In Austria, the corona situation differs greatly from region to region.
The government around Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) therefore wanted to consult on Monday, but now the Corona summit has burst.
The corona numbers in Austria have increased again in the past few weeks.
The infection process in the Alpine republic differs greatly from region to region.
The government around Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) wanted to discuss measures at the Corona summit, but now the summit has burst.
This news ticker on the corona situation in Austria is updated regularly.
Update from March 22nd, 5:20 p.m.:
The Corona summit in Austria has burst!
This is now reported by oe24.at.
Accordingly, an agreement could not be reached in the previous negotiations in the afternoon, but this week there will be a separate meeting between the Ministry of Health, Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland.
Austria is initially foregoing further nationwide steps in the corona crisis.
The previous path will be continued in most
federal states, government circles said on Monday after a consultation with the prime minister.
As soon as a district reaches a seven-day incidence of 400, regionally tailored measures should be implemented.
Further opening steps were not ruled out either.
These should be possible after Easter if the development in the
intensive care units remains stable.
In the future, not only the incidence value will be used to assess the situation, but above all also the occupancy rate in the intensive care units and the vaccination rate for those over 50 years of age.
Update from March 22nd, 4 p.m.:
While Germany is waiting eagerly on Monday for the measures currently decided by the federal and state governments after the Corona summit, the people of Austria are also looking to the government.
Because in Austria too, the federal government is discussing the current course of action in the corona pandemic in the afternoon.
And as oe24.at reports, citing FPÖ boss Norbert Hofer, a small decision is said to have already been made.
Accordingly, it was agreed that freedom of travel for Austrians would be restricted until the summer.
A quarantine should continue to be ordered for travelers.
Corona in Austria: Which measures will be decided today?
Update from March 22nd, 1:55 p.m.:
The ideas about what school operations should look like after the Easter holidays in view of the very different regional infections in Austria differ widely.
Parents' associations at middle and higher schools
(BEV) demand that older pupils also be able to return from switching to face-to-face classes at least regionally.
Teacher
representatives, on the other hand, see a need for regional tightening.
"If the bars are allowed to open in Vorarlberg, it is difficult to understand why the students are working shifts at the same time," BEV President Christoph Drexler told the APA news agency.
The hygiene rules in schools are already stricter than in many other areas of life.
Students are also tested regularly and wear masks, some of them FFP2 masks.
"We therefore consider a return to face-to-face teaching to be the order of the day," said Drexler.
The top teacher representative Paul Kimberger (FCG), however, has spoken out in favor of regionally differentiated measures.
He told the APA: "Here and there we will need tightening." A return to general presence operations is not feasible under the current conditions.
Corona in Austria: Numbers continue to rise - significant regional differences
First report from March 22nd:
Vienna - Three weeks ago, after a Corona summit with the provincial governors, the Austrian government announced that outdoor restaurants would open at Easter.
However, the corona numbers have risen significantly since then.
At that time, the nationwide 7-day incidence was 159, on Monday it was 236. The government around Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is therefore advising today at a corona summit with experts and state governors on the further corona strategy in the Alpine republic.
The results are to be presented in a press conference in the late afternoon.
Due to the significantly increased corona numbers *, further nationwide opening steps are probably off the table for the time being.
Rather, it could come to regionally tightened measures, adapted to the infection situation.
The current situation is very different in the individual federal states.
According to a report by
oe24.at
, Austria should therefore be divided into three parts based on the number of infections.
In the western state of Vorarlberg, the corona situation * is comparatively relaxed.
The 7-day incidence is currently 62. For a week now, catering has also been allowed to reopen in Vorarlberg as part of a pilot project.
Here the openings will probably continue to be retained.
Corona in Austria: Kurz government is probably planning a tripartite lockdown
Tyrol (7-day incidence: 212), Upper Austria (205), Carinthia (185) and Styria (184) are
regarded as a "hope group" according
to the
oe24
report.
The four federal states are all close to an incidence value of 200. If the numbers do not explode there, there should still be hope that the pub gardens will open from March 27th.
On the other hand, the situation is critical in Salzburg (306) and the three eastern federal states of Vienna (314), Lower Austria (258) and Burgenland (259).
The 7-day incidence there is well over 200. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) only pointed out the worsening situation, especially in the intensive care units in the eastern federal states, on Sunday.
The more contagious British virus variant B.1.1.7 * is responsible for 95 percent of all new infections there.
Corona in Austria: Anschober wants to pull the "emergency brake" in heavily affected regions
“The situation in many intensive care units will be dramatic if effective countermeasures are not taken quickly.
We have to have the courage to pull the emergency brake in individual, particularly badly affected regions, ”explained Anschober.
Salzburg, Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland must therefore expect new restrictions.
This did not go down well with Vienna’s City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ).
“With appropriate prevention concepts, nothing speaks against opening the pub gardens from the beginning of April,” he assured the
courier
.
“Does anyone really think that you can let people sit in their four walls for a long time?
I am curious to see what the Chancellor's opinion looks like, ”Hacker continued.
Chancellor Kurz * has so far repeatedly defended the opening of all shops six weeks ago, accompanied by a comprehensive test concept.
The corona infection numbers * would increase linearly, but not exponentially.
This step also gave the economy important impetus.
"The tests enable us to control the infection process as best we can," emphasized Kurz.
In schools, a third test run is now carried out within a week.
This increases the number of corona tests in Austria to almost four million per week, as the government announced.
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