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Among the 456,000 students who have returned to class in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland for a week, there have been around 40 confirmed coronavirus infections, the Education Ministry announced on Monday. That was the state of the morning.
In the afternoon, Vienna Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) reported 70 new cases, and that alone in Vienna. 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 students were infected in the private sector, so far not a single school cluster has emerged, as stated by the secretary general of the Ministry of Education, Martin Netzer, in the ORF lunch newspaper. 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 if they are purely suspicious.
Vienna: 55 students, 6 teachers, 9 positive employees
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.
Entire classes must be 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 steps with a very short due date, students will be back at school in 14 days,” says Netzer.
