Virologist warns: Vienna is losing control of the coronavirus – Coronavirus Vienna

Virologist Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl from MedUni Vienna warns in an email to several people from the Ministry of Health working group that control over the infection process could be lost.

Detailed analyzes in Vienna had shown that “infections are already being acquired in an unclear way in the public space (…)”, he quoted the “Kleine Zeitung” (Sunday edition) of the Puchhammer-Stöckl mail.

Specifically, the virologist, who confirmed the authenticity of the journal post, wrote: “Our analyzes of individual cases of SARS infection in Vienna, which we examined down to the last detail (accurate detection by PCR of all possible contacts) show that infections are no longer clear. Wisdoms are acquired in public space (public transport, businesses as some possible sources). It seems that control over the contagion process is being lost “.

Research has shown that “more and more people do not know where they might have been infected,” the doctor explained to “Kleine Zeitung.” “Then we checked and saw all the contact persons in various cases: it was not family members or co-workers who were infected.” That leaves only the public space, the report said. “You got into a fuzzy situation. I think it’s the same in some federal states,” said Puchhammer-Stöckl.

At the office of the city councilor for health, Peter Hacker (SPÖ), ORF Vienna was told that the investigation was unknown. According to a Hackers spokesperson, it is not entirely clear where a person is infected in only four percent of infected people.