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Kurz: Austria doing better than any country in Europe

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday that Austria is doing better than any country in Europe whe nit comes to the coronavirus outbreak.

Kurz stressed that the COVID-19 infection rate in the country is very low at only 2.1% and that the number of recovered patients is larger than new confirmed cases.

Furthermore, Austria also has the strongest decline in the number of patients in intensive care in Europe with only 254 people in intensive care. According to the latest figures, Austria conducted over 111,000 coronavirus tests, registered a total of 12,072 COVID-19 infections and the country's death toll stands at 220, while the number of recovered patients is 3,463.

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