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“Now is not the time for barn and garage parties,” says Governor Thomas Stelzer (Vice President) of the world. We know that most infections currently occur in the private sector. Therefore, you want to counter an escalation this weekend. Legal measures are reportedly to be presented today to prevent “uncontrolled parties” over the weekend.
The background to this is the recent sharp rise in crown numbers. The situation in hospitals is also reaching a critical point. On Tuesday it was announced that it was beginning to postpone interventions that were not immediately necessary. In view of the very labor-intensive treatment of Covid 19 patients, there is fear in hospitals that capacity limits will be reached if the infection curve continues to develop as it did before. Then the places reserved for crown patients in Upper Austria would be sold out in early November, which would mean a total disruption of elective services. In addition, there are hundreds of new infections in the state every day, and these numbers are only reflected in hospital and intensive care bed occupancies with a time lag.
Everyone is aware that this is a legally sensitive area, they say. The message was that they did not want to go as far as the governor of Styria, Hermann Schützenhöfer (VP). In a courier interview yesterday, he demanded that there should be a “constitutionally viable way” to be able to take action in private homes of citizens in case of violations of crown rules. He considers these “restrictions on liberty” to be justifiable in the time of the Crown.
There were angry reactions from opposition parties in the federal government. These are “Austro-fascist surveillance fantasies,” said FP club boss Herbert Kickl. There was also rejection from the ÖVP’s green coalition partner: the Corona law excludes controls in the private sector, said Health Minister Rudi Anschober.
