From Tuesday, Vienna General Hospital (AKH) will test patients for the coronavirus before admitting them to hospital. The measure was taken against the background of the increasing number of infections. The condition is the consent of the person concerned, the report said. However, if you disagree with the test, it will not affect your admission.
“If there is a contamination, patients are placed in a separate room,” said a spokeswoman. “We have rooms where you can obviously isolate individual patients,” she explained. If multiple cases of infection occur, they can also be accommodated in a common area. According to the hospital, wearing a face mask is currently not mandatory. The measure serves to protect patients.
The number of corona infections is constantly increasing
The number of patients with corona infections has continuously increased in recent weeks. The SARI dashboard, which shows the numbers of patients in Austrian hospitals with severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), shows approximately 1,405 SARI admissions to normal wards across Austria for calendar week 44 (from October 30 to November 5). the past two weeks has not yet been completed). Of these, 674 cases are corona-related.
High corona wave expected
In the intensive care units, Corona was the reason for admission in 21 out of 53 cases in the same period. “We are heading for one of the highest Covid waves ever,” molecular biologist Ulrich Elling warned on Twitter a few days ago.
Source: Krone
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