Half of all new infections from coronavirus last week at Austria – 49.7% – relate to ages under 25 years.
This is a percentage of 49.7%, according to the APE-BPE, while the distance with the highest incidence of seven days (infections per 100,000 inhabitants) was found with 99.3 in the group of 15 to 24 years.
The average age of a person from new infections at calendar week 28 (July 12-18) was 29.6 years, withIn the corresponding calendar week last year, an infected person was on average 37 years old.
Current data released by the Food and Safety Administration, make clear how much the coronavirus is now affecting young people, of a total of 2,190 infections in the calendar week 28 (July 12-18), 935 or 42.7% were between the ages of 15 and 24, 119 or 5.4% were between the ages of six and 14, 36 or 1.6% were not even six years old.
While at the beginning of the pandemic the virus mainly affected and threatened the elderly, this population group now plays virtually no role in new infections, and only 3.8% of those infected last week – 84 people in absolute numbers – were aged over 65 years.
According to experts, this is mainly due to the fact that more three-quarters of all seniors have now received full vaccination protection.
Coronavirus: How many have been vaccinated in the country
Analytically, 84.6% of all over 85 years old are now fully immunized, at the ages of 75 to 84 years this percentage is 83.7%, between 65 and 74 years old 76.8% are fully immunized.
In contrast, according to current entries in the Electronic Vaccination Bulletin, only one-fifth of 12- to 24-year-olds – exactly 20.8% – are fully immunized, and 40.7% have received at least one vaccine dose, in the 25- to 25-year-old At 34 years old 37% are fully immunized, from 35 to 44 years old the percentage of immunized is 44.5%, which is significantly less than half.
Of the total population (8.9 million inhabitants), 58% of all citizens had received at least one first dose of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine by 21 July, and 46.8% are fully immunized.
The German Robert Koch Institute estimates that more than 80% of the population of a country should be vaccinated or have recovered from the disease in order to limit the spread of coronavirus without protective measures, however, children under the age of 12 are not vaccinated in Austria.
The Ministry of Health and the Interior in Vienna reported today, Thursday, 452 new infections in Austria in the last 24 hours, since the outbreak of the pandemic, 10,730 people have so far lost their lives due to coronavirus.
Currently, 102 people in the country are hospitalized and 26 of them are in intensive care units.
According to the Food and Safety Administration, the incidence of seven days, ie the number of new coronavirus infections in the last seven days per 100,000 inhabitants, is 26.8.
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