Category: Austrian News

After Omicron had catapulted the number of new infections to unprecedented heights recently, relief is slowly emerging. From Thursday to Friday, 32,712 new infections were reported in Austria – a decrease of 2,538 compared to the previous day. This is above the average of the past seven days of 31,748; a week ago, the number of daily new infections was 36,329. The number of active cases also decreased by 1,933 to 340,181 affected persons. In the past 24 hours, 373,202 new PCR tests were performed. This translates to a positive…

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The CoV traffic light remains red in the first week of the semester break. The risk situation is to be classified as very high risk for the whole of Austria and all federal states, the CoV Commission announced today after a circular resolution. There was no actual meeting this week. But there are signals in the direction of a trend reversal. Those provinces where Omicron initially spread most widely show a downward 14-day trend in infection numbers. Cases are also declining in the majority of Salzburg and Tyrol districts. The…

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From Tuesday to Wednesday, 38,309 new infections were registered in Austria. This is again above the average of 32,677 over the past seven days. Currently, 345,603 people in Austria are actively infected with the coronavirus. The seven-day incidence is 2,569.82. In the past 24 hours, 440,011 new PCR tests were performed. This results in a positive rate of 6.90 percent. There are also 22 new deaths associated with Covid-19 infection to report. Thus, the pandemic has claimed 14,293 lives in Austria so far. Currently, 2,056 patients are being treated in…

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Fourteen new deaths linked to Covid-19. From Sunday to Monday, 27,299 new infections were registered in Austria. This is below the average of 32,664 over the past seven days. Currently, 350,419 people in Austria are actively infected with the coronavirus. The seven-day incidence is 2,568.78. In the past 24 hours, 375,217 new PCR tests were performed. This results in a positive rate of 7.28 percent. There are also 14 new deaths associated with Covid-19 infection to report. Thus, the pandemic has claimed 14,246 lives in Austria so far. The number…

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With 29,324 Corona new infections within 24 hours, the highest Sunday value since the outbreak of the pandemic two years ago has been measured in Austria due to the highly contagious variant Omicron. A week ago, the number was 27,127, and the week before that, 22,453 cases. A new record was also set for active cases. Currently, 348,884 people are laboring from infection, up by 5,551 from the previous day. According to figures from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior, the number of new infections of…

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There have already been more than two million confirmed cases of corona in Austria since the pandemic began. On Saturday, 2,027,604 cases were reported, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Interior. Within the past 24 hours, 32,258 new infections were added. Last week, 34,748 cases were counted on Saturday. Therefore, the seven-day incidence also dropped from 2,564.2 to 2,536.4 cases per 100,000 population. The number of new infections within one day is below the average of 32,366 cases in the past seven days. However, the number of…

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There have been 22 new deaths reported related to Covid-19. The Omicron wave keeps leading to new highs. Several times in the last few weeks, new infections have reached record levels and new daily records have been set. More than 43,000 new infections were reported on Thursday of the previous week, for example. Since then, the number of new cases has leveled off at a high level within 24 hours. Within the last week, there have been more than 229,000 positive tests, bringing yesterday’s total to 339,722 active cases, a…

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Vienna’s City Councillor for Health Peter Hacker expects a second wave after the semester break. Especially the Omicron sub-variant BA.2 is likely to drive up the infections, many may also get infected during the semester break. School tests fall away during the semester breakDue to the start of the semester break, Corona tests at schools will fall away next week, many people will be on vacation, the consequence: “The numbers will go down next week,” Hacker said. The week after that, two events coincide: Corona screenings in schools will resume…

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This further increases the number of active cases to a new high of 339,127. From Thursday to Friday, 36,329 new infections were reported in Austria. Thus, the number of active cases continues to rise to a new high. 339,127 people are currently confirmed Corona-positive. The seven-day incidence per 100,000 population is thus currently 2,573.3. In addition, 25 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded. As of today, 14,192 people across Austria have died as a result of coronavirus and 1,642,027 have recovered. 199 patients in intensive care unitsCurrently, 1,807 people are undergoing…

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