Category: Austrian News

The number of people infected with the coronavirus climbed to a new record level on Thursday. According to the Ministry of the Interior, 9,262 people tested positive for Covid-19 were added to the number. So far there have been 181,642 positive test results in Austria. On Thursday, 3,811 infected persons were undergoing treatment in a hospital. 546 of the infected persons were in intensive care units. The numbers by federal states: Burgenland: 194, Carinthia: 399, Lower Austria: 634, Upper Austria: 2,554, Salzburg: 798, Styria: 1,116, Tyrol: 879, Vorarlberg: 537 and…

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Number of new corona infections in Austria remains extremely high. With over 9,100 new corona infections, a new negative record has been reached. The virus situation throughout Austria remains dramatic. In the midst of the political discussion about corona-related school closures, the number of new infections in Austria has reached a new high: According to “Krone”, “Heute” and “oe24.at” there have been 9,105 new cases within the last 24 hours – more than ever before since the outbreak of the pandemic in Austria. However, this figure also includes the late…

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11. November 2020 – The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior have reported 7,514 newly registered coronavirus cases (as of 9:30 a.m. today) within the last 24 hours. In total, 172,380 people have tested positive in Austria since the beginning of the pandemic. 3,719 people have to be treated in hospital for the infection, 536 of them in intensive care. 1,564 people have died in connection with Covid-19 according to ministry figures. The most positive test results were recorded in Vienna with 1,427 – due to technical…

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Today, the main committee of the Austrian Parliamentary extended the initial restrictions in force since November 3. This is necessary because according to the legal requirements, the initial restrictions can only be adopted for ten days at a time. All other measures of the partial lockdown have already been decided for four weeks until the end of November. In addition to the governing parties ÖVP and Greens, the SPÖ will also vote for the extension. Meanwhile, the Vienna City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) will present “checkboxes”. These are…

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The Corona situation in Austria is coming to a head! Once again, there has been a sharp increase in new infections in the last 24 hours. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober recently made it clear that if the corona figures in Austria continue to rise this week, the lockdown “light” in Austria will be tightened. And a tightening was already announced today, Tuesday! Thus, stores will only be open until 19.00 hours from Wednesday onwards. A possible “explosion” of new infections did not occur yesterday, Monday, with “only” 5,600 new cases,…

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Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) threatened on Sunday to tighten measures to contain the coronavirus if the daily number of new infections does not decrease and if the number of Covid-19 patients requiring intensive care continues to rise. “The next few days will be days of setting the course. If the effectiveness of the partial lockdown does not provide relief, we will have to tighten the partial lockdown,” said Anschober. Anschober described the reported positive test results – 5,933 were recorded throughout Austria on Sunday – as “still dramatically high”,…

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Most new cases were again in Upper Austria. The Austrian health authorities have registered 5,593 new infections with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Although this is 340 fewer than reported on Sunday, it is more than 1,500 higher than on Monday of the previous week. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, there have been 158,746 positive test results since the beginning of the pandemic. With 1,454 people who have died of or with the coronavirus and 94,627 people who have…

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Yesterday, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) once again announced that measures to contain the coronavirus would be tightened if the daily number of new infections did not decrease and the number of Covid-19 patients requiring intensive care continued to rise. “The next few days will be days of setting the course. If the effectiveness of the partial lockdown does not provide relief, we will have to tighten the partial lockdown,” Anschober said in a broadcast. The number of reported positive test results (5,933 on Sunday!)) is “still dramatically high”, he…

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In the past 24 hours, 5,933 new infections were reported – more than ever before on a Sunday. There are already 459 patients in the intensive care unit. The figures for the federal states in detail: Burgenland: 215Carinthia: 195Lower Austria: 1.370Upper Austria: 1.608Salzburg: 144Styria: 752Tyrol: 808Vorarlberg: 319Vienna: 522 After there was a new record number of new infections in Austria on Saturday, the number of new cases on Sunday – as always on the weekend – has decreased significantly. 5,933 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours. The…

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