- Title: 173 AT COVID-19 Zams hospital
- Date: 26th March 2020
- Description:Hospital in Tyrol with currently 54 people being treated with Covid-19, 11 of them in intensive care The actual numbers in Austria: 6398 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 547 persons are treated in hospital, 96 of them need intensive care. 35.995 tests have been done, 49 people died, 112 have recovered and diagnosed healthy again. Today an ORF crew was in a hospital in Zams, Tyrol. The hospital is located a few kilometers away from the so-called hotspots Ischgl and St. Anton am Arlberg. Only one week ago the first patients with COVID-19 arrived at the hospital in Zams. Since then, five to ten more patients arrived every day. Currently, 54 people are being treated with Covid-19 in Zams, 11 of them need intensive care, and not only elderly people are affected. Alois Süssenbacher, medical director of the crisis team in Zams, says that the average age of the COVID-19-patients in Zams is 50 years. Shotlist -VS outside hospital, red cross, entrance area -Registration desk with special safety glass, doctor in protective clothing walking by -Intensive Care Unit, doctor and nurse preparing a room, several CL (doctor, medical device) -ambulance, entrance to intensive care unit, face masks, screen, CL hand of patient, screen, nurse -Group of doctors in an intensive care unit with patient -CL respirator -WS of Zams, empty streets, one ambulance driving -Poster: “We are here for you, please you stay at home for us” -Ambulance driving to hospital SOUNDBITE (German) Alois Suessenbacher, Medical Director of Crisis Team: "The average age of our intensive care patients is currently 50 years. So we have mainly younger patients in the intensive care unit who are really seriously ill with lung disease. So, what they say, that it is a disease of the elderly, I can't confirm that here." -doctors and nurses in protective clothing
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:26/03/2020
- Decade: 2020s