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Since the school started, 70 positive cases have been known in Vienna schools. School-age children were also reported to test positive in Lower Austria. Most of the infections occurred in private.
Since classes started a week ago, 70 positive cases have been known in Viennese schools. This number was available Monday afternoon in the office of Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ). Among those affected are 55 schoolchildren, six teachers and nine members of the administrative staff.
How many locations are affected or how many people had to be quarantined as a result, there was no number. In terms of segregation, contact tracing is still partially working, he said. Most of them are isolated cases. This allows us to conclude that the infections did not occur in the schools themselves, but in the family area or among returning travelers, according to information from the hacker’s office.
32 schools in Lower Austria
In Lower Austria, more and more educational institutions are facing coronavirus infections. “In recent days, health authorities have taken corona-related action based on positive tests in 32 out of around 1,158 schools and six out of 1,058 daycare centers,” said Christiane Teschl-Hofmeister (ÖVP).
So far, 31 students, two kindergarteners, and ten educators in the state have tested positive for the corona virus. “With the current increase in the number of infections, it was to be expected that sooner or later action would have to be taken at individual kindergartens and at school locations,” said the regional counselor a week after the start of classes. . In order to be able to maintain normal operations for as long as possible, the politician also appealed to parents to comply with hygiene rules in school and kindergarten buildings, as well as in private life.
Currently, students in 20 classes in the state and federal school sector are learning about distance learning due to the official quarantine. “Lessons for all other Lower Austrian students continue normally,” emphasized Teschl-Hofmeister. One is “well positioned and prepared.” “If necessary, we can always offer substitute care for children who have not been segregated in kindergarten,” he reported.
Two cases in Burgenland
Two cases of coronavirus have been reported in educational institutions in Burgenland since classes began. A kindergarten teacher in the Neusiedl am See district and a schoolgirl from the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district tested positive, the Coronavirus Coordination Office announced on Monday at the request of the APA.
In both cases, however, no further infections occurred at the educational institution. The direct contact persons of those affected are quarantined at home.
Around 456,000 students have returned to class in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland for a week. Currently there are no known cases from the west and south, where school started again for 621,000 children and young people on Monday.
The previously infected schoolchildren had been privately infected, according to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Martin Netzer, in the ORF lunch diary. There is a “high level of nervousness in the system, but not all colds, every cough is a suspected case of Covid,” said Netzer, who emphasized that no one has to be sent home in the event of pure suspicion.
The whole class quarantined
If a student tests positive, the entire class is usually quarantined, as classmates are considered “contact person 1”. These are then tested at home, but must remain in quarantine for ten days even if the result is negative, Andreas Huber, spokesman for the Vienna city crisis team, said in the noon newspaper. Parents of children and adolescents who have tested negative can move and go to work normally; quarantine rules only apply to them when their child tests positive.
Schools must offer classes during the quarantine period. “We are taking individual action with a very short due date, students will be back at school within 14 days,” says Netzer.
(THAN)
