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Vienna announced the departure of the crisis team in the Interior Ministry. Then there was strong criticism. Hours later, the departure was put into perspective.
Vienna There is confusion about the departure from Vienna of the Corona crisis team in the Interior Ministry. On Thursday morning, Health Councilor Peter Hacker announced his departure from Vienna and stated: The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Ages) had changed its report on the number of infections and now publishes the statistics at 2 pm The meeting of the crisis team at the Ministry of the Interior took place at 9 in the morning, for the hackers in the middle of the day, “where we have to make preparations so that the proper data is available at 2 in the afternoon ”. Postscript: “I don’t believe in wasting our human resources on meetings instead of investing in analytics.”
In any case, Hacker considers “smart” to change The Ages to the 2:00 pm post. At the same time, Hacker criticized: The Ministry of the Interior (on which the crisis team is based, note) has increasingly become the “Ministry of Propaganda”: “Now every day there are false reports and statistics false. It’s really tedious. ” On the other hand, cooperation with the Ministry of Health continues to be good, Hacker clarified: “They have the leadership in the pandemic, as it should be.” And the Ministry of Health would get all the information from Vienna.
At night, everything suddenly changed. Mayor Michael Ludwig announced on Twitter that “representatives of the city of Vienna will also participate in coordination meetings, videoconferences and crisis team meetings in the future.” Shortly after, a broadcast from Hacker’s office followed with the announcement that the City Council’s Health Councilor would be personally involved in the Home Office crisis team on Friday. Because there are misunderstandings that you want to clear up.
What misunderstandings? The meeting of state health officials with Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) showed that the change in the federal board resulted in differences in daily reports of positive findings in almost all federal states, according to Hacker. However, it could not be clarified whether these differences were due to multiple entries or whether they were caused by the fact that the assessments were carried out at different times of the day. At the same time, the Councilor for Health welcomed “that the Minister of Health, Anschober, calls a separate meeting of state health officials for Monday.” It remains to be seen whether Vienna will eventually begin to pull out of the pullout.
Criticisms from the coalition partner
Hacker’s announcement had already drawn criticism from various quarters, including criticism from the coalition partner, the Vienna Greens: “I am happy when the 2020 Vienna elections ended. Perhaps the SPÖ Vienna will finally start cooperating with the federal government on Covid-19 instead of constantly firing across the board, ”said Viennese Green Councilor Martin Margulies of the Viennese SPÖ.
The Interior Minister, Karl Nehammer, had formulated his criticism much more bluntly: “The fact that Vienna did not even participate in the meeting of the crisis team of the federal government and the federal states and wants to leave completely, although today’s figures they are alarming, it shows that there is little willingness to cooperate here.
This, in turn, had an indignant reaction from Vienna: “The crisis team of the Ministry of the Interior is just a reporting body. Here no decisions are made, “the Interior Ministry vehemently contradicted itself in an interview with the” press “that a way out would make the fight against the virus more difficult.
