It is up to Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) to change the regulation. Mückstein would have to implement this with the federal states and the social partners, Kocher referred to the responsibility of the Green ministerial colleague. Kocher does not see an automatism that comes with level 3 of the step-by-step plan (with 400 occupied intensive care beds) at the workplace 2.5G.
Mückstein announced on Friday that after the 14-day transition period, where an FFP2 mask may be worn at the workplace as an alternative to the 3G obligation, a 2.5 rule will come. The step-by-step plan of the turquoise-green federal government provides that more than 400 Covid patients in intensive care units will be tightened and antigen tests will then no longer be accepted. Unvaccinated and convalescent people whose Covid infection was more than six months ago must be able to present a laboratory-confirmed test wherever the 3G rule now applies – politicians call this 2.5G. The Minister of Labor said it was important that there was a nationwide opportunity to do a PCR test throughout Austria.
Source From: Nachrichten
