Today the ministries report 53,071 new infections – significantly more than the day before. 13 fewer infected people are being treated in the hospitals. 43 people have died since yesterday.
With 53,071 new infections on Wednesday, it has the second highest value after the Record given last week with 58,583. In addition, according to the ministries, 43 other deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours. The number of hospital patients has fallen slightly to 3266 people, 227 people are being cared for in intensive care units, two more than on Tuesday. However, the positive rate of the PCR tests was extremely high at 10.6 percent.
The just over 53,000 new SARS-CoV-2 cases are well above the average of around 43,000 over the past seven days. The seven-day incidence fell slightly to 3359 cases per 100,000 population after 3420.3 the previous day. The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence is currently Lower Austria with 3767.8, followed by Styria, Upper Austria and Burgenland (3709.7, 3687.1 and 3519.9 respectively). This number is below the Austrian average in Vorarlberg (3403.3), Salzburg (3270.5), Vienna (3037.4), Carinthia (2930.6) and in Tyrol (2337.3).
Average of 34.4 deaths per week
The high number of deaths at 43 increases the seven-day average to 34.4 and 241 within seven days. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 15,530 lives in Austria since it broke out.
The number of active cases continues to rise with an increase of 11,286 compared to yesterday, within the past 24 hours 41,742 were also considered healthy again. Now it’s 440,952 people, down from 416,899 laboratory-confirmed active cases a week ago. In total, there have already been 3,585,486 confirmed cases in Austria since the beginning of the pandemic.
The number of vaccinations continues to fall significantly
Only the vaccinations are falling significantly, 3180 were carried out on Tuesday. According to the data from the e-vaccination card, a total of 6,217,044 people and thus 69.2 percent of Austrians have valid vaccination protection. That also means a slight decline of around 0.1 percent in one week. On January 1st, 70.8 percent of Austrians still had a valid vaccination.
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