After several days of failure, the interior and health ministries have subsequently delivered the corona numbers for Thursday up to and including Saturday. According to this, there were 24,260 new infections in Germany within 24 hours on Saturday, 25,346 on Friday and 24,314 on Thursday. That was well above the seven-day average of 21,345. The data problems have been eliminated – the reason for this is the high number of cases – but not.
Official figures for Sunday were not available for the time being, and it should not be expected during the course of the day, according to the APA request from the Ministry of Health.
Up to and including Saturday, including 17 subsequently reported deaths, 13,985 people in Austria have died of Covid-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic. A total of 70 deaths were recorded over the past seven days. 1,126 people were being treated in a hospital for the corona virus over the weekend, 18 more than on Friday. 194 were treated in an intensive care unit, down five from Friday. Within a week, the number of severe Covid cases in hospitals has decreased by 20.
According to the corona dashboard of the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the incidence has increased further to 1,767.0 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days (as of Saturday, 2 p.m.). In absolute numbers, 157,836 people were affected. In the past week, more people in Austria were infected with the corona virus than the city of Salzburg has inhabitants.
The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence is now Tyrol with 2,604.0, followed by Salzburg (2,558.7) and Vienna (2,305.8). It is lowest in Styria (1,157.0) and Burgenland (1,187.1). Carinthia (1,322.6), Lower Austria (1,346.6) and Upper Austria (1,618.0) are also below the Austrian average. Vorarlberg holds at 1,767.4.
The district with the highest seven-day incidence in Austria is Landeck in Tyrol with the tourist strongholds of St. Anton am Arlberg and Ischgl – it has reached previously unimagined heights at 4,232.6. Not far away are the neighboring districts of Imst with an incidence of 3,916.5 and Kitzbühel with 3,282.5. Of the nine Tyrolean districts, there are only two, Reutte and Lienz, with an incidence of less than 2,000. Similarly high incidences are found in Salzburg. St. Johann im Pongau has a value of 3,763.3, Zell am See 3,562.5. Tamsweg and Hallein are just below the 3,000 mark.
21,343 vaccinations against Covid-19 were carried out on Saturday. That was significantly fewer than on the two previous Saturdays with 33,540 (January 15) and 43,523 (January 8) respectively. According to the data from the e-vaccination card, a total of 6,724,061 people have already received at least one vaccination. Exactly 6,443,414 people and thus 72.1 percent of Austrians have a valid vaccination.
Of the 21,343 vaccinations on Saturday, 2,418 were first bites, or 11.33 percent. The number of first-time vaccinations was thus well below the seven-day average of 3,982. A total of 27,872 initial vaccinations were carried out within the past seven days. 3,871 vaccinations were second bites – that was also below average in the seven-day average (6,166). A total of 43,163 second stitches were administered within the past seven days.
The 15,054 third bites on Saturday corresponded to 70.53 percent of all vaccinations carried out. The number of third vaccinations was thus also below the seven-day average of 24,139. A total of 16,8976 third stitches were administered within the past seven days.
Vaccination rates by age group: 69.3 percent of those aged 12 to 24 have a valid vaccination certificate, 72.6 percent in those aged 25 to 34 and 75.8 percent among those aged 35 to 44.
77.6 percent of people between 45 and 54 years are verifiably protected against Covid-19 with a certificate, 84.8 percent in the group 55 to 64. The 65 to 74 year olds have a rate of 88.2 percent 75 to 84 year olds 90.4 percent and the group 85plus 85.5 percent. 11.2 percent are shown for children up to eleven years of age.