According to the working document of the committee – available to the APA – three states, Lower and Upper Austria and Tyrol, could be classified at school risk level three on Thursday. This means, among other things, a mask for high school students and teachers.
So far, all countries have been at level two, which is essentially normal operation plus testing three times a week. That changes pretty drastically with level three. In addition to the mask arrangement, school events such as hiking days or ski courses are prohibited, and lessons with external partners such as associations are no longer allowed. Conferences and parenting days must take place in digital form.
Since the 14-day trend for new infections continues to point upwards everywhere, all federal states logically stay in the red area at the traffic lights, which expresses a very high risk of infection. Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg and Vorarlberg threaten to climb above the critical 33 percent mark in intensive capacities in the next two weeks. The trend among people over 65 is still negative across the whole of Germany, and the number of infections in this age group is also rising sharply.
How dangerous the situation in the country is now is illustrated by the risk figure that results from the factors relevant to the color scheme. The orange area of the already high risk begins below 100 and the federal state with the current best value, the federal capital, is at 214. Tyrol, as the country with the worst, is at 1057. A week ago, the risk number there was 581.
Only 23 percent of the cases in Austria are asymptomatic, which on the one hand is likely to be related to the more violent course of the delta variant, but also to the comparatively low test level. In Tyrol, a latecomer country in this regard, only one percent of the cases that emerged were described as asymptomatic. Vienna tests by far the most and then also has a 47 percent share of asymptomatic cases.
Only 35 percent of cases nationwide are clarified, clearly the most in Vienna and Burgenland, the least, namely 20 and 27 percent, respectively, in Upper Austria and Tyrol. Upper Austria also has by far the highest raw and risk-adjusted seven-day incidence of cases. Vöcklabruck was recently the district with the worst values, followed by Waidhofen / Ybbs and Braunau. Hollabrunn, Bruck / Mur and Mödling are still in the best shape.
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