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The first traffic light change last Friday sparked some political upheaval, especially in Linz from local mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ). The capital of Upper Austria was one of the four affected regions along with Vienna, Graz and the Tyrolean district of Kufstein. “That the political representatives of the affected regions are not enthusiastic about their region being listed as ‘yellow’ at the traffic light in Corona” is understandable, however, Anschober commented on the excitement.
Legal options for implementing Corona’s stoplight measures were particularly controversial. The government is of the legal opinion that the requirement for extended masks on commercial and restaurant employees in districts marked “yellow” can also be enforced by ordinance. For all other measures, the Covid Law must be amended first. The decision is scheduled for the National Council meeting on September 23.
However, the next obstacle to overcome is the Federal Council of October 8, in which the process could also be accelerated through extraordinary meetings. The Health Ministry said on Friday that, ideally, traffic lights should be fully operational by law as of October 1. However, if the SPÖ and FPÖ were to vote against the law, as predicted by the daily “Österreich” on Saturday, one option would be to decide in the Federal Council not to deal with it in plenary in the first place. This could result in a delay of up to eight weeks and the legal basis for the traffic light measures could not be created until the end of November.
According to the Ministry of the Interior and Health, the number of new corona virus infections recorded in Austria was 290 in the last 24 hours on Monday. In contrast, 257 people were reported to have recovered. As of Monday morning, 746 people in Austria had died as a result of the coronavirus.
The increase of ten deaths compared to Sunday can be attributed to a data cleaning of Viennese cases since the end of March and was carried out on the basis of a recommendation from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES): those deaths should also be included in the Covid-19 statistics. who tested positive for infection within a certain period of time before death.
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