City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) said in “Vienna Today” that it was “definitely out of the question” to let infected employees work again.Vienna. Hacker is “quite certain” that the minister’s initiative “nobody in Austria will seriously implement it”. There are also questions of liability if patients become infected: “It starts with the question of the employer’s liability, continues with civil liability and extends to criminal liability.”
Rauch justified his proposal by saying that the staff in hospitals and care facilities are on the verge of being overwhelmed by many cases of illness and quarantine. The head of department left open exactly what the shortened quarantine for asymptomatically infected people should look like and to which work areas it should apply. The associated regulation should be drafted over the weekend and come into force on Wednesday.
It has long been planned that (actually from tomorrow Monday) contact persons who are not fully protected will no longer have to isolate themselves for ten days. After five days at the latest, only traffic restrictions should apply to them.
Source: Nachrichten
