Corona: The situation in Austria is becoming more and more dramatic - complete “lockdown” is apparently imminent

The corona situation in Austria is still worrying.

The capacity limits in the hospitals could soon be reached.

A “hard lockdown” is expected to come.

• Coronavirus in Austria

  : The 

  second wave * of

   the 

  corona pandemic * is

   causing high numbers of infections.

• Experts warn that the

  capacity limit of

  many

  hospitals could

  soon be reached.

• The

  staff of

  a clinic

  appealed

  to the population

  via Facebook

  .

• This

  news ticker

  is updated regularly.

Update from November 13, 5:06 p.m.:

Due to rising

after a week and a half of

,

is planning to

tighten the measures.

The government wants to announce details this Saturday, as the

confirmed

to the

on Friday

.

According to media reports, a press conference is planned for the afternoon.

According to information from the

, there will be a joint appearance by Chancellor

with Vice Chancellor

, Minister of Health

and Minister of the Interior

, in which the details of the tightened or new

presented.

Accordingly, a "hard lockdown" is expected to come from next Tuesday.

The

is said to have already agreed to

.

As in the spring, the food sector, drugstores, banks and pharmacies should be excluded.

If the

situation allows, the shops should be allowed to reopen for Christmas, the

reports

.

However, the complete

and the changeover of all students to distance learning

should be controversial

.

Chancellor

should be convinced of the importance of this measure, Health Minister

and Education Minister

against it.

The

spoke at their meeting on Thursday against school closures and for "more lenient measures", such as a

in the classroom, out.

Corona in Austria: Another high for the number of new infections

Update from November 13th, 3:22 p.m.:

On Friday, the authorities in Austria reported a new high in the number of new corona infections.

In total, there were

from Thursday to Friday.

There are currently

in hospital treatment,

in

.

The number of

for the respective

at a glance:

• Vienna

  : 1902

• Upper Austria

  : 1891

• Lower Austria

  : 1123

• Carinthia

  : 1006

• Vorarlberg

  : 975

• Styria

  : 944

• Salzburg

  : 837

• Tyrol

  : 727

• Burgenland

  : 184

Corona in Austria: the situation is becoming more and more dramatic

First report from November 13th:

Vienna - On Thursday,

again set a new

for the number of

new

.

With

the previous days,

within one day.

The weekly average is likely to be well over 7,000 daily infections and thus

exceed

the capacities of

in the near future

.

Around half of the available

in

are already occupied.

Experts and hospital staff have expressed concern about the situation.

Corona in Austria: Expert describes the situation in hospitals

Dr.

Günter Weiss

is an infectiologist and director of internal medicine at the

.

On Thursday he described in the television program

how critical the situation in

is.

"I assume that in two weeks the number will not double, but will be significantly higher," warned the expert.

In

, 60 percent of the

are already

occupied.

In addition, the

is also

a problem.

“We haven't been doing anything else for eight months and the people are bleeding out somehow in the truest sense of the word.

The employees get worn down because they are always dealing with this topic, they don't think about anything else for 24 hours, ”explained

.

He appealed to the population

to take

the

seriously.

Corona in Austria: Clinic staff report on Facebook with an appeal

The staff at the

in

in

to the population

via Facebook

.

In their posting they make it clear that the situation is serious.

The

asks for

: “We at Klinikum Freistadt urgently ask!

EVERYONE HELP! ”In addition, four pictures are attached showing the staff treating

patients.

"If the virus continues to spread so quickly and the number of Covid patients who come to the hospital at the same time increases steadily, the health system will reach its limits," warns the hospital staff.

Corona in Austria: "Hard lockdown" should come

At the weekend in

a "

" is to be negotiated, as reported by several media.

That would mean a partial closure for trading and

also during the day.

The effects of the

so far

are not yet reflected in the number of

.

“The impact is currently very, very low.

We hoped that the measures are more effective, "said

, a member of the forecasting team is the Ministry of Health, opposite

.

A decision should therefore be made on the basis of today's data.

Peter Klimek

is a physicist and also a member of the

.

He

explained to the

that the chaos of late registrations

made it difficult to

draw conclusions about the

the

.

"Right now, when we have to assess whether further measures are necessary, it is impossible to say whether the existing ones are working," said

.

However, it is clear: “We can rule out that the number of cases will drop drastically.

The aim must be to lower it - the only tool we know is the lockdown. ”

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