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“What was hijacked for many years is now falling on our heads,” said Michael Tripolt, chairman of the employees works council of the Graz University Hospital, in an interview with the APA. It was mainly referring to neglect in the area of care, where staff is scarce, especially during the worsening corona pandemic. On Thursday, the LKH Hörgas near Graz, which was closed in 2019, was reopened as a Covid station.
In particular, the nursing staff had already reached the limit of their capacity through 24-hour work, as noted by the Vienna staff representative, Edgar Martin. The danger of burning employees is serious. In a video on YouTube, doctors and nurses from the Tirol clinics called on the population to comply with the applicable hygiene and protection measures. Doctors and nurses describe the current situation in their wards and the stress caused by an increasing number of corona patients.
The number of intensive care patients increased by ten compared to the day, while those with Covid 19 in normal wards increased by 92. 44 more infected people died, so far there have been 1,608 deaths from corona in Austria.
Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) assumed that corona data issues that had occurred in recent days had been resolved. “The news this morning was that it was done and it should work 100 percent again,” he told a news conference. On Thursday there were late registrations. As of 9:30 am, there have been 181,642 positive results in Austria so far. Burgenland reported 194 new infections, Carinthia 399, Lower Austria 634, Upper Austria 2,554, Salzburg 798, Styria 1,116, Tirol 879, Vorarlberg 537 and Vienna 2,151 positive tests.
Due to the current number of cases and the “workload of the district administrative authorities”, the Ministry of Health sent a decree to the states on Thursday. Consequently, after a positive rapid antigen test of a person with symptoms of the disease, the previously mandatory retest with a more accurate PCR test can now be skipped if the official test capabilities are overloaded and warranted. the recording of the antigen test result in EMS. In addition, the decree recommends prioritizing official tests of certain groups of people and for contact tracing.
Meanwhile, the scientists demanded a “vastly improved data situation” on the corona infection process, also with regard to making decisions such as “Blocked or not?” “If, as is the case today, there are massive false reports and late reports from the authorities (sometimes for days), it becomes increasingly impossible to map the current infection process and that of the recent past, let alone forecast the number. of future cases, “wrote Peter Klimek. and Stefan Thurner from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) in a “Policy Brief”.
Movement data released by the US Internet company Google now suggests that the stricter measures that have been in place since November 3 have led to a decrease in mobility in Austria. However, the break-in, especially at workplaces, is significantly less dramatic than during the first “lockdown” in March: the drop is between 28 and 32 percent. In March, Google posted a steady decline of more than 50 percent in workplaces. Anschober had mentioned reducing “exercise intensity” as one of the objectives of the corona measures.
The Health Minister warned Thursday that there would be new crowds in shopping malls next weekend, but it has yet to be decided whether the government could order more school closings due to persistently high levels of new Covid infections. He referred to the planned impact assessment of the current measures: “I have always said that we will start evaluating after ten days. Today we have day ten.” The opposition and education experts continued to speak out against the closed schools.
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