“Virus is here and it can spread again” – News

According to the dark figure study, a maximum of 11,000 people in Austria are said to have carried the coronavirus at the end of April. A previous study assumed 60,000 people were infected. With 0.15 percent of the population, the country is far from herd immunity. Even in severely affected areas, a maximum of 4.7 percent of the population had the virus.

Judith Aberle from the MedUni Vienna says: “The virus is there and it can spread again.” That is precisely why it is important to continue wearing protective masks and to keep safety distances. This could ensure that the infection is contained and that a second wave does not necessarily have to come, according to the virologist in ORF “ZiB 2”.

“Measures were justified”

“From a virological point of view, it was justified to take action at an early stage,” Aberle says of the government’s strict restrictions. Austria is now in a good situation and can monitor the measures by monitoring the number of infections. The quarantine has broken many chains of infection.

The virologist also warns not only to trust the number of studies, but also to pay attention to the quality of the tests and results. It happens that positive values ​​are wrongly tested and the number of tests overall is very low.

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