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Anschober: peak between mid-April and mid-May. Over 1,000 infected people in Vienna. Tyrol continues to be hardest hit.
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Austria (as of 8:00 a.m.) rose from 6,909 to 7,697 cases within 24 hours from Friday to Saturday. This is an increase of 788 newly infected people. 800 of these people are in the hospital, 128 are in the intensive care unit.
On average over the past four days, the daily growth was around 17.2 percent, on Friday last week this value was still 23.0 percent, almost 6 percent higher. The 7,399 cases from Saturday, 8:00 a.m., broken down by federal state, continue to result in particularly high numbers of cases for Tyrol (1,801), Upper Austria (1,285) and Lower Austria (1,163). In the federal capital Vienna, 1,029 officially confirmed infections with SARS-CoV-2 were reported. This corresponds to 53 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants.
Crossing the 1,000 mark in Vienna sounds less dramatic if you compare the situation in Tyrol with this: In the Reutte district – the least affected district – the coronavirus was found in 28 people. The Ausserfern, however, has only 33,000 inhabitants. Extrapolated to 100,000 inhabitants, that would be 85.71 infected, which is comparatively significantly more than in Vienna.
At that time, 68 dead had officially died from the virus. Most of the deaths are to be found in Styria (17), Vienna (16) and Lower Austria (13), according to the figures from the Ministry on Friday. Compared to Friday, there is an increase of 19 victims.
Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober (Greens) expects the peak, the peak of the number of diseases, between mid-April and mid-May. But that is only his personal assessment. If the peak occurs later, it will be smaller, and that would be good news, “because then these measures were successful,” he said at a press conference.