22. 01. 2022 15:00 | VIENNA / TASR
They were last published on Wednesday, when a record number of 27,677 infections were recorded.
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In Austria, official data on the number of positive coronavirus test results have not been available for the past two days. Only raw data from the EMS registration system are available, according to which 28,175 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours (until 8.00 am on Saturday). However, the figures are not adjusted for multiple reported cases and other errors, the APA said. It is estimated that the limit of 20,000 infected was also exceeded on Thursday and Friday. According to the Ministry of Health, the remedy being worked on is hampered by the fact that the EMS handles a high number of new infections
AGES) the seven-day incidence (new infections in the last seven days per 100,000 inhabitants) in all Austrian Länder exceeded 1000. The incidence is highest in Tyrol (2606), Salzburg (2488) and Vienna (2219), the lowest in Styria (1023) and Burgenland (1064); in the whole of Austria it is at the level of 1674 (data as of 14.00 on Friday)
According to the APA, these data clearly show the rapid spread of the highly contagious coronavirus variant omicron. Three weeks ago, when omicron began to displace the delta variant, the seven-day incidence in Austria as a whole was 224 – an increase of 646 percent since then.
This is increasingly intensive care units, where the number of patients with COVID-19 has halved since Christmas and has recently stabilized at around 200. In contrast, patients with covid have started to increase significantly in mainstream wards. According to the latest AGES data, 904 patients with less severe covid were hospitalized, an increase of more than 200 per week.
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