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“I am absolutely confident that the traffic light will be of the utmost importance to us,” Anschober said, emphasizing his confidence in the Corona traffic light. He also recommended “use the Red Cross Crown app now.”
The department head spoke of 684 positive results in the last 24 hours of “too high a level”. These are “values that are too high for this moment, but they are no longer the increases we had until September 17 and 18”. This shows “that we are not currently heading in the direction of exponential growth,” said a satisfied Anschober. The minister expects the recently strengthened containment measures to be reflected in the early October figures.
Stable and decreasing trend
The seven-day incidence shows a “largely stable or even downward trend” in the districts, added Daniela Schmid, spokeswoman for the Crown Commission. She spoke of a “plateau” in new infections in recent days. Furthermore, the number of reproductions, as many other cases assume of a single case, is moving back towards 1.1. The average age of those who tested positive in the previous week was 35.
However, Anschober also issued a warning with reference to current climate change. “Now comes the phase where the risk increases, where we are more closed,” he said. For the current situation, I highly recommend using the Red Cross Crown app. “Already more than 1200 warnings have been implemented through the smartphone application to be able to go wide.
Risk analysis works “excellent”
On the Corona traffic light, which is in the second stage of development, Anschober said: The risk analysis works “excellent.” There are also “many international inquiries” on the Austrian model. The second point, however, is the implementation measures, where the federal government was active at the beginning. Now it is possible to carry out regional extensions and extensions.
Anschober emphasized the importance of the corona laws passed in the National Council on Wednesday regarding the acquisition of protective equipment, as well as the voluntary implementation of tests by doctors and the renewed Covid-19 Measures Law. He assumed that Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen would sign “very quickly” after the extraordinary session of the Federal Council on Friday afternoon, and “that we will already have the three big legally valid measures by the weekend.” This also defines the step of implementation of the semaphore at the regional level.
Vorarlberg has already downsized events and Innsbruck has set up its own screening street. In addition, Anschober highlighted “many measures to protect at-risk groups in the yellow and orange zones,” such as screening tests in nursing homes and nursing homes. The tightening of measures announced on Friday by the state of Lower Austria was “exactly what we are hoping for,” that the states will take joint responsibility, Anschober said.
Additional measures are accepted
When asked about the mandatory guest lists in the restaurant sector in Vienna from Monday, which are now also planned in Lower Austria, the Health Minister said the city’s additional measures were “good and understandable. for me”. For a national introduction, there were initially data protection concerns about such a registration requirement. “If Vienna can figure that out, that’s fine. Vienna has all the support in the world,” Anschober said, praising a “good tool” for contact tracing like the Corona app.
Regarding criticism from the health sector in Vienna that employees were not being screened across the board, the department head said he had held talks with the federal states in the summer that “we need more staff.” Like other big cities, Vienna is “in a specific situation”. It is good that the workforce is increased, although it would have liked before, “but better now than ever”.
Schmid emphasized that not a single patient in Austria was infected with SARS-CoV-2 due to their hospital stay. Currently, “there is no evidence of increased transmission activity within the school population” among elementary school students. Most of the conglomerates were in the previous week with 323 (66.7 percent) in the household sector. In terms of free time, with many larger private events and very few public events, according to Schmid, there were 37 groups. The ten sports groups referred to “après sports activities” rather than the sport itself, explained the head of AGES’s Infection Epidemiology Department. Travel group configuration decreased from 33 to 22 in a weekly comparison.
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