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If more than 850 intensive care beds are occupied with Covid 19 patients, there may be tension. For Rendi-Wagner, independent experts must take the helm.
1:38 pm, November 7, 2020
On Saturday there will be another in Austria Record number of new SARS-CoV-2 infections dice. 8241 cases were registered in the last 24 hours. The number of actively infected people increased to 57,570, more than the inhabitants of St. Pölten. Meanwhile, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, more than 3,000 Covid-19 patients were treated at the hospital. Of these, 432 people required intensive care. The number of deaths increased from 37 to 1,377.
Possible tightening
Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober (Greens) is open today S1 A possible further tightening of measures to contain the coronavirus was indicated. So these are in the room, they must pass 850 intensive care beds with Covid-19 patients being busy. The current rate is around 420, but the daily increase in this area has been huge in the recent past.
Hospitals are well prepared, but so is our strength Healthcare system it could “reach its limits,” Anschober said. The Health Minister continues to trust the current “light blockade” measures. Should by the end of next week there is no noticeable improvement, but stricter measures must be implemented. Anchober also attracts the population. Every citizen has a challengedo our part to contain the pandemic. At the same time, it was said beforehand that to stricter measures before should the situation in the country deteriorate dramatically.
One available vaccine In Austria, Anschober expects to end the first quarter of 2021. However, this would not automatically solve all problems with the coronavirus, and it would not initially be available to everyone.
Schools must remain open
Anschober reaffirmed that it is current no plans to close schools and kindergartens in the next week there. When asked why the government didn’t prepare for the impending second wave in the summer and, for example, trained many more contact trackers, Anschober says it instructed the federal states to do so. Hospitals have also been adequately prepared. However, one problem is that more highly qualified personnel cannot be trained as quickly.
Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Director of the SPÖ Meanwhile, he demanded that the federal government “finally put an end to its blind flight in managing the crown crisis.” It is currently being decided whether or not the infection process can be contained. The government will only act if there is a “fire on the roof,” the former health minister said in a press release. Now is the time to let independent experts take the wheel. They would have to judge “whether the federal government’s measures are sufficient or not.”
If only a quarter of corona cases can be traced, “this illustrates the government’s blind flight,” said the SPÖ president. The follow-up of an independent expert commission is “absolutely necessary to make adjustments and facilities based on the evidence and to be able to learn for the time after the closing”.
