5,826 new coronary infections in Austria | kurier.at

Friday, according to AGES 5,826 new corona infections. It was also a death reported in connection with the virus. Since the beginning of the pandemic already has it in Austria 5,458,604 confirmed cases given. In short, the Covid-19 pandemic from the eruption 21.029 Bag required in Austria.

To die 7-day incidence included throughout Austria 354.5.

According to today’s data from AGES, there are currently 1,328 infected in hospital, 25 fewer than on Thursday. In one week there was a decline of 680. 91 people are hospitalized in intensive care. That number has dropped by two since yesterday and dropped by eight patients in one week.

The corona hospital occupancy count has been changed

The reporting of numbers across Austria on hospital occupancy of coronary patients has been standardized. Until now, Vienna, for example, had also included post-Covid or long-term Covid patients who were no longer infectious in the wards. In the future, only the number of infected people in normal wards will be reported in the so-called capacity survey tool (KET).

The Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reports daily – except weekends – the number of patients who are in hospital with or because of Corona. “To continue to ensure the best possible uniformity of the counting method in detecting the capacity of the federal states and to map the dynamic development of the pandemic as accurately as possible, also from a technical point of view, henceforth only infectious beds 19 Registered cases will be reported in the care wards occupied with Covid cases. ” more infectious are counted and reported as Covid-19 cases.

The now changed definition applies to all federal states and has been in use since Wednesday. This capacity sensing tool is mainly used for system risk prediction and assessment. “The definitions have been made more precise in the context of the pandemic due to medical developments,” said the Ministry of Health two and a half years after the pandemic.

Numbers halved in Vienna

For Vienna, where the traffic light commission has often switched to red, this means that around 50 percent of hospital patients will no longer be registered in the future. Because according to the broadcast that the city sends every day, about 471 people were hospitalized in Vienna on Friday due to or with Covid-19. 105 positives were in the normal ward due to the primary coronary diagnosis, 108 positives due to other diseases. 231 people occupied the beds due to the Post Covid.

The distribution was similar in the intensive care unit: on Friday twelve infected people were admitted to intensive care in Covid wards, 15 people were hospitalized in intensive care in post Covid wards. This means that although these patients are no longer contagious, they are seriously ill after an infection. In any case, Vienna will continue to publish all data, even if only actively infected people are reported, according to the office of health councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ).

Long Covid or Post Covid is the secondary disease after a Covid 19 infection. If the symptoms persist for more than twelve weeks after an acute illness or if new ones appear, then it is called Long Covid. Symptoms are diverse and of varying severity, the World Health Organization lists around 200 long-time symptoms of Covid. According to a WHO analysis, at least 17 million people in Europe have been affected by long-standing symptoms of Covid in the first two years of the pandemic.