Category: Austrian News

by Hector Pascua, Source: Ministry of Health, heute.at More than 8,200 people are already actively suffering from the virus. The details: As the Ministry of the Interior announced on Tuesday, there have been 39,303 positive test results in Austria so far. As of today (9.30 a.m.), 771 people throughout Austria have died as a result of the virus and 30,312 have recovered. At present, 390 people are undergoing hospital treatment due to the corona virus and 75 of those affected are in intensive care units. A total of 645 new…

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by Hector Pascua, with reports from sozialministerium.at/oe24.at This time, the highest number of new infections occurred in Lower Austria. 563 new infections with SARS-CoV-2 were added on Monday according to the figures of the Ministry of the Interior (as of 9.30 am) in the past 24 hours. So far, 1,458,095 registered tests in Austria have yielded 38,658 positive results. This means that about 2.65 percent of the tests performed confirmed an infection with the coronavirus. At present there are 8,375 actively infected persons in Austria, 767 patients have died so…

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So far 38,095 patients, 766 died and 29,229 recovered. 341 hospitalized, 68 of them intensive care. 621 new infections throughout Austria. Sunday, 20 September 2020 – Up to now there have been 38,095 positive test results in Austria. As of today (September 20, 2020, 09:30 a.m.), 766 people throughout Austria have died as a result of the corona virus and 29,229 have recovered. At present, 341 people are undergoing hospital treatment due to the corona virus and 68 of these patients are in intensive care units. The new infections since…

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The corona numbers in Austria continue to rise. Now it has become known how many Viennese are currently in quarantine. The corona virus is spreading rapidly; on Saturday 432 new cases were reported in the federal capital alone. As of Saturday (8.00 am), 12,825 positive tests have been confirmed in the federal capital. Tendency rising. In view of the high number of new infections, the province of Vienna is already considered a corona risk area in Germany, Denmark and Belgium . But that is not enough: As now the speaker…

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The tightened corona measures are now official by decree and will apply from Monday. The most important Corona news of the day at a glance – In Austria, there have been 813 new infections with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of positive test results to 37,474. 432 new infections were recorded in Vienna, which is close to the previous daily maximum of 444 new cases.– Health Minister Rudolf Anschober locates omissions in some federal states due to long waiting times for corona tests.…

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939 tested positiveSo far (status: yesterday, 18 September 2020, 23.00 o’clock) 37,500 persons in Austria were tested positively. That is 939 more than 24 hours before. There are currently 7,447 active coronavirus cases – the previous peak was almost 9,000 at the beginning of April, according to figures from the Ministry of Health. A total of 1,413,965 tests have been performed and reported so far. The figures is published by ORF.at. The public television company uses the figures from the Epidemiological Reporting System (EMS) as the basis for its reporting.…

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New districts are orange since yesterday, others yellow. And this should continue. Vienna. On Thursday the traffic light commission met again. Since yesterday, not a single Austrian state is completely green. So far, Carinthia, Burgenland and Salzburg were finally set to green in the traffic light. Now Eisenstadt, Rust, Villach and Salzburg have been switched to yellow. This means that there is now also a “medium risk”. An eighth district – Zwettl was added – is now orange.In principle, these should now be valid for at least two to four…

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Austrian newspaper “Österreich” reports that The Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Vienna is Austria’s leading corona clinic – is now overcrowded. The rising corona numbers are already leading to the first consequences in Vienna’s hospitals. The leading corona clinic, the SMZ Süd (Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital) is fully occupied. Currently there is no room for further Covid-19 intensive care patients there. The new infection cases must now be transferred to other hospitals such as the Floridsdorf Clinic, Favoriten or the AKH. 34 patients are currently in intensive care in Vienna, a total of 171 patients are…

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18 September, 8.30 AM – The number of new infections in only 24 hours has again risen enormously throughout Austria. 808 new infections with SARS-CoV-2 have been reported in Austria in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is clearly on the rise – at 7,447, this figure has increased by 1,253 within three days. Hospitalizations are also increasing. On Friday there were 334 patients in hospital nationwide. That was 15 more than the day before. Intensive care was required for 62 patients, seven more than on Thursday.…

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