New infections jumped to almost 10,000 cases with Omikron
That was equivalent to one within 77.6 percent of a single day.
Around 1,000 corona patients in hospitals
1,010 people met with Covid-19 in hospital treatment on Wednesday, 28 fewer than on Tuesday. Of these, 309 were cared for in intensive care units, a decrease of seven people. With 18 other organizations since Tuesday, 13,802 people have died as a result of the corona virus since the outbreak of the pandemic.
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Extremely high incidences in individual districts
With 3,191, most of the new SARS-CoV-2 cases came from Vienna, filled from Salzburg and Tyrol with 1,587 and 1,413 respectively. The districts with seven-day incidences (number of new infections in the past week per 100,000 inhabitants, note) over 1,000 have already doubled to four on Wednesday, according to the AGES dashboard: Sankt Johann im Pongau (1,717.6) and Kitzbühel (1,853.9) in Salzburg and Tyrol were now joined by Tamsweg (1,148.2) and Landeck (1,238.0), as well as Salzburg and Tyrol. In Vienna this value is 505.3.
New infections in the federal states since yesterday’s report:
- Burgenland: 121
- Carinthia: 155
- Lower Austria: 1,263
- Upper Austria: 1.029
- Salzburg: 1,587
- Styria: 675
- Tyrol: 1.413
- Vorarlberg: 327
- Vienna: 3.191
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Vaccination rate prevented due to expired certificates
The official vaccination rate in Austria is possible on Tuesday from 70.9 percent to 70.3 percent despite 46,651 further stings. The reason is the expiry of the vaccination certificate validity with only one Janssen vaccination (Johnson & Johnson) on January 3rd. Of the 46,651 vaccinations on Tuesday, 5,127 were first stitches (11 percent), 15,444 second stitches (33 percent) and 26,080 third stitches (56 percent).
The protection rate (valid vaccination certificate) is highest in Burgenland at 76 percent, in Lower Austria 72.3 percent of the population have valid vaccination protection, in Styria 70.4 percent. In the other federal states, this value is below the Austrian average of 70.3; it is still lowest in Upper Austria at 66.1 percent.
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(Source: APA)