44,465 corona infections were reported in Austria on Saturday, one week after the “opening day” with most of the measures being largely eliminated, with the exception of Vienna. With this record value for this weekday, the seven-day average increased to 39,510, the seven-day incidence to 3,079.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and is thus again over 3,000.
The opening steps acted as “infection accelerators”, last Saturday 31,289 new infections and 289,414 active cases were counted, now there are 373,314, an increase of almost 30 percent in seven days. The increase in hospital patients was less drastic, 2,754 people and reported on Saturday, a week ago it was 2,547, which means an increase of around eight percent. The number of intensive care patients fell by ten percent or 21 to 181 people in the same period.
There have been seventeen deaths since yesterday, the seven-day average was 27.7 a day and a total of 194 deaths in one week. In total, the Covid 19 pandemic has claimed 15,180 lives in Austria since it broke out.
A total of 664,807 rapid PCR and antigen tests were reported in the past 24 hours, of which 615,523 were more meaningful PCR tests with a positive rate of 7.2 percent. This 24-hour figure is slightly below last week’s average of 7.9 percent.
5,198 vaccinations were carried out on Friday, of which 468 were first bites. 69.4 percent of Austrians have a valid vaccination, so this proportion is declining: last Saturday it was 69.9 percent. In the age group over 55, however, the vaccination protection is beyond 80 percent, in the 75 to 84 year olds it is 88.2 percent and in the group 85plus it is 85.4 percent. 14.2 percent are shown for children up to eleven years of age.
The federal state with the highest seven-day incidence is currently Vorarlberg with 3,538.8, followed by Styria, Lower Austria and Upper Austria (3,532.2, 3,498 and 3,208.2 respectively). Salzburg (3,116.4), Burgenland (2,837.1), Tyrol (2,730.4), Carinthia (2,583.1) and Vienna (2,533.6) follow. In the last four federal states, the incidence is below the Austrian average of 3,079.9.