Category: Austrian News

The government may announce new steps against the spread of the coronavirus on Saturday. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) called this date on Thursday after a meeting with medical experts in the Federal Chancellery. If the currently high number of new infections continues to rise, the intensive care units would already be overloaded “in the middle or end of November”, said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens). On Friday, Kurz said that there would be talks with the social partners. On Saturday, meetings with the state governors and the opposition are on…

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Most of the new cases were reported in Lower Austria – which causes trouble for the authorities in that province. In the Salzburg town of Kuchl, the quarantine ends at the weekend. The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Austria. According to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior, 4453 new infections have been registered within 24 hours, most of them in Lower Austria. This is the highest figure since the outbreak of the pandemic. There is already speculation about a tightening of measures in Austria. Late registration…

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For the first time in Austria more than 4,453 new cases are reported. The situation is dramatically worsening Corona numbers in Austria continue to rise rapidly. OE24.at reports that 4,453 new corona infections were registered within 24 hours, the first time more than 4,000 new corona infections were registered. The situation is worsening dramatically. The number of cases by federal state Vienna: 821Lower Austria: 1.074Upper Austria: 796Tyrol: 584Vorarlberg: 276Styria: 355Salzburg: 262Carinthia: 166Burgenland: 11929 new deathsIn total there were 29 deaths in just one day. Statistics professor Erich Neuwirth even reported…

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Austria’s corona situation is deteriorating dramatically. What the government is planning. Vienna. All of Europe is in the middle of the second wave. This is the reason why lockdown-like conditions are occurring everywhere. Today there will be a video conference of the 27 EU heads of government. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz wants to quickly implement new measures to avert a collapse of the healthcare system. Austrian daily newspaper “Österreich reports that a “lockdown light” – similar to the situation in Germany, might be implemented in Austria. This should come into force…

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The Vienna election on October 11 brought a record number of 382,124 issued voting cards. However, about 13,000 returned voting cards were invalid. The reason was a missing signature on the return envelope. At 3.5 %, the percentage of unsigned election cards was below the average of previous elections, which had been around 5 %, according to the Viennese electoral authority, which sees the current broad-based information campaign as a success. 13,000 signatures were missing in the gray area on the election card11,000 missing signatures in National Council electionBy way…

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The dashboard of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) yesterday showed a further increase in the 7-day incidence. The new infections with the Coronavirus in the past week are with 236 per 100,000 inhabitants (conditions: yesterday, 15.00 o’clock). This is an increase of 22 compared to the previous day. According to federal states, Vorarlberg now leads with an incidence of 351, an increase of 52. Tyrol holds at 331, Salzburg at 307. A strong increase of 35 was recorded in Upper Austria, where the 7-day incidence is now…

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Minister of the Interior Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) today called for people to stay home on Saturday despite Halloween. At the same time he announced increased controls during the night to Sunday. He had given instructions to the Director General for Public Security to implement these increased controls at the level of the state police directorates. According to the Minister of the Interior, the focus is on the one hand on compliance with the legal requirements in the night catering sector, and on the other hand on preventing larger celebrations and…

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In the last 24 hours, the number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Austria has risen by 3,394, according to figures from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior (as of 9:30 a.m. today). Nationwide, 1,027 people have died as a result of Covid-19 and 61,684 have recovered. At present, 1,569 are undergoing hospital treatment, 224 of them in intensive care units. In total, 89,496 people in Austria have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic. 7-day incidence at 214According to the figures of the AGES-Dashboard…

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Vienna. On National Day, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warned: “The last measure is a second lockdown. This will be necessary when intensive care is overburdened because of corona cases.“Sharpening up”. On Tuesday, the office of the Green Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober, also warned: “If these infection figures continue to develop as dynamically as they did last week, the situation could quickly escalate. Experts explain: Under normal conditions, i.e. without corona, 85 to 90 % of intensive care beds are occupied. So there is not that much space available for Covid…

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