SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner spoke clearly on Thursday against the currently discussed abolition of the corona quarantine. “You can have no plan, no measures and then drop the quarantine rules,” the red club president said at a media event in Vienna.
Every epidemic is about preventing spread and infection. “Every pandemic and epidemic control is based on these two pillars. You can’t drop everything.” The suggestion that quarantine should only be lifted for asymptomatic people is not an option for her, “because the contagiousness in asymptomatic and symptomatic patients is about the same”.
‘Waiting two months for the fall plan for Corona’
Austria is walking “with eyes wide open to a really uncertain autumn,” said Rendi-Wagner. “We don’t know what to expect in the autumn. It seems that new variants are gaining ground in Austria and Europe again. That means you have to be prepared,” said the party leader and doctor. “We have been waiting for a Corona autumn plan for two months and now there are no more protective measures,” she accuses the government of having failed in this.
Infection remains a notifiable disease
The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that preparations are currently being made for various scenarios for the further development of the Covid 19 pandemic. One possibility is to replace the existing regulations on isolation and quarantine with a so-called traffic restriction. A decision on the future quarantine arrangement is still open. It is clear that an infection will remain a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Act, it said at the request of the APA.
Source: Krone
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