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Anchober saw a “successful step to contain the pandemic in Austria,” as he announced in a broadcast Monday. 4,200 people who would have otherwise unknowingly infected others were eliminated from the infection process. These first massive tests can now be developed and developed, for a second round after the holidays, for tests carried out by professional groups who are in close contact with others, and for tests in regions with a particularly high degree of infection.
On the other hand, there was criticism from the opposition: SPÖ federal manager Christian Deutsch saw the “low turnout in the massive tests as further proof of the miserable management of the turquoise green government crown. The low turnout should be a wake-up call: due to turquoise-green management by chaos, poor preparation and poor and contradictory communication, the population has obviously lost confidence in the government’s crisis management, “Deutsch said. NEOS called for testing “Instead of creating costly incentives for the population to test, the government has to create test offerings in high traffic locations,” said NEOS health spokesman Gerald Loacker.
The results varied greatly from region to region: 542,960 people attended the tests in Lower Austria, which meant a rate of 35.73 percent of those who were eligible to take the test. In Vienna, on the other hand, only 13.5 percent of those eligible to take the test actually participated. The positive test rate was around 0.2 percent in Austria, with large regional differences: in Carinthia it was around 0.53 percent.
The discussion about mandatory vaccination against coronavirus also caused a sensation over the weekend: Anschober said the government does not yet see the need to introduce such a vaccine. The Governor of Styria, Hermann Schützenhöfer, like his Upper Austrian counterpart Thomas Stelzer (both ÖVP), had previously advocated for mandatory vaccination. Governors Michael Ludwig (SPÖ – Vienna), Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP – Lower Austria), Peter Kaiser (SPÖ – Carinthia), Günther Platter (ÖVP – Tyrol) and Markus Wallner (ÖVP – Vorarlberg) spoke out against this. . The rejection also came from the opposition parties.
Meanwhile, the three-day incidence – that is, the number of newly infected people per 100,000 inhabitants per day in the past seven days – rose again in Austria on Monday. On Monday it was 217.5, yesterday it was 213.8. Anschober says the reason for this is the increased number of recorded PCR tests, which also verified the results of positive mass tests. There were also slight increases on Monday in the number of hospitalized patients and the number of intensive care patients.
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