Still increasing – still low risk in all states

Under the previous mode, the three western states should have fallen back into the yellow zone of medium risk today. This is mainly because there is very little testing in the West and therefore very few asymptomatic cases. So far, this has pushed up the risk figure, even with relatively low case numbers.

Vienna rejects the commission model
Health Austria GmbH and the Ministry of Social Affairs now considered that these data were no longer meaningful due to the low numbers. Valid and comparable detection of asymptomatic cases is currently not possible, according to a committee paper available to the APA. Therefore, the factor for the asymptomatic cases was eliminated and an ommicron deduction was introduced instead, which is intended to reflect the low probability of hospitalization compared to previous variants. Only Vienna rejected the model in the committee.

The risk rate improved rapidly in all countries, especially in those countries that do more or less without testing, ie have a relatively high number of unreported cases. The test-loving countries of the East are practically punished. As a result, Vienna, which according to the old calculation would have had the sixth best risk figure, now has the worst value. Lower Austria also benefits relatively little from the new model (from 20 to 14). The risk number in Vorarlberg has fallen from 29 to 13 and in Tyrol from 28 to twelve.

The number of cases is increasing in Vienna and in the west
This numbers game will not change the trend much. The number of infections is already rising sharply in four countries. Vienna and the three western states are affected, especially Vorarlberg by a plus of 30 percent, with values ​​also deteriorating in all districts of the “country”. There, as in Vienna, the number is also increasing among 65-year-olds who are particularly at risk. Only in Styria and Burgenland is there a noticeable decrease in the number of cases.

Vienna still has the highest raw number of cases, but it’s also where the most testing is done, almost twice as often per capita as in the second most industrious state, Lower Austria. The positive rates in the tests in the three eastern states are also less than two percent, while they are more than seven percent in the three western states. The lowest incidence was in Voitsberg last week and the highest in Vienna before Bregenz.

The average of the new calculation method was used not so long ago. In mid-February, there was a reaction to Omikron for the first time, and even stronger than this time. At that time, Vienna, as the “best” state, improved its risk figure from 1,473 to 150.8 within a week.