona virus. Of these,…

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The federal government and the all-government covid crisis coordination Gecko announced gradual easing on Saturday morning. It is seen that Omicron behaves differently than previous variants, the government’s top management announced at a press conference scheduled at short notice on Saturday morning. Case numbers are currently very high, they said, but infection incidence has decoupled somewhat from hospitalization numbers. The utilization of the intensive care beds allows to show perspectives. The decision had therefore been made to “scale back measures in a structured way.” What opening steps were announced?Before the…

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In the past 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. Friday), 38,631 new infections have been recorded. A week ago, there were 26,962 cases. At last count, 19 people infected with coronavirus died. An increase in corona patients has been recorded in hospitals. The number of those covid sufferers requiring treatment in normal wards increased by 77 in the past 24 hours, to a total of 1395. Three more patients were added in the intensive care units. A total of 183 Corona-infected patients are currently in need of intensive care treatment.…

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Very high risk of infection continues throughout Austria. The CoV Commission will continue to set the traffic light to red in all federal states today, according to the panel’s working document. The number of infections is rising nationwide, but the southern provinces are now catching up. The risk figure of 862 still shows Burgenland as the “best” province, but it would have to be below 100 to at least get into the orange sector of high risk. The latter currently seems illusory in some provinces, for example, when one looks…

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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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