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Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) warned if the current high number of new infections continues to rise.
According to the “OÖN”, a night curfew should also be considered. So the restriction could apply from 9pm to 5am, a variant from 11pm to 6am is also possible
In short: development has been predictable for a long time.
The government only mentioned the schedule on Thursday, questions about the details of the measures were not answered. “We are not in a phase of hours,” Kurz said. The development has been foreseeable for a long time.
According to him, there will be talks with the social partners on Friday, with the governors and the opposition and on Saturday the federal president. After these discussions, the public will be informed about the necessary measures, Kurz announced. It was also unclear on Thursday when the new measures should be applied. It is important to “keep a cool head and act decisively.”
For the All Saints weekend, Kurz referred to recommendations to reduce social contacts and avoid family gatherings. It is clear that the health system should not be overloaded: “We will not allow doctors to decide who is allowed to live and who should die.”
“Fatigue, not wanting more understandable”
Kurz again appealed to the population to support the measures: “The steps we can take as a Federal Government are one part, the other is the participation of the population.”
The challenge is “that there is a certain fatigue in many people, who no longer want to do it,” Kurz said. In this regard, he does not reproach anyone, “because I personally understand it very well”, they are restrictions that nobody wants.
On Thursday the question was discussed with experts about the value of the newly infected in which the national health system would be overloaded, and if this would be 6,000 positive cases per day, as estimated two weeks ago. “That was confirmed to us,” Kurz said after an expert panel on “bed capacity” at the Chancellery. There are currently around 4,500 new infected people. Much more relevant, however, is that these figures are doubling on average in a week, Kurz emphasized.
Anschober expects up to 5,800 new infections per day over the next week. If this trend continues, “the capacity limits could be exceeded in mid-November,” Anschober explains. That is why there is now “a great need for action to stop this development.” The problem is that the average age is currently increasing and infections are increasing in nursing homes and nursing homes.
Patients are “increasing rapidly”
Herwig Ostermann, Managing Director of Gesundheit Österreicher, explained that for every 100 new patients, an average of one person comes to an intensive care unit and has to be treated there for an average of 12.5 days. Patients are “increasing rapidly.”
Klaus Markstaller, president of the Austrian Society for Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine (ÖGARI), emphasized that an expansion of intensive care capabilities was not possible in the short term. If intensive care medicine reaches its limit when the number of new infections exceeds 6,000, “then we could no longer provide the best possible medicine,” Markstaller warned.
Initially, the government did not provide information on the content of the measures, not even on the start time. For the All Saints weekend, Kurz referred to recommendations to reduce social contacts and avoid family gatherings. Again he called on the population to support the measures. Anschober presented a reactivation of the outlook for sick leave by telephone.
The planned measures, which are also referred to as “blocking light” in the media, could be comparable to scenarios in other countries, such as those that will be applied in Germany from Monday. There, restaurants and leisure, cultural and sports facilities have to close for four weeks; Only members of two households can meet in public (a maximum of ten people). Schools, kindergartens and the entire retail sector remain open in Germany.
The opposition reacted with harsh criticism of the federal government’s communication policy on the imminent tightening of the crown measures. For the SPÖ it is “completely incomprehensible” that the government is waiting until the weekend to make the announcement, the FPÖ spoke of a “low point in government marketing”. NEOS detected a turquoise green “glitch”.
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