Category: Austrian News

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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The situation in hospitals is becoming increasingly dramatic. For the first time since yesterday, more than 3,000 patients are undergoing Covid treatment. 432 have to be treated in an intensive care unit. Resources have long since become scarce. A collapse is feared by many experts. Since yesterday, not a single intensive care bed is free in the state hospital of Hohenems (Vorarlberg). New patients are immediately diverted to Feldkirch. The problem: it is already the second fully occupied hospital in the Ländle. Dornbirn is also at its limit. More than…

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A new construction site has been set up on the Vienna Südosttangente (A 23), which will obstruct traffic until the end of 2022. One of the lanes of the beltway in the direction of Stadlau has been closed during the renewal of the St. Marx elevated road. If you drive north from the Gürtel onto the “Tangente”, you have two options so far: The inner ramp leads you directly onto the tracks towards Kagran, the other one towards the eastern highway. The inner lane is now closed because it has…

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The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior have reported 8,241 newly registered coronavirus cases (as of 9:30 a.m. today) within the last 24 hours. This is significantly more than the previous day, when there were 6,464. 147,220 people have tested positive in Austria since the beginning of the pandemic. 3,006 people have to be treated in hospital for the infection, 432 of them in intensive care. 1,377 people have died in connection with Covid-19 according to ministry figures. AGES: 73,959 active casesAccording to the figures of the…

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