This will offer an assessment of the coming days, it said. The infection rate is currently on the decline. How strong this development is and whether it is a sustainable trend reversal will only be seen in the coming days, says the Ministry of Health. Therefore, watch the development and communicate the next steps next week.
The currently applicable lockdown had been extended the day before in the main committee of the National Council until December 11th. According to Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens), what happens after that depends on the further epidemiological situation. In any case, the lockdown will be extended for unvaccinated people.
Although the west lags behind the east in terms of the seven-day incidence, Vorarlberg assumes that the lockdown will end at the same time. “If the downward trend continues to be the same across Austria, it makes sense to proceed the same,” said Governor Markus Wallner (ÖVP) on Wednesday in response to a corresponding APA request. In any case, Upper Austria will pull out. The local governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) had announced that he wanted to stick to the original schedule despite the nationwide lockdown, i.e. to keep the country in a shutdown state until at least December 17th.
On Tuesday, Wallner named three conditions that must be met for opening steps: For a lockdown end, there must be a significant decrease in the seven-day incidence, the prognosis for occupancy of the intensive care capacities must be good, “and the vaccination rate must be up “. There will be a federal-state summit next week to discuss the possible end of the lockdown. Until then, the development of the situation will of course be closely monitored and assessed.
Vorarlberg recently had a seven-day incidence of 1,261. Tyrol was 1,124, Salzburg 1,323. The Austrian average was 894 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Source From: Nachrichten
