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Two caregivers and nine children and youth tested positive.
Großarl. A new Covid cluster has been formed in Salzburg. As announced by the health authority on Saturday, a holiday camp of the Catholic youth group was affected the previous week at Grossarl in Pongau, Salzburg. There are currently eleven infections assigned to the group, two camp caregivers and nine children and adolescents around the age of 14 have tested positive, according to the Archdiocese of Salzburg.
Contact tracing and containment surveys conducted by the city’s health authority were in full swing until shortly before midnight on Saturday. Two infected adults and five children and adolescents live in the city of Salzburg. Another 16 people in the area have already been separated by decision to contain the infection process as quickly as possible, the city said. Four other infected children and teenagers who were at the Großarl camp live in Salzburg’s Tennengau, said a spokesman for the APA archdiocese. The other administrative authorities of the district also collect contact persons. According to the city of Salzburg, the index person in the group comes from neighboring Bavaria.
Stayed in a self-catering accommodation
“There were strict protection requirements at the youth camp,” said archdiocese spokesman Kurt Sonneck in an interview with the APA. “It was ventilated regularly, it was disinfected, masks were worn and hands were washed.” After the first infection at the camp this week, the vacation week ended immediately. All children and adolescents and their companions were immediately tested for Covid. Participants in the vacation camp were staying in separate accommodations and had no contact with anyone else, Sonneck said. In the camp there were a total of 22 children and youth and nine caregivers.
Cluster formation and clustering is one of the four criteria of the Corona traffic light. “We expect a significant increase in positive test results in the coming days, especially in the family environment,” said Michael Haybäck from the Salzburg district administration. In the city of Salzburg, as of 8:00 am on Sunday, a total of 49 people tested positive, 152 people are categorized as Category 1 contacts, and 48 people are officially restricted as Category 2 contacts.
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