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Vienna shouldn’t turn red.
© APA / BARBARA GINDL
Corona’s stoplight commission met Thursday afternoon. In the early afternoon it was announced that nine districts would turn red. Vienna is not included.
In accordance with the APA’s expert recommendation to the Corona traffic light commission, which meets Thursday afternoon, nine districts are proposed to the commission to switch to red. Consequently, St. Pölten (Lower Austria), Wels-Stadt and Rohrbach (Upper Austria), Hallein, St. Johann im Pongau (Salzburg), Innsbruck, Innsbruck-Land, Imst and Schwaz (Tyrol) could be affected. Vienna is not included, which reportedly caused discontent among some commissioners.
16 more districts could be improved
According to the document, an upgrade to orange is proposed for another 16 districts: Oberwart (Burgenland), St. Veit an der Glan (Carinthia), Baden, St. Pölten Land, Tulln, Wiener Neustadt Land (Lower Austria), Steyr (city ), Grieskirchen, Ried im Innkreis, Schärding, Wels (Land) (all Upper Austria), Salzburg area. In Styria, the Liezen, Voitsberg and Bruck-Mürzzuschlag districts are suggested for orange, in Tyrol Kufstein.
Vienna shouldn’t turn red: disgust among some members
According to information from the APA, the fact that Vienna has not been proposed to the commission for the change to red causes annoyance among some commissioners. The reason for this is reportedly that Vienna is assessed as a full federal state in the so-called “risk adjustment” (which takes into account other criteria in addition to the pure seven-day incidence of new infections), and not the districts singles from Vienna. While the number of tests serves as the criterion for a better overall evaluation for an entire federal state, this is not the case for individual districts, so this criterion can only be applied to Vienna.
St. Pölten was waiting for the official red information
According to municipal authorities, the capital of the state of Lower Austria, St. Pölten, waited late Thursday afternoon for official information that the Corona traffic light commission could turn red. This is “a form of communication that we are already questioning,” city council spokesman Thomas Kainz told the APA. The city “of course has already taken action.”
Kainz also referred to the fact that St. Pölten had expanded the contact tracing team. From Monday to Sunday, nine people and a doctor are on call every day. The tracking rate is more than 80 percent.
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