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The strict restrictions started earlier and testing is still ongoing in Austria, wrote several of our readers in response to our article comparing epidemiological data from a neighboring country called a viral lab by the Hungarian Prime Minister with Hungarian indicators.
After the drastic Austrian bans, life resumed a few weeks ago. Since then, the population, especially students and teachers, has been examined three times a week, wrote one of our compatriots, who now has Austrian citizenship.
In the 10th calendar week, after starting school, the number of samples exceeded 1.1 million. Of this number, 1,247 asymptomatic positive cases were evaluated, including 840 students and 407 members of the school staff: teachers and members of the technical staff.
ORF, Austria’s public service television, is updating the test results.
Austria has a higher standard of medical care, recalls another reader.
Saturday morning social testing program.
There, to date, a total of almost 18.5 million tests have been carried out among the population, and these figures are also being updated.
Most of the tests are antigen tests available free of charge and in unlimited quantities, to which everyone is entitled, regardless of their social security status, based solely on their address. in your place of residence.
“The tests are a social program on Saturday morning,” writes a Hungarian who works in Vienna who has been examined four times so far and, according to his personal experience, has never waited more than 20 minutes to take the test. On one occasion he immediately queued up.
The test result will be sent by SMS within a maximum period of one hour. However, the result is also available online after proper registration.
The test is a prerequisite for using cosmetic services (hairdresser, manicure), but travelers from Hungary can cross the border back to Austria with a test of up to one week.
The coronavirus test can be performed by anyone alone at home, through a very specific procedure.
“The supply can be picked up at BIPA pharmacies, the sample has to be returned there, and within one day, an official and complete PCR lab certificate can be downloaded and accepted everywhere, even to cross the border. A prerequisite for a full lab result via webcam is proof of identity (ID card or passport) and then extraction and gargling of the test fluid in front of the webcam, ”writes our reader, who added: credit management. “
The so-called “contact sports”, including amateur football matches, have been banned in Austria since mid-October, wrote another reader in response to our article. Even children who have undergone mandatory weekly school tests cannot play soccer.
Find this logical because contact is inevitable in soccer. According to him, restaurants can open instead of allowing amateur football because the risk of direct contact in the hospitality industry is much lower.
(Cover image: A man is being tested for a coronavirus in Austria. Photo: Johann Groder / AFP)
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