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The FPÖ deputy Belakowitsch had asked in the morning not to participate in the massive tests announced by the government. “If you want to celebrate Christmas in peace, don’t let yourself be tested,” Belakovich told a news conference. She justified it with the risk of being quarantined after a false positive result. He received harsh criticism from the ÖVP and the Greens.
Citizens decision
Hofer came out in the evening to resume the debate and emphasized that the FPÖ was not making any recommendations. “That is the decision of each citizen and it certainly depends on their personal living environment,” said the FPÖ president. However, it should be clear that there should be no direct or indirect coercion or repression for people who decide not to get tested or vaccinated, neither in tests nor in vaccines.
However, Hofer reiterated the FPÖ’s criticism of the massive tests planned for December. The head of FP sees this confirmed by the test strategy of the Ministry of Health. This was published on October 13 and calls for a “specific approach” to Covid testing. “Testing without a justified suspicion also increases the number of false positive results and overloads the existing testing capacity,” says the document written by the Ministry of Health. For this reason, Hofer calls for priority to be given to homes for the elderly and the elderly: “It is not the ski slopes that come first, but those lonely people who cannot see their loved ones in the last stage of their lives.”
