Salzburg is fighting against Corona: Crisis summit near Bavaria’s border – even lockdown in conversation
Corona infections are exploding in the Austrian state of Salzburg. There is a crisis summit with Vienna. A lockdown is not ruled out – for the unvaccinated and vaccinated. The news ticker.
Munich / Salzburg – The Bavarian Freilassing (around 15,000 inhabitants) and the inner city of the Austrian Salzburg with its 150,000 inhabitants are just eight kilometers apart. While Bavaria and Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) have once again declared a disaster in the coronavirus pandemic on this Wednesday (November 10), the alarm bells are also ringing on the Salzach.
Because: The 7-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants in the state of Salzburg (almost 550,000 inhabitants) was 933 at the same time. That means: The corona infection numbers are also skyrocketing in Austria and here in particular on the northern edge of the Alps. How in many places. Federal Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) therefore called a crisis summit by video call with Governor Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP), which will also be attended by Governor of Upper Austria, Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP), on this Wednesday afternoon.
Corona in Upper Austria and Salzburg: Crisis summit with Federal Minister of Health Mückstein
Because: In the northern Austrian state, which borders Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria, was 7 day incidence* even at very high 1,173.5. “It is clear that we have to act quickly, decisively and comprehensively,” says Mückstein, according to the news portal oe24.at: “We have to take the situation very seriously. The number of infections is increasing rapidly. The solution lies before us, that is vaccination. “
In the video: Corona numbers in Austria remain at a very high level
On Wednesday there were 11,398 new ones in the Alpine republic Corona cases * reported that the situation in the intensive care units was tense, it said. Striking: To a possible one Blocking* for everyone, said Mückstein according to the report: “We have all learned that you cannot rule out anything in a pandemic.”
Follow the corona development in Bavaria’s neighbors in Upper Austria and Salzburg here in the news ticker. (pm) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA