Corona: 3,251 new infections on Wednesday
As in many other EU countries, this is likely to be the result of the expanding Omikron variant. The hospital occupancy figures remain, however.
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52 hospital patients in Salzburg
There are currently 1,147 people with Covid-19 in a hospital, 52 fewer than the previous day. 353 people are cared for in intensive care units and this number has also decreased since yesterday. A decrease of 19 people means a total reduction of 106 patients within one week, that is over 23 percent. In Salzburg, 52 corona patients are treated in the hospital, 18 of them in the intensive care unit.
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There have been seventeen destinations since yesterday, which is pretty much in the seven-day average of 17.4, 122 visits within a week. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 13,689 deaths in Austria since the outbreak. As of Wednesday there are 28,634 active cases in Austria, 212 more than the day before.
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As the number of new infections rose, so did the proportion of positive test results: Of the 474,074 PCR and antigen rapid tests registered in the past 24 hours, 335,071 were carried out with the more informative PCR method; the positive rate was at one percent and thus above last week’s average of 0.4 percent.
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The number of first stitches is increasing
The vaccination behavior of Austrians is also relatively positive, because of the total of 51,864 vaccinations on Tuesday, both the 5,523 first stitches were above the seven-day average of 3,634 and the 16,253 second stitches were above the seven-day average of 10,221. The majority concerned third stitches; 30,088 died or just over 58 percent of all vaccinations carried out. This number is also above the seven-day average, which in this segment is 22,202.
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Incidence highest in Tyrol
The number of 3,251 new infections is clearly above the average of the last seven days of 2,220, and the seven-day incidence has now fallen to 174 per 100,000 inhabitants. The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence, Tyrol with 286, remains behind Vorarlberg, Vienna and Carinthia (226.7, 213.8 and 160.3, respectively) – but Burgenland brings up the rear (120.9).
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Upper Austria is lagging behind in terms of vaccination
Conversely, Burgenland is the federal state with the highest protection rate (valid vaccination certificate) of 76.1 percent. In Lower Austria 72.4 percent of the population have valid vaccination protection, in Styria 70.3 percent. Upper Austria remains at the bottom with 66.2 percent.
More than 70 percent are vaccinated
A total of 70.6 percent of Austrians have valid vaccination protection, so at least 24.4 percent are still missing to achieve the goal of the scientific initiative “We all”, a vaccination rate of 95 percent. On Wednesday the initiative reported from new supporters: Vaccination expert and tropical medicine specialist Herwig Kollaritsch, economist and cultural historian Walter Ötsch, child and youth psychiatrist Ernst Berger and ORF journalist and author Susanne Scholl are now also actively supporting the goal.
(Source: APA)