Disease wave is: still 275,000 people in sick leave!

Disease wave is: still 275,000 people in sick leave!

Österreich, Österreich - Austria remains affected by a massive wave of disease! According to the latest figures in the Austrian health insurance fund, 275,666 people are still on sick leave. This is a comparable value at the same time in the previous year when 275,764 people were on sick leave. Despite a decline of around 16,000 sufferers compared to the previous week, the situation remains alarming. Faster than the flu wave, the sick leave increased strongly during this time, and the majority of those affected struggle with a flu infection, such as OE24.at reported.

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The disease cases in Germany show a similar, albeit slightly declining tendency. An analysis by the IGES Institute shows that sick leave in 2024 has dropped by 5.4 percent by 0.1 percentage points. This means that around 54 out of 1,000 employed people are on sick leave every day. French and Italian health closures reduce the comparability between the countries, which makes the situation in Germany particularly noticeable. Thanks to electronic reporting procedures (EAU), one of the highest values ​​for the officially reported disease days, as it is shown in the OECD data, has the . Here the value for 2022 is 24.9 days and thus shows a high value in a European comparison.

The main cause of the sick reports in Germany are respiratory and muscle skeletal complaints, whose absent days have decreased more clearly, while mental illnesses have an increase of 5.7 percent. These developments throw a light on the challenges of the health system in both countries and increase the need to pay attention to placed hygiene measures and a healthy lifestyle to strengthen the immune system.