Category: Austrian News

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) has invited the provincial governors for Friday to a virtual consultation because of the sharp rise in new corona infections. Already on Wednesday, there had been a meeting in the Chancellor’s Office for this purpose with the chairman of the Conference of Provincial Governors, Tyrol’s Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP). On Wednesday, there had again been a significant increase in new infections, with a total of 3,727 cases reported. Schallenberg is “concerned” about this development, as it said in a written statement. Despite the now-fixed 3G rule…

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16 new deaths reported related to Covid 19 infection. 219 intensive care beds occupied. From Monday to Tuesday, 2,590 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. This is well above the seven-day average of 2,334. There are also 16 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 11,196 so far. The number of active cases stands at 23,174. There are currently 934 people in Austria’s hospitals in connection with covid illness, 20 more than the previous day. 219 patients are in…

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Austria has recorded 1,897 new Corona infections in the past 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. Monday). This is below the average of 2,163 cases over the past seven days. The seven-day incidence was 169.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to figures from the Interior and Health Ministries. As of Monday, there were thus 22,171 active cases in Austria, up 17 from Sunday. There have already been 777,679 confirmed cases in Austria since the pandemic began. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, 744,328 people have recovered; within the past 24…

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Health minister appeals how necessary it is to further increase vaccination coverage in Austria. Wolfgang Mückstein announces that to this end he will send out a letter to all Austrians reminding them of the booster vaccination. 6,636 vaccinations have been carried out on Saturday. In total, 5,815,253 people have received at least a partial vaccination, according to the E-vaccination passport data: That’s 65.1 percent of the population. 5,520,291 people, or 61.8 percent of Austrians, are fully basic immunized. 190,328 people have already been vaccinated for the third time. Vaccination booster“Only…

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The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Interior have reported 2,103 newly registered coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. today). These figures were reported by the federal states to the national crisis team. Sideways movement instead of increase: this trend accompanied the Austrians the past weeks, the daily new infections increased slowly, but an enormous increase remained absent. Until recently, at least, because then the explosion came after all: on Wednesday the country recorded 2,614 positive tests, then on Thursday 2,169 and on Friday…

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When will the Corona pandemic finally end? The current Corona numbers have now remained at a high but stable level for a long time, now they are possibly in the beginning climb again, however, there are very large regional differences. The Corona traffic light commission most recently put the state of Salzburg on red. In contrast, Vienna, which has long struggled with higher infection figures, remains yellow. In the federal capital, the stricter Corona measures have had an effect, epidemiologist Gerald Gartlehner said Friday in Vienna today. When the pandemic…

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Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen invites to the Corona vaccination at the Hofburg on the national holiday. “Get your spade in the most beautiful vaccination street of Austria, in the Marble Hall of the Hofburg. And afterwards, I invite you to stroll through the Presidential Chancellery,” the head of state advertises in a video on Youtube: “We’re turning the Hofburg into a vaccination castle this year!”The Hofburg, in cooperation with the City of Vienna and Johanniter is organizing a vaccination street for all those who have not yet been…

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216 intensive care patients currently. Eight new deaths linked to Covid-19. From Thursday to Friday, 2,432 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. Compared to the previous week (1,878), the number of new infections is 554 higher. The province with the highest seven-day incidence is currently Upper Austria with 226.6, followed by Salzburg, Lower Austria and Styria (212.1, 149.9 and 145.7, respectively). This is further followed by Carinthia (134), Vienna (125.6), Tyrol (110), Burgenland (90.2) and Vorarlberg (67.9). There are also eight new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to…

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Salzburg is once again a coronavirus high-risk zone. The traffic light commission switched the province to red on Thursday. The west with Vorarlberg and Tyrol and the east with Vienna and Burgenland were classified yellow with medium risk. The rest of the country is at high risk, which is shown as orange. Salzburg has the highest current risk number, which decides the classification, with 103.1. This means that Salzburg slipped just into the sector of very high risk. A request from the state for Orange remained in the minority. Upper…

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