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Already feared 3,000 sick people in Vienna – Vienna

Vienna’s City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) assumes a high number of unreported cases in Corona cases. The true number of infections could be three times as high.

As of Thursday, 6,856 people in Austria tested positive for the corona virus, 547 people were treated in hospital and 96 were looked after in an intensive care unit. 49 people died from the corona virus. There are 825 patients in Vienna. City councilor Hacker had told the “moth” that there could be a hundred times as many.

On Thursday evening, hackers relaunched this statement. The number of unreported cases was not a hundred times the known illnesses, he wanted to express how little one knew about the illness. “No country has left behind, we are constantly researching and learning”, Hacker told ORF presenter Armin Wolf.

When asked for a serious estimate of the number of people infected with the coronavirus, Hacker said, “Two to three times the number we test positive.” This would already make it possible for up to 3,000 Corona people to be infected in Vienna. That’s why, according to hackers, you also try to find out where the affected person might have been infected as quickly as possible.

Nonetheless remove the locks

In Vienna, people started extremely early on “visiting people with symptoms at home so that they didn’t have to go to the doctor or hospital,” said Hacker. The comparatively high number of deaths compared to the rest of Austria can be explained by the population structure of the city: Many elderly people and people with previous illnesses also live here in institutions.

That would be tested too slowly, hackers can not be put up with. Follow the rules of the game set by the federal states, and the number of test options is manageable: “In Vienna we were given 3,000 tests. If they are used up, we have to wait for the next delivery.” The call for testing “reaches the limit of the” realistic and feasible “.

At the same time, hackers also say that parking and playground closures cannot be maintained in Vienna. “It will have to happen in Vienna in the next few days that we will reopen places,” said Hacker. You cannot live in a city with hundreds of thousands of people and cordon off the playgrounds for the children. “People are waiting in small apartments for them to go out again, children need space and want to romp around,” says Hacker. The barriers would be lifted “sooner rather than further away”. In the risk group of older people, hackers say, “Please set discipline and for a longer period of time.”

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