The number of corona infections decreased in Vienna «kleinezeitung.at

In a weekly comparison minus 14.6 percent – criticism of the 1450 hotline does not end – the Health Council office refers to staff increases and peaks only “partially foreseeable.”

1:28 pm, September 27, 2020

The number of new coronavirus infections is currently at Vienna back. This week are 1,998 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the city’s medical crisis team announced Sunday in a broadcast (starting at 8:00 am). That is 14.6 percent less than the previous week. Meanwhile, criticism continues about long wait times on the 1450 hotline.

A total of 15,142 people in Vienna have tested positive for the corona virus to date, according to the dispatch from the crisis team. 279 new cases have been added in the last 24 hours. 10,437 people are now healthy again. On the other hand, 244 people did not survive the disease and died.

The average rate of positive test results has fallen from 6.02% last week to 5.71% this weekhe said in the broadcast. Yesterday, Saturday, 2,471 crown tests were carried out. In total, the number of tests performed has risen to 437,463 since the start of the pandemic.

In the Direct line 1450, where people who suspect they have been infected with the virus must report, 3,340 calls were received yesterday. However, the accusations around the hotline do not stop, especially the extremely long wait times.

662 new infections in Austria

With 662 new infections reported by the Home Office on Sunday, the number of positive test results has risen to 42,876. 787 people died as a result of the coronavirus and 33,589 have recovered. The number of active patients increased slightly from 8,273 to 8,500.

There are currently 446 people in hospital treatment, 84 of them in intensive care units. On Saturday there were 423 people or 80.

Across Austria, 9,865 tests have been entered into the Epidemiological Register Register (EMS) since Saturday morning (17,443 the day before). As usual, the figures were very different in different federal states. In Vienna there were 2,471, in Lower Austria 1,691, in Upper Austria 1,114 and in Carinthia 228. In Styria 1,252 events were reported in the last 24 hours, in Tyrol 1,252 and in Vorarlberg 1,872. In Burgenland, 476 tests were added compared to Saturday, in Salzburg there were only 101. A total of 1,555,499 PCR tests have been carried out across Austria since the start of the pandemic.

Criticism of the 1450 hotline

In the “Kronen Zeitung” (Sunday edition), a telephone operator spoke and recounted his daily life in 1450. He recently had a patient who has been demanding to be examined for almost 14 days. As for the queues on the phone line, “it’s okay” if you only stay an hour. IT collapsed last weekend, which also had to do with calls for flu vaccination, which are also processed via 1450. Later, some employees were specially assigned to divert callers from the line, according to the article .

Hacker asked for resignation

the Wiener ÖVP locates a system failure in the health hotline. Once again, the disempowerment of the Councilor for Health was done in a broadcast Peter hacker (SPÖ) required. “It is a long time since SPÖ city councilor Hacker has been released from the management of the crown,” the non-executive city council said. Markus Wölbitsch and health spokesperson Ingrid Korosec. Hacker didn’t take the situation seriously from the start. Meanwhile, the 1450 is on the brink of collapse, hours of waiting on Corona’s test streets are the rule and the queue in front of private labs grows longer, the turquoise annoying.

In the office of the City of Health, they do not want to leave the accusations in the room. There the APA was assured that daily call numbers in 1450 would have normalized again after temporary peaks, “only partially foreseeable”, for example with the first media reports of a subsequent orange or red traffic light in Vienna.

The mayor’s announcement was also made Michael ludwig (SPÖ) referred, according to which personnel are constantly hired in the health sector, including 1,450. There are currently 425 employees working there. Current data on waiting times was also sent to the APA.

On Saturday it took an average of 30 seconds to answer the call at the first level, where the data of the caller is recorded. It took another 20 seconds to go to the clarification meeting with the medical staff. As for the long time until the test is accepted, reference was made to the second Corona test lane opened on Thursday on the Danube island, where people with symptoms can also be tested. This can shorten the waiting time as you can go yourself and not have to wait any longer. Mobile Home Sampling Kit come home.

And on another front when it comes to fighting the spread of the coronavirus, there will be a new regulation in Vienna starting tomorrow, Monday: gastronomy companies must record their guests’ data for efficient contact tracing. The Figlmüller Group, which manages six companies in the federal capital, has found a digital solution for this. Together with Diamir Holding was Development of the online tool “Guest-CheckIn”as announced in a broadcast.

Guests scan a QR code with their smartphone and enter their details in the online form. If they are already stored once, you just have to confirm them. The time and date are recorded automatically. The data will be stored on European servers in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and will be automatically deleted after 28 days, it was promised. “Guest registration” is now available to all Viennese restaurateurs, he said. The monthly license fee is 29 euros.