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For corona hot spots with an incidence of more than 400, an exit test is mandatory.
The Health Ministry already sent state governors the decree for stricter corona measures in “high incidence areas”, as early as Friday night. Consequently, negative corona tests are necessary to move out of districts or “locally delimited hot spots” if the seven-day incidence there is greater than 400 per 100,000 inhabitants. The obligation to carry out the test must be maintained until the incidence has remained (for ten days) below 200.
In the case of a long-term high incidence in a district or region, with more than 400 for more than a week, the Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober (Greens), demands new measures “on the part of the governor” in the decree. New quarantine regulations, priority controls of corona compliance, increased contact tracing (more than 96 hours) and repeated testing of K1 and K2 contact persons, testing of sick persons between the 8th and 10th day, and extended testing obligations to enter “certain places or” commercial premises are mentioned.
Mandatory exit test
Provincial governors or district administrative authorities must implement the mandatory exit test by ordinance, no later than March 10. A negative SARS-CoV-2 test is required to leave the district (maximum of 48 hours for antigen test, maximum of 72 hours for PCR test). Alternatively, those who have recovered can have a doctor’s confirmation of the infection they have had, but this “depends on the nature of the infection process, in particular with regard to the emergence of virus variants.”
Passers do not need a test, but only “essential interruptions” (eg going to the bathroom) are allowed. Children up to ten years of age, security services, ambulance and fire departments, the transport of goods and exits by “urgent administrative or judicial means” or to avoid a danger are also exempt from the obligation to carry out the test.
On-the-spot checks
Anschober also orders that “the controls be carried out with the greatest possible intensity through random controls” – and clarifies that the help of the armed forces can also be requested for this purpose. The Minister also stated that “it must be ensured in parallel that sufficient testing facilities are available for those affected by the restriction.”
The second largest city in Lower Austria, Wiener Neustadt, the Carinthian district of Hermagor and the Pongau of Salzburg are affected by the regulation, as the incidence far exceeds 400. They have already been commissioned for the Hermagor district ( since Tuesday). In the communities of Radstadt and Bad Hofgastein in Pongau, which recently had an extreme increase in infections, a two-week exit restriction went into effect on Friday. Wiener Neustadt has been waiting for the decree of the ministry.
