The number of corona cases in Upper Austria has risen dramatically, around 1,700 new infections were reported today alone. More than 400 corona patients are in the hospitals, 58 of them in intensive care units. The workload on hospital staff is increasing, interventions that can be planned are sometimes postponed, and structures in the hospitals are being adapted. When it comes to the vaccination quota, Upper Austria is still in last place with 59.3 percent. The criticism of crisis management has recently increased.
The state government is now reacting with further measures. According to reports, Governor Stelzer will, among other things, announce the introduction of the 2.5G rule for restaurants, hotels, hospitals, homes and cultural establishments for next week on Thursday. This means that rapid antigen tests are no longer accepted, only PCR tests. The offer for the latter is to be expanded.
As reported, according to the federal government’s step-by-step plan, the 2.5 rule will come into force in Austria from Monday, whereby living room tests will no longer apply, but rapid antigen tests from the test streets will still be.
It was also leaked today that the state of Upper Austria will introduce a vaccination lottery – for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. So whoever gets vaccinated is playing for prizes. This has already been done in Burgenland, where the vaccination rate is now highest. You want and have to radically increase the vaccination rate in Upper Austria, can be heard in the background.
There will probably also be criticism of the federal government from Upper Austria. First, the state is calling on the federal government to finally send out personal letters for the third-party vaccinations. Only the federal government can do that because it is allowed to have access to the data. Secondly, the expansion of the PCR gargle test offer at the federal level is failing because an agreement is required for the federal government to pay for these tests, according to regional districts.
Source From: Nachrichten
