Austria continues to struggle with the coronavirus pandemic. Corona outbreaks occur in two Swiss Post logistics centers. Now there are new facts.
- Austria does not come to rest in the Corona crisis * despite the containment of the Covid 19 pandemic *.
- Dozens of coronavirus infections were found in a post distribution center near Vienna .
- Did employees deliver the mail despite Sars CoV-2 infection ? Soldiers of the Federal Army must now take over the tasks.
Corona scandal in Austria: Despite quarantine - Post employees went to work
Update from May 19, 2020, 12.20 p.m .: The Austrian Armed Forces are sorting parcels in a mail distribution center in Hagenbrunn. Since Sunday, 250 soldiers to support the post, reports the Orf.at . A corona outbreak has occurred in the distribution center in Hagenbrunn in Lower Austria (see below). Employees got infected. According to Orf.at, Swiss Post has also requested support for the Inzersdorf location in Vienna .
The corona outbreaks is becoming a scandal. Allegations of insufficient control of the home quarantine against the city of Vienna are being made. Many of the workers working in Hagenbrunn would live in Vienna. 63 of them tested positive for the coronavirus. As reported by oe24.at , four Corona patients ignored the quarantine measures. Despite being infected, they simply continued working in the post distribution center in Hagenbrunn. The consequences are serious. There are now 158 corona cases.
The city of Vienna waives on-site checks in the quarantine. The health authorities only send SMS that could be answered from anywhere, it is said.
Coronavirus scandal surrounding post centers: have dozens of infected letters and parcels delivered?
First report from May 16, 2020:
Munich / Vienna - Austria has its next scandal in the coronavirus pandemic after Ischgl. And that despite extensive protective measures such as a mask requirement * and successes in the Corona crisis .
Specifically, it is about the post office in neighboring Germany and its two largest logistics centers in Eastern Austria: Hagenbrunn and Vienna-Inzersdorf .
Corona scandal at Austrian Post: "Extremely dramatic"
"The situation is dramatic in the highest degree," said a high-ranking insiders Post AG, according to news portal oe24.at . According to the report, 138 coronavirus infections were found in the logistics centers by Saturday afternoon (May 16) .
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In Hagenbrunn , which is 20 kilometers north of the Austrian capital, there were 68 positive Corona cases among 650 employees.
In Inzersdorf in the southwest of the metropolis, 70 corona cases have been identified with just as many employees . In the meantime, both logistics centers were completely paralyzed.
Coronavirus scandal at Austrian Post: soldiers have to help
The Austrian army had to advance to Hagenbrunn . The center of excellence for combating nuclear, biological and chemical threats "decontaminated" the buildings there, according to the authorities.
Soldiers are now supposed to maintain an emergency operation to distribute parcels, deliveries and letters.
Soldiers from the #Bundesheeres will take on tasks in the post distribution center Hagenbrunn for the next 14 days. The building is decontaminated beforehand by @kdoabc specialists. The post is paid for by the Post. # COVID19 pic.twitter.com/DJvSdg1Uyl
- Michael Bauer (@Bundesheerbauer) May 15, 2020According to krone.at , a temporary agency company is to be responsible for bringing employees to the distribution centers. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the personnel infected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 continued to work after the infections. It is unclear whether the company and the post office had known about it, it said.
Corona cases also in the German parcel center near Heinsberg
According to Krone.at , six corona cases were also found in the logistics center of a large furniture store in Floridsdorf. More than 165,000 citizens live in Vienna's northernmost district.
Striking: Even in the corona crisis in Germany *, a parcel center with 400 employees was quarantined near the Heinsberg hotspot because of new corona cases. Are new Corona cookers emerging in logistics centers?
Despite the army deployment threatens loudly oe24.at a day-long chaos in the postal delivery of luggage in the Alpine republic. And after the first border openings to Bavaria * were agreed, the examples show that the Covid 19 pandemic in Austria is far from being contained.
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* merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
