Category: Austrian News

12 new deaths linked to Covid-19.From Sunday to Monday, 4,205 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 7,543 infections. The 7-day incidence decreases slightly to 593.18. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 101,174. Forty-eight thousand five hundred ninety-eight new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 8.65 percent. There are also 12 new deaths. Thus, 19,118 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died so far across Austria. New infections in the…

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Instead of the quarantine obligation, so-called restrictions are now introduced. Infected persons are allowed to do almost everything with a mask. Starting today, August 1, the quarantine obligation for Covid-infected people falls. With the decree on the so-called “Segregation New,” Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) introduces traffic restrictions instead of isolation. This means infected persons who feel healthy enough may leave their homes or receive visitors. The only condition: The infected must wear a mask practically everywhere. Only outdoors, when a safe distance of two meters can be maintained, is…

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From Saturday to Sunday, 5,714 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 8,197 infections. The 7-day incidence drops slightly to 644.63. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 106,188. Forty-seven thousand nine hundred five new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 11.93 percent. In addition, there are 11 new deaths. This means that 19,106 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. New infections in the provincesVienna: 1,830Lower Austria: 1.258Upper…

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Fifteen new deaths were reported in association with Covid 19 infection. From Friday to Saturday, 6,587 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 8,376 infections. The 7-day incidence drops to 658.69. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 110,414. Sixty-one thousand five hundred ninety-two new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.69 percent. There are also 15 new deaths. This means that 19,095 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across…

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A batch of “Alles gurgelt” test kits has a technical error. The Lead Horizon company recalls hundreds of thousands of its “Alles gurgelt” PCR tests due to a label error. The problem: The sample numbers on the test kit’s sample tube and the instructions for use do not match. A spokeswoman could not tell ORF.at exactly how many tests are affected. In the past six months, she said, “several hundred thousand of them have been delivered,” “where the packaging error occurred in some of them.” The packaging company is likely…

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The fact that infected persons will go to work starting Monday is something the federal capital Vienna does not want to see among its employees. As announced on Friday, for City of Vienna employees – including administration in direct personal customer contact, employees in Viennese hospitals, care facilities, kindergartens, and municipal schools: “Positively tested, whether with or without symptoms, are not obliged to come to work.” “An infection with the coronavirus is still a notifiable disease,” urgently warns the city on Friday. The appeal is therefore also to the customers…

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From Thursday to Friday, 7,569 new infections were registered in Austria. The number is below the 7-day average of 8,993 infections. The 7-day incidence drops to 707.23. This brings the number of active Corona cases down to 114,840. Seventy-one thousand forty-seven new PCR tests were made in the past 24 hours. This results in a positive rate of 10.65 percent. There are also 12 new deaths. This means that 19,080 people with SARS-CoV-2 infection have died across Austria. There are currently 1,654 patients being treated in the hospital and 91…

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Contact tracing is to be discontinued. There are also changes in the entry to Austria. From August, a different wind will be blowing when it comes to Corona: the quarantine rule, for example, will be abolished. But the new Corona rules also have implications for contact tracing. “A continuation of contact tracing is currently not planned,” a spokesman for Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) told ORF. In the new regulation, which will come into force on Monday, there is only talk of infected persons. But no longer of contact persons.…

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As of Monday, the quarantine for Corona infected people in Austria will fall – despite high infection numbers: Currently, there are 8,079 newly infected and 17 dead. Quarantine falls, number of Corona patients in domestic hospitals rises.On Thursday, the country’s health authorities reported 8,079 new Corona infections and 17 deaths in Austria. The infection numbers thus remain very high. By comparison, a week ago Thursday, July 21, 2022, there were 14,070 new infections and small deaths. Small glimmer of hope: hospital numbers are falling for the first time in days,…

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