Almost every 20th person in Salzburg is currently infected
After the end of almost all corona measures, the infection records also fell in Salzburg
Health authorities in the country reported 3,776 new cases on Wednesday – the highest since the pandemic began. In addition, the seven-day incidence of 3,424 (according to the state census) and the number of active infections at 25,870 have never been higher than today. Based on the almost 563,000 inhabitants of Salzburg, almost every twentieth person in the state is currently infected.
The number of hospital patients suffering from Corona was also slightly higher on Wednesday than last. In the morning, 112 Covid 19 patients were hospitalized, 7 of them in intensive care. Meanwhile, state medical director Petra Gruber-Juhasz, in an interview with “ORF Salzburg”, called for people to be reminded of reliable protective measures such as the FFP2 mask, washing hands and keeping your distance. “It would be important from my point of view, so that the numbers do not increase indefinitely.”
Gruber-Juhasz did not believe that an infestation of the population with the omicron variant could cancel out the forecast autumn wave. There have always been multiple infections, for example with the delta and omicron variants. “There are also already the first cases that have become infected multiple times with omicron subtypes,” she says.