2023-06-29 06:09:00
July makes everything new, or actually the last day of June. As of tomorrow, Friday, Covid-19 is no longer a notifiable infectious disease. This means that there is no obligation to report, and there are also other changes. However, tests for symptomatic people remain free of charge, as Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) emphasized in mid-June. The AGES dashboard for the corona pandemic will also be discontinued on Friday.
Case numbers no longer available from July
Since March 2020, the Ministry of Health has published daily data on the course of the corona pandemic. These publications are now discontinued. From July it will no longer be known how many people will test positive for the corona virus and how many will end up in hospital or die following being infected.
Instead, the Ministry of Health wants to publish in the future how many people are being treated in the hospitals for a serious respiratory disease. However, the detailed work on it has not yet been completed, as the Ministry of Health announced on APA request. The aim of the so-called SARI dashboard is therefore to “give an overview of the utilization of hospitals due to respiratory viral infections”.
“Died of or with Covid?”
However, the new dashboard should only show hospitalizations, not deaths following severe respiratory diseases. According to the Ministry of Health, deaths are often a result of various factors and are therefore “probably” not published. In this regard, the ministry also refers to the debate that took place in the course of the corona pandemic as to whether those who died following an infection “died from or with Covid”. In addition, Statistics Austria gives an annual overview of the development of causes of death.
Data is taken offline
The AGES dashboard datasets published so far are still accessible until July 31st. After that they will be taken offline. There are no plans, for example, to make influenza data available as open data. The Ministry of Health drew attention to the fact that the flu is not an actual case, but an estimate. The annual report on the ministry’s website (www.sozialministerium.at), which is also published as an Excel file, offers a complete overview of the infection process for all notifiable diseases.
The – registered – corona infection rate is currently at a very low level. The seven-day incidence of infections in a week per 100,000 population is around or even below 10.
Six million recoveries
By June 25, 6,080,914 infections with the coronavirus had been registered across Austria since the beginning of the pandemic, and 6,054,458 patients were reported as having recovered. 22,534 people have died from or with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. A total of 136,726,909 PCR tests were delivered.
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