You just have to “simply acknowledge that we cannot live with this level of pandemic-related crisis mood for years,” said Rauch of the “Tiroler Tageszeitung”.
If it “depends and the situation worsens again”, he will be the first to sharpen the corona measures, the Minister of Health confirmed at the same time. He also did not want to be accused of not paying enough attention to the groups at risk: “After all, we still have to wear masks in old people’s and nursing homes, in hospitals or doctor’s offices”.
In the fall, with the gas crisis, inflation and the war in Ukraine, you get “without a very strained situation in society,” said Rauch: “I’m Minister for Social Affairs and Health, so I’m now concerned with social issues and the question of social upheavals at least as intense as the Corona crisis”.
The minister was annoyed that a draft of the end of the quarantine had been circulating in the media for days. It is apparently “in the nature of Austrian politics that topics are constantly being leaked,” Rauch criticized: “We try very hard to involve all stakeholders in advance on a confidential level. Then things like this happen that torpedo it again. That’s painful and makes you think about whether you should still do such confidential rounds at all”. The head of department emphasized that he still wanted to have everyone on board for “the important preliminary vote”.
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