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Vorarlberg and Tyrol should already put the population to a massive test on the first weekend of December. Styria and Carinthia don’t have their turn until December 20. Kurz indicates that Austria will determine the opening date of the ski areas on its own.
12:56 pm, November 25, 2020
In today’s Council of Ministers, the federal government has established a crown strategy for the coming months. The novelty is that the first weekend of December, Tirol or Vorarlberg want their population to be analyzed, Salzburg will do the same the following weekend. Originally, all of Austria was to be tested on December 19 and 20. It is the turn of educators and police on December 5 and 6.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz He defended the project in the press lobby after the Council of Ministers. “Massive tests are not a panacea, but they are a good opportunity to locate infections in the population,” admits the chancellor. On the first weekend of December, all Austrian policemen and educators should take a test in any case.
Health Minister Rudlf anschober announced that 500,000 Austrians will be vaccinated at the beginning of the year. In addition to older people and vulnerable groups of people, this also includes healthcare workers. One million doses of vaccines are reserved for this.
Schools and commerce open first
The foreign minister also said that next week the government will announce the initial steps after the blockade expires. In any case, schools and shops open first. Minister of Education Heinz Fassmann I didn’t want to decide what the back to schools should be like in detail, whether there should be a mask requirement or shift work or not. There should be relief for the Matura.
Austria decides the ski season on its own
Kurz made it clear in the press lobby that Austria will decide for itself when the ski areas will open. In talks with the President of the Commission and the President of the Council, he agreed over the phone that this was not an issue in which the EU should interfere. The return to skiing is “part of the first steps”. However, the chancellor did not want to set a date. Here a division in Europe is becoming evident, France is closing its tracks, Italy is calling for a closure throughout Europe.
“Everyone counts!”
Meanwhile, the head of the vaccination department of the Ministry of Health waits Maria Paulke-Korinekthat many people in Austria will get vaccinated as soon as a product is on the market.
“Everyone counts,” says Paulke-Korinek in the morning paper Ö1. Corona vaccines can be assumed to be safe and effective once they have been approved. Currently, in the so-called “continuous review” process, that is, the accelerated approval process, many studies are running simultaneously with a large number of subjects ranging from 30,000 to 40,000 participants.
The government has repeatedly emphasized that no one should be forced to get vaccinated. Paulke-Korinek also emphasized in the morning newspaper that for them the most important means of increasing the vaccination rate is education. Those who understand the need would be more likely to get vaccinated. This also applies to employees of nursing homes or hospitals.
The first corona vaccines should take place in Austria in January 2021. First of all, residents of nursing homes and elderly and their carers would be vaccinated. As of April, the vaccine should be able to be used by the majority of the population.
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