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Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) locates faults in some federal states due to long waiting times for corona tests. Although many authorities had increased staff, he said in Ö1 “Journal zu Gast” on Saturday. In Vienna, however, “you have to have huge amounts of money” for this. The number of intensive care patients could be in the triple digit range at the end of the month.
“For weeks the number of hospitalizations was decoupled from the growing number of infections due to the significantly lower average age of those who tested positive,” Anschober said in a broadcast, “this now seems to be changing step by step.” According to the minister, the forecasts for intensive care patients are “clearly upward” and assume around 110 intensive care patients by the end of the month.
However, Anschober has identified “comprehensive change” in recent days. The population now gets involved again and again and takes responsibility again. Saturday’s outbreak also shows that the proper measures have been taken with precision. Anschober: “I am very sure that the sense of responsibility of the population will soon return to what it was in the spring and that we will be able to keep the pandemic under control.”
“Fatal error” when tests and results take days after calling
Anchober denied that the government had reacted too late to the increase in numbers. However, it is a “serious mistake” if, for example, after a call to the Corona hotline, the evaluators only arrive for days and the results are pending for a long time. A medical hotline can only be as good if it has enough staff, the minister noted, and after speaking with the city government, he was confident that Vienna would do its best.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) intervened again regarding the rapid rise in infections in Vienna. In a statement to the APA, he renewed his “offer” to the federal capital to support containment with the police: “The police are ready to help locate contacts and monitor compliance with the quarantine.” The Vienna city government had always interpreted such offers as a provocation in the current election campaign.
