Category: Austrian News

Fourteen new deaths were reported in association with Covid 19 infection. From Monday to Tuesday, 4,883 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 5,426 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 426.70. The number of active Corona cases decreases slightly again – to 68,732. Sixty-four thousand nine hundred sixty-four new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. That gives a positive rate of 7.52 percent. There are also 14 new deaths. This means 19,357 people have died in connection with a SARS-CoV-2…

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More than 4,700 new Corona infections have occurred in Austria (Aug. 21, 9:30 a.m.). The number of new infections reported for Vienna on Sunday was 1,488. According to a release from the Interior Ministry, Vienna is the only province in Austria above the 1,000 mark in terms of new Corona infections. New corona infections in Austria’s provincesBurgenland: 129Carinthia: 389Lower Austria: 995Upper Austria: 612Salzburg: 192Styria: 591Tyrol: 215Vorarlberg: 124Vienna: 1,488 The number of Covid-19 sufferers requiring hospital beds and inpatient care continues to fall. On Sunday, one hundred sixty people infected with…

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In the last 24 hours, Austria had a total of 5,475 new coronavirus infections. Vienna again reported the most cases on Saturday. On Saturday, 1,188 people infected with the coronavirus were treated as inpatients in Austrian hospitals. Of these, 64 required intensive medical care. The hospital numbers thus continue to decline. The number of covid patients decreased by 25 within one day, and the number of severe cases in intensive care units fell by eight within one week. Daily Corona infections, on the other hand, were 5,475 on Saturday, above…

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From Thursday to Friday, 6,131 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is above the 7-day average of 5,247 infections. The 7-day incidence rises to 412.61. The number of active Corona cases rises slightly again – to 72,454. Fifty-four thousand three hundred eighty-one new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. That gives a positive rate of 11.27 percent. In addition, there are 16 new deaths. This means that 19,322 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. There are currently 1,213 patients being treated in the…

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The Corona traffic light remains unchanged from the previous week. The commission left all of Austria at yellow on Thursday. This medium risk on the five-point scale also continues to apply to the provinces of Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vienna. Upper Austria, Styria, and Vorarlberg continue to be classified as low risk (yellow-green). The Corona Commission announced this after a circular resolution; there was no actual meeting. Vienna with the highest incidenceVienna had the highest raw seven-day incidence per 100,000 population from Aug. 10-16. However, this is…

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Wien Energie is turning the price screw as of September 1. An average household will be more expensive by a whopping 85 percent (!). Viennese now got the new electricity prices by mail.“Your electricity price will change from September 1, 2022” – this letter has been properly driving the blood pressure in hundreds of thousands of Viennese households since Thursday. As reported, the tariffs for electricity and gas in Vienna and Lower Austria will be massively more expensive from autumn. In the future, providers will even have the option to…

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Ten new deaths were reported in connection with Covid 19 infection. From Wednesday to Thursday, 7,641 new infections were registered in Austria. Ten further deaths were reported in the past 24 hours. There are currently 72,211 active Corona infections in Austria. The 7-day incidence is 408.09. To date, there have been 4,845,882 positive test results in Austria. 19,306 persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died, and 4,754,365 have recovered throughout Austria. 66 in intensive care unitsCurrently, 1,245 people infected with coronavirus are receiving hospital care. Of these, 66 are being cared…

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From Tuesday to Wednesday, 5,930 new infections were registered in Austria. In addition, 17 fresh deaths related to the coronavirus were reported. Thus, there are currently 71,322 active corona infections in Austria. The nearly 6,000 positive test results represent approximately 1,000 more cases than the seven-day average (4,937). The seven-day incidence dropped to 388.27 cases per 100,000 population. To date, there have been 4,838,241 positive test results in Austria. Nineteen thousand two hundred ninety-six persons with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died, and 4,747,623 have recovered nationwide. Meanwhile, the Covid forecasting consortium,…

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The Corona situation in Austria continues to improve! Thus, “only” about 3,800 new infections were registered again in the last 24 hours. The number of Corona cases has dropped significantly in Austria in recent days and weeks – including last weekend or holiday! There were 5,478 new infections on Saturday, 4,731 on Sunday, and even “only” 3,008 on Assumption Day. New infections in the federal states: Burgenland: 62 Carinthia: 266 Lower Austria: 854 Upper Austria: 415 Salzburg: 200 Styria: 229 Tyrol: 184 Vorarlberg: 99 Vienna: 1,499 To date, there have…

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