Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) let it be known: “If the stricter protective measures do not take effect, further measures cannot be ruled out.”
“We need common sense to reach a vaccination rate of 80 percent,” said Luger in a press release. As of Wednesday, 2,349 people in Linz had tested positive for the corona virus, “the maximum number of infected people in December 2020 was 1,600, almost 50 percent lower than currently”. In addition to the hospitals, the schools were a hotspot nationwide. In Linz alone, 240 students tested positive on Tuesday. However, the state capital has among the 18 Upper Austria. Districts still had the best seven-day incidence with 803.7.
Stelzer emphasized in a statement on the night curfew demanded by Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) for everyone that stricter protective measures had been taken in Upper Austria and that night restaurants had already been closed. However, he did not rule out further measures, “should the stricter protective measures not take effect accordingly”. People’s health is a top priority. “The most important thing now is to protect our health care system and the employees in the hospitals from being overburdened.”
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