After two and a half years of pandemic, there is a change in the corona figures. Since Wednesday, Vienna has also reported SARS-CoV-2 infected hospital patients not being treated primarily for Covid-19. This represents an increase of about 90 people affected in hospital care. This will be reflected in hospital admission figures for all of Austria as of Thursday.
After criticism in Vienna’s clinics over the calculation of Covid hospital numbers in recent weeks, the federal capital now also distinguishes in its daily data reporting between patients with the main diagnosis of Covid-19 and those for whom Covid-19 is only a secondary diagnosis. “Due to the increased interest, the number of people who are in hospital with or because of Covid-19 is also shown in detail,” the town hall said on Wednesday. Until now, the city had only recorded the number of Covid 19 patients in the Covid and post-Covid wards and reported them separately for normal and intensive care.
Corona-infected people are now also being admitted to “non-Covid wards”, each also differentiated between normal and intensive care units. That means an increase of 89 patients in Vienna “with Corona” in normal care for Tuesday, according to the broadcast. The day before, there were no patients with a secondary diagnosis of Corona in an intensive care unit in the federal capital, but there were 29 intensive care patients in Covid and six in post-Covid wards who were being treated “because of Corona”.
As before in Vienna, only patients with the main diagnosis of Covid-19 are registered in Salzburg. According to the state’s daily report, there were 78 people in the state on Wednesday, two of whom had to be treated in an intensive care unit. If corona had been included as a secondary diagnosis, there would have been 117 patients in Salzburg on Wednesday morning. There are no plans in Salzburg to add patients “with corona” to those being treated “because of corona” and report them together, as is the case in Vienna.
In other states, all SARS-CoV-2 infected people are already registered in hospitals.
Source: Krone
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