Too few beds in Salzburg – does Austria need even stricter measures?
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The vaccination pressure in Austria has been increased every week by new rules. Now a first balance should be drawn. Are there any harder cuts necessary?
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In Austria, a lockdown for unvaccinated people was introduced on Monday.
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The Green Minister of Health will reassess the pandemic situation on Wednesday.
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He is considering a night curfew for everyone – to the annoyance of the ÖVP.
Shortly after the introduction of ever stricter corona measures for unvaccinated people in Austria, many doctors are calling for further restrictions for the general population. Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein will assess the pandemic situation and the effect of the latest Covid rules on Wednesday green. With his latest move for a nightly curfew for everyone, he caused a row with Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg and his conservative ÖVP, who are resisting a general lockdown.
At the beginning of the month, the 3G rule was introduced in the workplace. Companies need to check that their staff has been vaccinated, recovered from Covid-19 or tested. On November 8th, the 2G rule will follow for bars, tourism, sports facilities and events where unvaccinated nuns are no longer allowed. And since Monday, people without vaccination have been obliged to lockdown. You are only allowed to leave the house for work and urgent errands.
Triage in Salzburg
The sharp increase in vaccination numbers in recent days has not yet slowed the rapid spread of the virus. The seven-day incidence last climbed above 900 for the first time. In Salzburg it reached a broad Austrian peak at just under 1600. Salzburg clinics are preparing triage procedures in order to decide which patients may die in scarce hospital beds and which must be turned away. In other federal states, too, some operations have already been postponed.
The association of intensive care physicians and hospital doctors therefore called for tougher cuts in order to break the fourth wave. The General Director for Public Health in the Ministry of Health, Katharina Reich, is calling for evening exit restrictions for everyone. “I think we need that,” she told ORF on Tuesday evening.
Instead of restricting vaccinated people, the goal must be to get unvaccinated people to have the first stab, said Chancellor Schallenberg in parliament on Tuesday. he wiped the demands of Mückstein, who is himself a doctor, no longer quite as brusquely from the table as just a few days ago. “We will of course monitor the situation very closely,” he said. If necessary, they can be sharpened.
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(DPA / chk)