‘Worrying’: Austria records most weekly deaths since 1978
Austria has recorded the highest tally of deaths in a week for over 40 years.
Statistics Austria recorded 2,431 deaths in the final week of November (16th to 23rd), the highest weekly tally since February of 1978.
The highest comparable week in recent years was at the start of 2017, when 2,340 died amid an Austrian flu wave.
Statistics Austria Director Tobias Thomas said the increase was a “worrying development”, Kronen Zeitung reports.
#Sterbefälle in KW47 mit 2.431 Toten in Österreich in einer einzigen Woche so hoch wie seit 42 Jahren nicht mehr (58% über dem Durchschnitt des Vergleichszeitraums der Jahre 2015 bis 2019) https://t.co/2wOfeGo5fA#Infografik #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/6ycxLsHavq
— Statistik Austria (@STATISTIK_AT) December 3, 2020
All in all, 77,662 people have died so far in Austria in 2020 - a 6.5 percent increase on the average across the past five years.
#Sterbefälle in KW47 mit 2.431 Toten in Österreich in einer einzigen Woche so hoch wie seit 42 Jahren nicht mehr (58% über dem Durchschnitt des Vergleichszeitraums der Jahre 2015 bis 2019) https://t.co/2wOfeGo5fA#Infografik #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/6ycxLsHavq
— Statistik Austria (@STATISTIK_AT) December 3, 2020
The high tally was recorded from February 20th to 26th, 1978.
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Statistics Austria recorded 2,431 deaths in the final week of November (16th to 23rd), the highest weekly tally since February of 1978.
The highest comparable week in recent years was at the start of 2017, when 2,340 died amid an Austrian flu wave.
Statistics Austria Director Tobias Thomas said the increase was a “worrying development”, Kronen Zeitung reports.
#Sterbefälle in KW47 mit 2.431 Toten in Österreich in einer einzigen Woche so hoch wie seit 42 Jahren nicht mehr (58% über dem Durchschnitt des Vergleichszeitraums der Jahre 2015 bis 2019) https://t.co/2wOfeGo5fA#Infografik #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/6ycxLsHavq
— Statistik Austria (@STATISTIK_AT) December 3, 2020
All in all, 77,662 people have died so far in Austria in 2020 - a 6.5 percent increase on the average across the past five years.
#Sterbefälle in KW47 mit 2.431 Toten in Österreich in einer einzigen Woche so hoch wie seit 42 Jahren nicht mehr (58% über dem Durchschnitt des Vergleichszeitraums der Jahre 2015 bis 2019) https://t.co/2wOfeGo5fA#Infografik #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/6ycxLsHavq
— Statistik Austria (@STATISTIK_AT) December 3, 2020
The high tally was recorded from February 20th to 26th, 1978.
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