In the morning, the Chancellor gave an interview from home for the Ö1 “Mittagsjournal” of the ORF after his ZiB2 interview, which was scheduled for Friday evening, had been canceled.
According to the Federal Chancellery, Nehammer is likely to have contracted a security officer after returning from his vacation in Carinthia. Rumors circulating on the Internet about an infection while on vacation, fueled by a photo of the Chancellor in a group of men at a ski lodge table, his spokesman rejected. The photo was taken on December 29th in compliance with the 2G rule, and a week later the Chancellor was tested negative for PCR, he tweeted.
Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens), who had attended a press conference with Nehammer on Thursday, was also in good health on Saturday. Mückstein has been voluntarily self-isolating since Friday. He is doing well and is waiting for his PCR test result, according to his spokeswoman.
Criticism of the handling of the infection came from the FPÖ. Club chairman Dagmar Belakowitsch saw questions raised about compliance with the quarantine rules applicable on Friday. “In the very likely case that Nehammer was infected with the Omikron variant, that all persons who were in the same room with the Chancellor for more than 15 minutes in the days before his positive test and less than 2 meters away had to be in quarantine, “she said in a broadcast.
Source: Nachrichten
