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The lock is now absolutely necessary. Due to the higher level of infection (the city recorded 737 acutely infected people on Wednesday afternoon), the second wave is worse and therefore more difficult to deal with than the first. Quick relaxation should not be expected.
What happens in a corona case
As a first step, the federal list foresees that infected people are contacted and isolated as quickly as possible. This is followed by the people who live together in the home. Category 1 contacts are contacted “as far as possible”, that is, recently there have been cases in which those affected have not received a notice of separation or the letter has only arrived after their isolation ends.
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The number of new infections in Austria has risen to more than 6,000 positive tests in 24 hours for the first time. 437 corona positive tests were added in Salzburg.
“We are definitely trying to reach all the contact persons in the first category by phone, send them to automatic quarantine and organize a test,” a spokesman for the city told the APA. “Due to the high numbers, we have not been able to issue any advisories in recent days.” However, there is also no legal right to a decision.
Contact tracing is reaching its limits
If, as in the last case, between 100 and 150 recently infected people were added in one day, and if ten to 20 contact persons were assumed at the same time, one could calculate how many notifications would result. “Therefore, there is priority where those affected work in sensitive areas. In hospitals, nursing homes or teachers in schools, ”the spokesman said. Where applicable, contact persons of the second category are also processed.
So far, the city’s epidemic authority has made more than 64,000 phone calls to trace contacts. They have issued 6,500 notices and carried out more than 4,000 controls. In addition, there are currently around 50 to 70 layoffs per day, which must also be processed by notification. The previous week, half of the contact tracing team in the city of Salzburg (20 employees) had been quarantined because an employee in the contact person’s administration had tested positive.
Salzburg team increases
Now the team will increase. In the provisionally planned final expansion, 55 employees of the magistrate’s offices and departments will begin tracking infected people. This is complemented by 27 outside full-time employees and twelve soldiers from the Federal Army. If the current partial block leads to a drop in the number of cases, you are very well positioned.
(Those: APA)
