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Have 4 family members that have been tested positive for COVID-19 in Austria:

- Male (56), no symptoms except weak voice

- Female (55), no symptoms

- Male (80), light fever (37,7C), weak voice

- Female (81), no symptoms

These cases are all connected, and we have talked with others that seem to have caught the same variant/mutation. None of them does really show symptoms, no hospitalizations, no real fever, and no hard breathing. Hope this is a light variant/mutation, and the situation stays the same for them.

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As for some context where these infections came from: There apparently was one "hot spot" in a famous Austrian ski resort, and there specifically in a famous local bar. The official rumor (in German: https://orf.at/#/stories/3157846/) is that the local barkeeper was infected, and infected many tourists that visited this bar, Austrians as well as tourists from abroad, especially Scandinavia.

Male (56) was in this ski resort for a week as well, though not in this particular bar as far as I know.

So it really seems that these measures to keep people at home and close up all "gathering spots" is the right way to tackle this!

I hope you can update this this in 5 days, 10 days, and 15 days so we can see if/when symptoms change or appear.

And how long ago, or what day, were they tested?

They were tested on Wednesday and Thursday, results came back the next morning.

Will report back in those intervals, thanks for the idea!

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Update: All of my CoV-positive relatives are very well, and Male (80) just had light fever (~38,3 C) for 4 nights straight, but is now fever-free since two days ago (22.03.).

So all of them did neither show symptoms, nor had any health issues, with the exception of Male (80) with light fever.

I wish there's a way for people to self-report and self-track their progress if they have the virus/disease. Having real numbers, not the number determined by Xi or Trump or [insert your hated government baffoon here], would be useful.

Sadly something like that would probably have a lot of trolls, and hypochondriacs.

This looks quite good: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820...

Is there a significant amount of testing going on in Austria, compared to other countries? I'm suprised that you mention these people were tested without symptoms.

The amount of testing seems to be ramping up, but we also hear reports that results now take up to three days to get back, where we got the results for our tests (which happened on Wednesday and Thursday) on the next day.

As for symptoms: Male (56) fought quite hard to get one, as he had long direct contact with a positive-tested person. Male (80) got one because of "risk group" (age) and symptoms (light fever).

I read that here in the Netherlands the testing capacity is limited by a shortage of little plastic slabs that hold ~90 test samples at a time. One tactic to increase capacity is to not test the samples until the slab is full, which also delays test results.

14.03.2020, 15:00 Tests: 7.467 Confirmed: 655 recovered: 6 dead: 1

Austria has approx. 8 Mio inhabitants

official source: https://www.sozialministerium.at/Informationen-zum-Coronavir...

My best wishes for your family, i hope they don't experience any worse symptoms! Just out of curiosity, how long is it since they have been tested positive?

They were tested on Wednesday and Thursday, results came back the next morning.

Could it still be the incubation period?

I/we don't really know - there is not much direct information available from doctors/medical personell, as this still feels like everyone is "just learning/reading up on this" and still gathering all the information. Also, local authorities struggle to keep everything in order, meaning they try to contact/call everyone who had contact, but the people on the phone do also not have much information for you. But they do their best, for sure!

We got those phone calls from the local authorities about the test results yesterday/Thursday, and they couldn't really tell us about any medical details or what will happen. Will get in touch (haha!) with our local doctor on Monday, maybe he has some more info on the test results themselves, or if they could still be in the incubation period, what the next steps will be, etc.

For now anybody infected or anybody who was in direct contact for more than 15 minutes with them is in isolation at home, as per official order by the local authorities.

Quick update on this:

The 4 relatives of mine mentioned that were CoV-positive do show no symptoms. They are under authority-mandated quarantine "until we tell them otherwise/until revoked", but the authorities can not tell us how to get out of this quarantine.

Some people say that two nevative CoV-test results in a 48h-period are necessary, but getting those tests (would be 8 tests for those 4 people) in an 48h period seems to be impossible.

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