Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Austria rise to 10

VIENNA - Four more people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, taking the total number of Austrian cases to 10 on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health.

A 52-year-old woman from Styria has become the seventh person tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Austria, said State Health Councilor Juliane Bogner-Strauss at a press conference on Saturday morning.

The woman showed first symptoms after visiting a trade fair in northern Italy. "She has come back from a risk area and has a slight infection," said Bogner-Strauss.

Coronavirus cases No eight and nine are a couple who had contact with the infected Viennese couple being treated in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital in the capital, according to Lower Austria Deputy Governor Stephan Pernkopf.

The State of Salzburg reported on Saturday afternoon that one person had tested positive for the coronavirus. It is a 36-year-old woman who stayed in Turin, Italy, last weekend.

According to Governor Wilfried Haslauer, the woman comes from Vienna, but lives in Pinzgau in the state of Salzburg. She has symptoms of an influenza and is currently in home quarantine.

To sum up, there are now ten cases in the Alpine country, including four cases in Vienna, two each in Tyrol and Lower Austria and one each in Salzburg and Styria, and thus the coronavirus has been detected in five of nine federal states.

According to the Ministry of Health, 1,649 tests had already been carried out across Austria by Saturday afternoon.

In the case of a 72-year-old patient who was seriously ill in Vienna, the search continues for the source of the infection. According to a spokesman for Vienna City Councilor Peter Hacker, the man was still unresponsive on Saturday.