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A decision should be made this Sunday night on whether there will really be tougher measures in Tyrol. Meanwhile, the news magazine “profil” again dealt with the management of the crisis in the Tyrolean Crown of spring 2020.
10:34 am, February 7, 2021
A decision was expected on Sunday night on whether even stricter measures are needed in Tyrol because of the “South African mutant.” The Innsbruck Virologist Dorothee von Laer he had even advocated isolation and prolonged confinement. This was the subject of harsh criticism in Tyrol. Governor Günther Fountain (ÖVP) rejected isolation, relying instead on measures agreed with the federal government.
President of the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce Christoph Walser (ÖVP) has harshly criticized the health ministers in the course of the debate on the possible isolation of Tyrol or an extension of the blockade due to the South African mutant Rudolf anschober (Green) practiced. “People in Austria are fed up with receiving the same mantras every day. Anything other than the implementation of the initial steps from Monday onwards must be rejected,” Walser explained in a broadcast.
It is “good and correct” to investigate every confirmed infection and also to watch for mutations. “But if this was already six or eight weeks ago, scare tactics are irresponsible. Instead of discussing events that occurred a long time ago, high-level politics should address vaccine procurement and compensate for neglect in this regard during the last few months, “he added. Walser Anschober and those responsible in the federal government said, adding: “We have to get vaccinated to get out of the pandemic and not sequence ourselves towards the next confinement.”
Tirol “is not an experimental field”
The virologist too Dorothee von Laer took Walser in his sights: This caused “a lot of uncertainty.” “We are proud of our science and to make sure it stays that way, experts should not practice creating uncertainty and playing in the foreground,” said the WK President. Tyrol “is not an experimental field”. The people, schoolchildren and society as a whole “must not be taken hostage.” “We need a holistic view – in addition to virologists, we must also listen to psychologists, educators, sociologists and economists,” Walser appealed. What happens to our complex society should not “be left to the theorists.”
As of Saturday night, 165 cases of the South African coronavirus mutation have been confirmed in Tyrol. Most of the mutations were found in hindsight, the country said. Of these 165 cases, only eight people were still actively positive. In many other cases, there is a suspicion of a mutation, which will be further clarified according to the standards specified by AGES, he said.
Decision tonight
The decision on whether there will actually be stricter measures in Tyrol must be made on Sunday night. The federal government is in constant contact with Tyrol and wants to analyze the data situation for tomorrow Sunday. In any case, Anschober did not rule out a confinement instruction in a federal state towards ATV: “The control center in this republic, in terms of limiting the pandemic, is the Ministry of Health,” he emphasized. Naturally, the Tyrolean state government is fighting isolation and in recent days has relied on extensive antigen testing or “mass testing” in particularly affected areas and in-depth contact tracing.
ZIB 1 – Matthias Schrom (ORF) on the possible isolation of Tyrol
Ischgl failures of the authorities in sight again
Meanwhile, the news magazine “profil” again dealt with the management of the crisis in the Tyrolean Crown of spring 2020. Once again in focus: a press release from the country on March 5, according to which 14 Ischgl people who tested positive at home were likely on the plane after their Ischgl vacation infected. The committee of independent experts chaired by the former vice president of OGH Ronald rohrer They judged this to be “incorrect” and “incorrect” in their final report last fall. It turned out that they had flown with two different machines and that one guest had already shown symptoms before departure.
According to “profil” now, the LH Günther Platter (ÖVP) office manager sent an email to the public relations department a quarter of an hour before the press release was published, referring to Iceland’s warning and asking the guest with symptoms: “Would that rule out the possibility of you catching it on the plane when the first symptoms occurred on February 26?” In response to a request from the APA, the state of Tirol emphasized again that “the information from the media was technically approved and therefore sent by the health authorities according to their professional assessment and in accordance with the information available at that time. “. In addition, the same media information indicated that more official investigations are being carried out.
Interventions
“Profil” also located one Intervention trays – due to an email draft from the investigation files of the Innsbruck prosecutor’s office dated March 6, 2020. In the draft, which was intended for Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Home Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP), the governor himself should against the classification of South Tyrol as a risk zone they have expressed and – based on the assessment of the state’s operations management – have called for an urgent evaluation and revocation. South Tyrol is said to have been removed from the list of risk countries on the same day. Based on the state of Tyrol, it is clear that the draft was not sent. As the APA learned from farmhouse circles, in their opinion there would have been nothing unfair to send them, because they only wanted to address Corona’s not yet precarious situation in South Tyrol with only one confirmed case and one probable case. . The Health Ministry stated that it had initially accepted the classification of South Tyrol by the Robert Koch Institute without reservation, but had withdrawn it in the course of an evaluation because “there were no known cases related to travel related to South Tyrol”.
