For the first time in weeks, there are negative trends on the Corona traffic light. A federal state has a higher risk number with Tyrol than a week ago, partly because the number of infections has increased. This puts the country at the traffic light in the high-risk orange sector. The same goes for Burgenland, while Carinthia is now yellow like the other countries – so there is a medium risk there.
From a risk number of 50 you are in the yellow zone, from 100 in the red of the maximum risk. Tyrol rose this week from 55.6 to 67.9. Vienna has the lowest risk number with 34.
Vienna with the most cases but the lowest risk number
That sounds paradoxical, given that the federal capital also has the highest raw case count. However, when choosing the color, other factors are also taken into account, such as the test readiness or the positivity percentage. With a whopping 39,000 tests per 100,000 inhabitants, Vienna still has the highest number. Just over 3,000 to 100,000 inhabitants live in Tyrol. In the federal capital, only 1.1 percent of all tests were positive, in Tyrol 11.5, which represents a significant increase in the positivity rate from the most recent 8.7 percent.
Plus three percent in Tyrol, otherwise declining everywhere
The drop in the number of cases last week was between twelve and 22 percent. The outlier was Tyrol with a plus of three percent. Reutte is also the district with the highest incidence in Tyrol. Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria is the district with the lowest value.
In a broadcast, the traffic light committee again found a moderate risk reduction in the majority of the federal states. Slight downward trends in infection incidence and hospital coverage are also expected, but moderate increases are also possible. More frequent sequencing is recommended due to the emergence of relatively new variants called BA.4/BA.5 and BA.2.12.
Source: Krone
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