The number of inpatient Covid cases is increasing; within a week by 224 to 1226 people.
On Saturday there are 12,182 new ones in Austria Corona– Cases registered within 24 hours. That was above the average of the past seven days (11,299) and above the numbers of the past two Saturdays – on July 2nd 10,071 new infections were registered, on July 9th 9654. The seven-day incidence (new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, note .) is now 880.8.
There are currently 1226 people in the hospital, which is at least 224 more than exactly a week ago. 81 Covid 19 cases were treated in intensive care, an increase of 26 compared to last Saturday.
As of Saturday, there were 123,015 active cases in Austria, 1,015 more than the day before. Since the beginning of the pandemic there have already been 4,599,489 confirmed cases in Austria. 4,457,544 people have recovered since the outbreak of the epidemic, and 11,162 are considered healthy once more within the past 24 hours.
Five more deaths related to Sars-CoV-2 have occurred since Friday, with a seven-day average of 8.3 per day. 58 deaths have been registered in the past seven days. Overall, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed at least 18,930 lives in Austria since it broke out. Statistically, 210.8 people per 100,000 inhabitants have died from or with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
PCR positive rate at 17 percent
A total of 115,064 rapid PCR and antigen tests were reported in the past 24 hours. Of these, 71,721 were meaningful PCR tests. The positive rate of the PCR tests was 17 percent. This 24-hour value is above the average for the past week, in which an average of 10.5 percent of the PCR tests were positive.
2800 vaccinations were carried out on Thursday. Of these, 161 were first stitches, 220 second stitches and 2,419 third stitches.
The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence is currently Vienna with 1,149.6, followed by Lower Austria, Burgenland and Upper Austria (935.1, 882 and 865.7 respectively). Next come Vorarlberg (854.6), Salzburg (849.6), Styria (692.9), Tyrol (666.7) and Carinthia (593.7). It should be noted, however, that there is an east-west divide in testing and that far more testing is carried out in the federal capital than elsewhere.
(APA)