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Innsbruck – Tyrolean Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP) and LHStv. Ingrid Felipe (Greens) assumes a change of traffic light from green to yellow for the state capital, Innsbruck, in addition to the one that currently exists for the Kufstein district. They announced it on Wednesday at a press conference about the government meeting in Zams. The associated measures will be implemented on a voluntary basis despite the current lack of regulation.
This was also agreed with the Mayor of Innsbruck, Georg Willi (Greens) and Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens), the governor said. He appealed to the Tyrolean population: be careful, especially in private settings: “We can also wear masks voluntarily.” Hygiene measures must be observed.
Regarding voluntary compliance with the measures provided for the yellow traffic light, Platter said: “This includes, for example, the use of masks for customers in retail, for waiters in restaurants, in schools outside the classroom. For events without seats a Upper limit of 100 People in the interior area, with assigned seats this number is 2500 “.
Felipe: “Look at each other more again”
“We have to look more at each other,” added LHStv. Felipe added. The increasing number of infections is alarming. There is certainly cause for concern, Platter noted at the beginning of the press conference. And he added – in the face of winter tourism -: “We want to have a good autumn and winter so that the winter season works.”
69 new infections have been reported throughout Tyrol in the last 24 hours. In Innsbruck, 152 people were initially infected. On the contrary, the corona situation in hospitals remained very stable despite the increasing number of infected people: 13 corona patients were treated there in normal wards. Only one infected person required intensive medical care.
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Innsbruck city tour also expects yellow
In view of recent increases in corona cases in the city of Innsbruck, the city tour also expects the new corona traffic light to turn yellow on Friday. From September 2-8, there were 95 new infections in Innsbruck, Vice-BM Johannes Anzengruber (ÖVP), Covid-19 operations manager or Innsbruck coordinator, said at the city’s Senate press conference on Wednesday. There are currently 152 cases in Innsbruck. The figures for Wednesday today are not even included.
The committee that decides on the “traffic light regulation” will meet tomorrow Thursday. The probability that Innsbruck will reach the yellow light zone is “very, very high”, in which the Kufstein district has been since last Friday. Anzengruber also asks the population and companies to prepare now.
BM Georg Willi (Greens) explained that last week the commission had already discussed whether the traffic lights in Innsbruck should turn yellow. “I would prefer that we now go through a yellow phase so that people remember once again not to play with the virus, and then they can go back to the green phase more quickly.”
Schools are well prepared for traffic light regulation, added Education Councilor Elisabeth Mayr (SPÖ). The key is to provide parents with specific information to create planning security for families. Measurements for the four traffic light colors are clearly specified by the federal and state governments; the exact implementation in schools should be decided by the respective educational direction, depending on the spatial situation in the individual school. It’s about how to deal with pick-up and drop-off situations when parents also enter the school, or the question of how more outdoor school activities can be organized. (TT.com)
