Corona: 3,756 new infections on Saturday in Austria
The seven-day incidence is now 240 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. As of Saturday there were 29,665 active cases in Austria, 1,666 more than on Friday. There have been 794,982 confirmed cases in Austria since the start of the pandemic. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, 754,072 people have recovered, and 2,078 are considered healthy again within the past 24 hours.
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Twelve findings were reported on Saturday, on a seven-day average there were just as many every day. A total of 11,245 people in Austria died of or with Covid-19 as a result of the pandemic. There are currently 1,036 people in the hospital, 32 more. 227 people were cared for in intensive care units. That number has since increased by three and has increased by eleven patients in a week.
Current corona numbers
A total of 445,905 tests were registered in the past 24 hours. Of these, 144,176 were meaningful PCR tests with a positive rate of 2.6 percent. 17,015 vaccinations were carried out on Friday. A total of 5,844,537 people received at least one partial vaccination: that is 65.4 percent of the population. 5,556,875 people and thus 62.2 percent of Austrians are fully immunized.
Unvaccinated lockdown plan in detail
In view of the increasing numbers of new infections, the federal government presented one of the “step-by-step plans” to contain the corona situation on Friday evening. The measure on unvaccinated people and …
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New infections by federal state
- Burgenland: 64
- Carinthia: 202
- Lower Austria: 667
- Upper Austria: 1,159
- Salzburg: 246
- Styria: 455
- Tyrol: 345
- Vorarlberg: 102
- Vienna: 516
Salzburg and Upper Austria continue to bottom out
The vaccination rate (fully immunized) is highest in Burgenland at 69.6 percent. In Lower Austria 64.9 percent of the population are vaccinated, in Styria 62.9 percent. After Vienna (61.3), Vorarlberg (61.2), Tyrol (60.5), Carinthia (58.8) and Salzburg (58.5), Upper Austria brings up the rear with a vaccination rate of 57.2 percent. (These numbers refer to Friday.)
The federal government with the highest 7-day incidence is currently Upper Austria with 354, of Salzburg, Lower Austria and Styria (346.5, 258.3 and 221.3 respectively). Tyrol (217.9), Carinthia (204.2), Vienna (173.7), Vorarlberg (141) and Burgenland (126.3) also follow.
(Source: APA)