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After the corona cluster at the St. Vinzenz nursing home in Pinkafeld in southern Burgenland with 54 infected people (reported KURIER), LH Hans Peter Doskozil and Social Counselor Leonhard Schneemann (both SPÖ) took further action in Eisenstadt on Wednesday morning in the fight against the Covid 19 pandemic announced: Starting Thursday, stricter rules will apply in the 43 homes and nursing homes for the elderly and the five hospitals in Burgenland. Visitors can only visit relatives once a week for one hour if they take a quick test at the entrance, the result of which should be available in 20 minutes. The cost of five euros will be borne by the visitors, exceptions apply to relatives of palliative patients and children. Visits are only possible without a quick test if there are gathering areas in the houses where residents and visitors are separated from each other by a wall of glass.
Contact tracing has now also clarified how the group emerged in Pinkafeld: In St. Vinzenz’s house there is also an area for assisted living, a member of a resident brought the virus, according to social counselor Schneemann. He also noted that so far only 71 Covid cases have been confirmed in 5,200 tests in nursing homes and nursing homes, and now all of a sudden 54 in the St. Vinzenz house in Pinkafeld alone (38 nurses and 16 nurses). The wife of the head of the FPÖ, Norbert Hofer, also works at home and is affected, so the leader of the blue federal party also had to be in home quarantine.
No police in private rooms
Doskozil also appealed to the public on Wednesday to refrain from private parties for now. “No birthdays and no wedding can now be so important as to run the risk of being infected or, in the worst case, even dying,” said the president, who describes the situation as “fundamentally worrying.” Therefore, neither could “guarantee what measures should be announced next week or the following week.” In Burgenland there are 52 intensive care beds in hospitals, five are currently occupied with Covid patients, but only 16 intensive care beds are free, Doskozil highlighted the current situation. Deferral of non-acute operations is currently not a problem. If things continue like this, the question could arise in a week or two.
However, Doskozil did not want to follow his Styrian colleague Hermann Schützenhöfer (ÖVP), who had suggested a “constitutionally viable path” in the KURIER to be able to intervene in the private sector in case of violations of Crown rules. “We don’t need the police in the living room, that would go too far and be disproportionate,” said Doskozil, a trained police officer and lawyer.
