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It is not yet clear how the mutation got to Tyrol, as Elmar Rizzoli, Tyrol vaccination coordinator explains. “At the moment we do not have any reliable information on how this mutation finally reached Tyrol.” Rizzoli points out that South Africa is not the only country of origin: “We have detected this mutation of the virus in 33 countries around the world.”
Dish against Tyrolean isolation
Tyrolean Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP) on Thursday rejected a possible isolation of Tyrol due to the spread of the South African variant of the coronavirus. “That doesn’t give the data,” Platter said. You have to “of course always be on guard,” he said. However, it must be ensured that “proportionality occurs”. A finding shared by the Vienna City Councilor for Health, Peter Hacker.
Since the British virus mutation appeared in Jochberg, according to Platter, all positive PCR tests in the country have been scrutinized for abnormalities in order to get a more accurate picture of the situation. “No other federal state has taken such drastic action,” Platter told KURIER.
The South African variant has been identified 75 times so far: only five affected people were still considered active positive. In the past three days, the experts had consulted and it was decided to intensify contact monitoring and testing, Platter said. What anomalies exist is evaluated daily. By the way, the British mutation has so far been found in 21 people in Tyrol, one of whom is still actively positive.
