Category: Austrian News

One new patient in intensive care. In addition, there are eleven new deaths related to Covid-19. From Monday to Tuesday, 1,438 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. Compared to the previous week (1,229 cases), this is 209 cases more. There are also 11 new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,812 so far. The number of active cases rises to 17,535. The seven-day incidence is 119.57. There are currently 614 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid illness, up…

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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was the last guest of this year’s “Sommergespräch” aired via ORF Television on Monday, 6. September 2021. For large parts of the conversation, the focus was on how the federal government intends to take action against the Corona virus in the fall. The chancellor will also discuss this with the heads of the federal states on Wednesday. In principle, Kurz is strongly in favor of vaccination. It is the way back to normality, he said. “The fact that it is here so quickly is something we should…

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15 new intensive care patients. There are also eight new deaths linked to Covid 19 infection. From Sunday to Monday, 1,429 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. Compared to the previous week (1,120 cases), this is 309 cases more. Although this is below the average of the past seven days (1,491), it is the highest Monday value since the end of April. There are also eight new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,801 so far. The number of…

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In addition, three new deaths related to Covid-19 were registered. From Saturday to Sunday, 1,774 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. There are also three new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,793 so far. The number of active cases increases by 527 to 17,714. The seven-day incidence is 123.01. There are currently 548 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid disease, down six from the previous day. 155 patients are in intensive care – two more than the…

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From Thursday to Friday, 1,715 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. There are also five new deaths related to Covid-19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,790 so far. The number of active cases increases by 450 to 17,187. The seven-day incidence is 118.97. There are currently 554 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid disease, up eleven from the previous day. 153 patients are in intensive care – four more than the day before. In the past 24 hours, 98,137 PCR tests have…

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Of the nearly 10,000 CoV infections, 9,476 were exact in calendar week 34 (August 23-29), the proportion of cleared source of infection was 70.7 percent, again more than two-thirds, as in the previous five weeks. While travel-associated cases decreased to 30.2 percent (down 9.6) compared to the previous week, nearly half of new infections again occurred in households, with a 48.1 percent share. As the current epidemiological Covid-19 clarification of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) shows, this development occurred even more strongly in Vienna, where the majority…

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From Thursday to Friday, 1,753 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. The figure is above the average of the past seven days (1,457). There are also seven new deaths related to Covid 19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,785 so far. The number of active cases increases by 434 to 16,737. The seven-day incidence is 114.56. There are currently 543 people in Austria’s hospitals related to covid disease, up five from the previous day. 149 patients are in intensive care – seven more…

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Three new deaths were registered in connection with Covid-19. From Wednesday to Thursday, 1,510 new Corona infections were registered in Austria. There are also three new deaths related to Covid-19 infection to report, bringing the pandemic death toll in Austria to 10,778 so far. The number of active cases increases by 386 to 16,303. The seven-day incidence is 112.86. In the past 24 hours, 80,296 PCR tests have been performed, with a positive rate of 1.88 percent. There are currently 538 people in Austria’s hospitals linked to covid disease, down…

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A study from neighboring Switzerland is causing a stir. Researchers compared PCR and rapid tests – with devastating results. The research team from the University of Bern made a direct comparison of rapid antigen tests with PCR tests under real-life conditions. For this purpose, a total of 1,465 subjects were tested with both methods. Overall, the PCR test found 141 infected individuals (9.6 percent) among the sample, whereas the rapid antigen test detected only 95 infections (6.4 percent). Thus, only two out of three PCR-positive individuals were also detected by…

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