Category: Austrian News

On Monday, the government wants to announce whether there will be further relaxations and opening steps. The Corona figures make many negative. Since Wednesday of this week, more than 2,000 new infections with the corona virus have been reported daily by the Ministry of the Interior in Austria. This figure was particularly high on Thursday, with over 2,300 newly confirmed Covid 19 cases. In view of the planned Corona Summit on Monday, at which the government will reveal the further course of action until Easter, many are staring anxiously at…

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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is sticking to his words: normality should return by summer. However, he said, this does not mean that the crisis is over. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has already stressed several times that Austria could return to normal life by the summer of 2021. Kurz stuck to this assessment also on Saturday night: “With the vaccination, we will return to normality in the summer,” Kurz wrote at 6 a.m. on the short message service Twitter. However: the pandemic will “continue to occupy us with mutations,” the chancellor said. And…

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22 deaths registered in the past 24 hours. Regional outbreaks driven mainly by British variant. On Wednesday, the 2,000 mark was cracked for the first time in more than a month, and then on Thursday, nearly 2,400 new infections were confirmed. And on Friday, another 2,093 were added. So the trend of the past few days, it continues. The 7-day incidence is now 148.31. As recently as February 9, this value was 104 – the lowest level since mid-October. In addition, there were 22 new deaths in the past 24…

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The number of confirmed Corona cases in the federal capital in the last 24 hours is 593. As of Thursday, February 25, 2021, 90,761 positive tests have been confirmed in Vienna since the start of the pandemic, according to the provincial health directorate and the city’s medical crisis team. The 593 positive tests reported today include 62 follow-up reports from the past few days. The number of deaths related to the virus is 1,667, meaning that three people have lost their lives again, while 84,627 people have recovered. Yesterday, 47,050…

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After there were already more than 2,000 new infections in Austria on Wednesday for the first time in a month, the number rose again on Thursday. In the past 24 hours, there have been 2,391 confirmed new infections in Austria. There are also 23 new deaths linked to Covid-19. In hospitals, the number of Covid patients treated has at least decreased. There are 27 fewer patients in the normal ward and 5 fewer patients in the intensive care unit. source: sozialministerium.at

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For the first time in nearly five weeks, more than 2,000 new infections have been reported in Austria. According to the Interior and Health Ministries, 2,006 new cases were added in the past 24 hours – two and a half weeks after the relaxations. On average over the past week, 1,786 people were thus infected with SARS-CoV-2 every day. The last time more than 2,000 were registered was on January 22, with 2,088 infections. On Monday, the government will decide on further measures and relief. The gastronomy industry hopes for…

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New coronavirus infections in Austria continue to rise. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Health, 1727 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours. On average over the past week, 1747 were thus infected with SARS-CoV-2 every day, bringing the seven-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants to 137.4. There was a significant increase in intensive care patients. Here, five percent more had to be cared for than last week. A total of 12,232 new cases were confirmed last week. The number of actively infected persons increased…

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The numbers of COVId 19 infections in Austria are rising: from yesterday to today, 1,270 new cases were registered, and eleven more deaths were reported in connection with Covid-19. By comparison, 1,225 new infections were counted last week, and 1,057 on February 8. The number of deaths increased by eleven, according to the Interior and Health Ministries. Thus, 8,397 people have already died from or with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. Within the past week, nearly 12,000 new infections have been added – exactly 11,932 since last Sunday. Meanwhile, more…

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The weather in Austria will be spring-like this week thanks to an Adriatic high. In some parts of the country, temperatures will scratch the 20-degree mark during the week. A stable and spring-like high-pressure weather promises the forecast of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) for the week. It will be mild, temperatures can reach up to 19 degrees in some parts of the country during the day. Only on Friday, the high pressure influence weakens somewhat, the meteorologists reported. High air pressure will provide widespread sunshine and…

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