Chancellor will step in after today’s Council of Ministers Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) in front of the press. “It is a challenging time for Austria“He says. The restrictive measures are necessary for the protection of the elderly. The measures should be shared by everyone.” Let us not downplay the situation. We are there differently than in Italy. We notice that the process is the same in all European countries, “says Kurz. It is important that the Flu wave does not coincide with the Corona infection rate. Chancellor Kurz himself is currently more in contact with his parents by phone.
Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler joins the Chancellor in his statement. The civil service has received guidelines on how to behave from now on. “This is a bigger responsibility than you think”, said Kogler. Public service workers must be protected; that also means that some officials will do home offices.
“We didn’t take the easy way for the increasingly drastic measures,” says Kogler. “It makes a difference whether we have doubling rates every three days or every 10 days. The difference is about 10,000 cases.”
Trend reversal in China
Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober (Greens) explains that although it is in China there is already an increasing relief of the situation. “We have 62,000 people in Chinawho have recovered. 80,000 were sick. “In China it took two and a half months for this trend reversal to occur. Italy but have “very, very, very worrying numbers”, so Angler. “10,000 are ill. In China the situation wasn’t as bad quantitatively as China.” The Lombardy no longer have medical capacities. The numbers are also increasing rapidly France, Italy and the Switzerland.
Angler defined for Austria two goals. “The delay because we still have the flu wave for three weeks. Until then, we want to achieve the delay.” The second important point is the protection of older people over the age of 70.
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