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Corona’s traffic light is Austrian yellow and orange. What that means is unclear at this time. Comments the Minister of Health, Rudi Anschober.
Vienna, Innsbruck-Stadt, as well as Kufstein, Dornbirn, Bludenz, Mödling and Neunkirchen light up orange at the Corona traffic light, in many other districts it is yellow. But this does not imply direct measures, because the measures recommended by the Crown Commission are not applied and there is a separate traffic light system for schools that is independent of the district traffic light. Consequently, there is confusion about the traffic light regulation.
Health Minister Rudi Anschober (Greens) tried to clarify “ZiB2” on Tuesday night at the ORF, but left additional questions unanswered. The traffic lights are not off, as was rumored in the media, so Anschober. The traffic light should show what “risk assessment and risk analysis” is like for the regions. However: Specific measures for yellow, orange or even red locations should not be prescribed, but rather imposed by the regions or applied at the national level.
Measures at the national level, not regional
The Crown Commission itself would advise, but the government would make decisions about the measures, and that at the national level and “rather not regionally,” the minister said. Also, the Corona semaphore should not be reset weekly in the future. It is important that the minimum distance, hygiene measures and protection of the mouth and nose are reused over a wide area of Austria. Anschober has probably also recognized that everything at the Corona stoplight is complicated and confusing: “Communication has to be simpler and more direct.”
Predict up to 1,400 daily cases
Two forecasts that the minister would have sounded alarming: one assumes that new infections could continue at 600 to 800 per day; the other assumes a massive increase from 1,300 to 1,400 new cases per day. That’s why people in Austria are relying heavily on oral and nasal protection again, according to Anschober. According to the minister, the amount of evidence relativizes the crown numbers somewhat, but: “Now it is a very serious situation.”
Compared to up to 1,400 new infections per day: On March 27, there were 992 new infections, the worst value in the history of the Austrian crown. However, there should be no restrictions at the moment, for example, on the number of guests to events. What happens then, especially in the orange districts? As of Wednesday “they will negotiate what measures are sensible” with those responsible.
