“The pandemic situation in Austria is serious. Very serious,” said Van der Bellen literally in the message to the federal and state governments. The situation in the hospitals and intensive care units is worrying, “sometimes already unbearable”. The health workers are at their limit. There is a threat of overload and the prognoses for the next few weeks do not bode well, warned the Federal President. “Action has to be taken.”
The head of state also responded to the mood in the population. In view of the extremely rising numbers, this ranges “from depression and worries about economic progress to mutual incomprehension and aggression”. Leading experts agree on the necessary goal. So measures would have to be taken that have a very short-term effect, quoted Van der Bellen. Contacts would have to be reduced by 30 percent.
Van der Bellen also reported that he had already spoken to Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (VP) and some state governors on Friday and that he had clearly expressed his concern about the threatening situation. Austria now needs both clarity and a common approach, “no quarrel and no new rifts,” he urged. “Rapid, consistent, constitutional action and clear decisions – even if these are inconvenient” are now necessary.
Source From: Nachrichten
