Due to Corona, Austria is still in lockdown until December 6th.
There is a glimmer of hope, but now the alarm bells are ringing in the Alpine republic.
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Coronavirus pandemic
* in Austria
: The
second corona wave
*
hits the Alpine republic with full force and ensures high
numbers of Covid-19 cases
.
The government of
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP)
decided on a
lockdown
until December 6th.
This
news ticker
is constantly updated.
Update November 24, 15:52
:
Skiverbot at Christmas
?
Austria is sensitive to the proposals.
Austria's Finance Minister Gernot Blümel demands money from Brussels immediately if ski resorts are not allowed to open until after the Christmas holidays.
"If the EU really wants that, it has to pay for it," said Blümel on Tuesday.
For Austria, a ski ban at Christmas means sales losses of 2.4 billion euros.
The EU would then have to pay compensation of 2 billion euros, said Gernot.
Austria: Corona vaccinations start in January
Update from November 24th, 11:23 am
: Austria wants to
start
corona vaccinations
in "January"
.
The Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) announced this on Tuesday, reports the
ORF
.
Vaccinations should begin in old people's and nursing homes for people over 65 and for staff.
High-risk groups with defined pre-existing conditions have the highest priority.
The general population will then be vaccinated from the second quarter of 2021.
Safety is the top priority and not the time factor.
Which vaccine would be used first depends on availability, reports
krone.at
.
According to the Minister of Health,
4,377 new infections have been
recorded in
the past 24 hours
.
Compared to last Tuesday, this number would be significantly lower.
100 people died in connection with Sars-CoV-2.
In Austria, the pressure on clinics is growing.
Of the 116,966 active corona cases in Austria, 3,775 have to be treated in hospital, according to the AGES dashboard.
683 Covid-19 patients are in the intensive care unit.
Corona in Austria: Alternative quarters should now relieve clinics
According to
ORF,
“alternative quarters” are being created
in Upper Austria
to relieve the hospitals.
Patients can continue to receive in-patient care there if they no longer need acute treatment.
142 beds are to be available at three locations at the beginning of December.
It is expected that these "alternative quarters" will be used for at least four months.
"The situation is still serious," warned Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) on
ORF
, regarding the utilization of intensive care beds.
The intensive care beds in Upper Austria are currently 88 percent full, according to AGES.
Corona in Austria: Third wave should be prevented - winter tourism threatens complete knockout
Update from November 23, 4:30 p.m.:
Austria
benefits from ski tourism like hardly any other country.
And so an entire
tourism industry is
shaking
as it continues after the second
corona lockdown
on December 6th.
Specifically: Can the
ski areas
reopen over the winter months or do they stay closed?
As reported by the Roman daily
La Repubblica
, the Italian government wants to negotiate with neighboring Alpine countries to
collectively
ban skiing holidays over
Christmas
.
This
is said to prevent
a
third Covid 19 wave
.
Well-known ski areas such as
St. Anton am Arlberg
are currently still optimistic on social media that things could start again soon - with winter tourism in
Austria
.
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Corona pandemic in Austria: "The number of new infections is still dramatically high"
Update from November 23, 12.15 p.m .:
“The number of new infections is still dramatically high.” With this pathetic sentence,
Austria's
Minister of Health
Rudolf “Rudi” Anschober (The Greens)
assessed
the
corona situation
in a press conference on Monday morning.
685 people in the Alpine republic are currently being
cared for
in
intensive care units
because of
Covid-19
, the head of department continued.
The number of intensively medically treated patients has been hovering around this value for days at just under 700.
Most recently, doctors in
Austria had
repeatedly warned that capacities would reach their limits.
For example, in the federal capital Vienna (almost 1.9 million inhabitants) only two
intensive care beds
were available in the meantime
.
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Health Minister Austria: Rudolf "Rudi" Anschober.
© Helmut Fohringer / dpa
Update from November 23, 10:30 a.m.:
The number of
new coronavirus infections
is
apparently
falling
in
Austria
.
According
to the Ministry of Health
, there were
3145 newly registered corona cases
within 24 hours
as of Monday morning
.
Austria also
reported
71 new deaths
related to the insidious lung disease.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: Corona outbreak at the police station in Linz
First report from November 23rd:
Munich / Linz -
In the
Corona pandemic
*,
the
police
are
the great admonisher and enforcer of the
Covid-19
* restrictions
- whether in
Germany
or
Austria
.
But what if the officials themselves
(cannot) adhere
to the
distance
rules?
At the beginning of the
coronavirus crisis
, this was often a point of criticism via social media, for example when citizens
complained
about full
police
vans.
Corona pandemic in Austria: 45 police officers infected with the corona virus in a precinct
Now there is a
corona outbreak on a police station in Austria!
To be more precise, in
Linz
in Upper
Austria
.
As the authorities
confirmed to
the news portal
krone.at
, 45 officers from the police control center for emergency calls tested positive for the
SARS-CoV-2 pathogen
.
The tests were ordered after the virus was detected in a police officer.
According to the
Kronen Zeitung newspaper
, the department has a total of 85 civil servants - which means that more than half were infected.
Striking: According to the report, the emergency call center is currently located in a different area because the control center is being rebuilt.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: Police apparently did not comply with Covid-19 distance rules
And: in the alternative precinct, the rooms are too small, which is why the police officers sit together in groups of several employees in narrow offices.
Doesn't sound like an exemplary implementation of the AHA rules.
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