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“A second blockade would be catastrophic,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said just a few weeks ago. Now it is here, the second lock. It is valid as of November 3.
The increases in infections had developed steeply upward, the Greens explained in the “Sonder-ZiB” on Saturday night. “I didn’t want to believe it,” he admitted. Additionally, a problem with capacity utilization in intensive care medicine is currently anticipated to be in mid-November.
The forecasts were wrong
There is also a suspicion that the virus has mutated and has therefore become stronger and more infectious. Anschober referred to equally steep growth curves in Germany and the Czech Republic. He himself reordered the original forecasts, which were too low, because the infection rate was much higher than expected.
Austria is “in a race against time” in the crown pandemic. The reversal of the trend should be achieved in mid-November; If not, there is a risk of overloading intensive care medicine and thus triage – that is, doctors’ decisions about who gets treatment and who doesn’t, Anschober said. It assumes, however, that “we will be on time”, then it could gradually reopen in early December.
Anchober defends ban on garage parties
Are you allowed to meet friends in the afternoon? At this time you can move freely, Anschober said, the legal situation. “Privacy remains intact during the day. That is something that was very important to me.”
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) sounded different on Twitter: he wrote that “during the closing period” only two households are allowed to meet. “
