Corona in Austria: the situation in schools is getting worse - more than 1000 classes in quarantine
Created: 03/15/2022, 14:34
By: Michelle Brey
In Austria more than 1000 classrooms are empty.
The background is the Corona situation.
© Armin Weigel/dpa
The corona virus situation in Austria continues to pick up speed.
The incidence is particularly high in the five to 14-year-old age group.
Vienna/Munich – The 7-day incidence in Austria continues to rise, and the number of new infections is also skyrocketing.
On Wednesday (March 9), a record high since the beginning of the pandemic was recorded.
Shortly before, on March 5th, almost all corona rules had been lifted.
The situation in Germany's neighboring country seems to be getting worse again.
A look at Austria's schools also causes concern.
Corona virus in Austria: overview of the current number of cases and parameters
New coronavirus infections: 38,060
(as of March 13)
7-day incidence: 3,293.1 (previous week: 2,402.0)
Vaccination rate: 72.7 percent of the population in Austria is fully vaccinated (this usually requires two vaccinations).
55.8 percent also received a booster vaccination, 75.3 percent were vaccinated at least once.
Patients in hospital: 2,797
(of which 187 are in intensive care)
Infected since the beginning of the pandemic: 3,153,927
Population in Austria: 9,043,072
(Source: Federal Ministry of Austria, as of March 12, 2022)
Austria: Corona virus situation creates a state of emergency in schools - "contamination"
The increase in new infections and incidences is again having an impact on schools in Austria.
According to oe24.at
, Thomas Bulanz, representative of elementary school teachers, said
: “The infection in schools is progressing steadily.
The quality of teaching is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.” It is also not always possible to compensate for absenteeism from teachers.
The corona burden has “reached a new peak in schools”.
A look at the 7-day incidences of the affected age groups also supports this view.
As early as March 5, the incidence in the five to 14-year-old age group was over 4,000.
As of March 12, it reached a reading of 5,077.9.
In the age group of 15-24 year olds, a proportion of whom still attend school, the value on March 12 was 5,198.8 (previous week: 3,108.8).
Corona in Austria: over 1,000 classes in quarantine
As reported by
oe24.at
, 1,025 classrooms were empty on Friday (March 12).
Accordingly, Vienna quarantined the most classes with 425, followed by Burgenland with 170 classes and Lower Austria with 120. Bulant said to the newspaper: "We no longer have capacity: some 6-year-olds are at the development level of 3-year-olds."
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The head boy of the GRG 6 Rahlgasse (high school in Vienna), Mati Randow, spoke to
oe24.at
in favor of general distance learning.
"If that isn't an infection, I don't know what it is," he said, referring to the current corona situation.
Randow had repeatedly sent open letters to the Austrian government during the corona pandemic.
However, an easing of the corona situation in Germany also seems to be over for the time being.
For several days, the incidence has also been increasing steadily in this country.
All information about the corona developments in Germany can be found in our live ticker.
(mbr)
