Traffic light: Why Salzburg is red and Upper Austria is just orange

Nevertheless, the nationwide Corona traffic light for Salzburg is red, while it is still orange in Upper Austria.

Why is that? The OÖN asked Jakob Hochgerner, the director of the health department of Upper Austria and a member of the traffic light commission. Several different factors are decisive for the risk assessment, said Hochgerner. Among other things, it is crucial how high the proportion of those infected without symptoms is in the respective federal state: In our country, the proportion of asymptomatically infected is 34 percent, in Salzburg only 18.

Higher clearance rate

In addition, the education rate for tracing the sources of infection in Salzburg is at 60 percent slightly lower than in Upper Austria (64 percent), Hochgerner said on request.

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