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Viele Testungen und Warnmaßnahmen sind derzeit im Gespräch, um die behördliche Kontaktnachverfolgung zu entlasten.
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Innsbruck, Vienna – Starting next week, the Tyrolean district authorities will fully focus on fighting the corona pandemic in the afternoons. The concerns of citizens who have nothing to do with the corona virus should be limited to the morning. “The situation is getting worse due to the sharp increase in the number of infections,” state office director Herbert Forster said Saturday. District authorities should focus on quickly clarifying the chains of infection. Forster spoke of a “dire situation.”
In Vorarlberg, as already reported, contact tracking can no longer be fully maintained due to overload; In the near future, you will have to focus on high-risk groups.
“That is still not a problem”
In Tirol, according to the head of the operations team, Elmar Rizzoli, you are “at the limit, resources are scarce.” For this reason, the contact tracing of suspected cases initially specified by the federal government is no longer carried out. It only keeps track of confirmed “positives”. This creates room for more forces, because contact tracing in suspected cases took time to process around 300 cases per day. Contact tracing is still feasible in Vienna. Currently there is no reduction as in Vorarlberg. “That is still not a problem,” said Health Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ). The situation is “challenging, but still feasible.” More recently, the authorities had to monitor some 4,000 contact persons daily.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) has rejected the quick shortening of the quarantine of the contact person required by the ÖVP. “In times of massive increases in the number of infections, I am not prepared to take a greater risk to the population,” Anschober said Saturday. Tourism Minister Elisabeth Köstinger (ÖVP) had criticized the 10-day quarantine regulation as “impractical” in a TT interview and asked K1 contact persons to “take the free trial” after five days. .
Health officials in the federal states are skeptical, some pointing to the fact that testing capabilities are in short supply. However, the Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Industrialists welcome the “freedom” to avoid staff shortages. (APA, TT, lipi)
