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According to the Governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, those who reject the tests should be quarantined.
6:00 p.m., December 30, 2020
The federal government is planning, in districts of Austria, whose Seven-day incidence exceeds 150, Mass testing required. Who reported on wednesday The Governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser (SPÖ) in a video conference with journalists. The government has these plans for one Video conference with the provincial governors ventilated. Anyone who refuses to take the test must be quarantined. However, the legal basis for this is currently lacking.
It was also about the topic “Free trial” after the end of the lockdown Discussed in mid-January, Kaiser said. There was the information that the test with which one should escape the blockade before, must not be older than 48 hours. Kaiser: “I’m on this skeptical because there is still no legal basis for this either and the question of who should control it must be clarified first. “
According to Kaiser, there is also planning a confirmation for the free trial. This confirmation must not only be issued at the test tracks, but also by the pharmacies and doctors who perform the tests. It is also being debated that in the companies where the tests are carried out, Confirmations can be issued. Be Refuse to try, according to the ideas of the Federal Chancellor still allowed to workAccording to Kaiser, Sebastian Kurz advocates a “soft duty”, Test rejects would have to use an FFP2 mask.
When all this will come true, it is still open. Mandatory mass testing for districts with too high an incidence could, in their view, at the earliest after the end of the confinement Be featured. Kaiser suspects that these plans would serve to Get people vaccinated.
“Kurz’s Assault Approach”
For the mayor of Innsbruck Georg willi In any case, (Greens) the second round of massive testing on Jan 15-17 should be the last, as he said in an APA conversation. Subsequently, it is important to concentrate on the work of convincing vaccination and subsequent “mass vaccination”. Meanwhile, Willi criticized Chancellor Kurz’s preparation and communication of the mass tests. Willi accused Kurz of some kind of attack approach. This led to the fact that very few people could be convinced and as a result the turnout was quite disappointing.
The latest massive tests must now be seen above all as an important exercise to enter the vaccination phase. The tests would make it easier to have a “proven and functional vaccination framework” available later. He hopes that large numbers of people can be vaccinated in a short period of time. This should “get you back to normal life pretty quickly.”
Criticisms of FPÖ and NEOS
Criticism of the federal government’s plans and approach came from the FPÖ and NEOS. “Despite guarantees to the contrary from the federal government, the mandatory crown test is now becoming a reality in Austria,” FPÖ chief Norbert Hofer said in a broadcast. “It is not far from mandatory testing to mandatory vaccination. The FPÖ will offer massive resistance here.” Hofer accused the government of “massive public insecurity”. “The constant breaking of words by Kurz, Kogler, Anschober and Nehammer means that a large part of the population, understandably, no longer supports the measures; the government’s Hü-Hott policy is responsible for this.”
The NEOS criticized that “it was not a good sign for better cooperation between the government and parliament in the coming year” that “The media received the draft of the opinion before the parliament once again in the most free“The ÖVP and the Greens continue to ignore parliament,” said NEOS club vice president Niki Scherak. Regarding the planned free trial, Scherak expressed “serious constitutional concerns.” The questions remain unanswered, how the ÖVP and the Greens conceive the controls, who should carry them out and how will this affect private life areas? “
