Only on Wednesday did the number of new infections rise to 15,149, the highest since the beginning of April. Yet the call for the abolition of the corona quarantine is getting louder and louder. Health Minister Johannes Rauch is considering relaxation. According to the Viennese Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ), this is completely absurd.
However, there is no date for the quarantine yet. Hacker criticizes the repeal, and Vienna recently tightened its corona rules again. “There is absolutely no reason to shake off the basic pillars of epidemic control,” he criticized in “ZiB 2” on Thursday evening. Because even infected people without symptoms can infect other people – the risk is just as given.
Isolate infected people as soon as possible
“That’s why it’s been clear for centuries: whoever is infected should be isolated as soon as possible,” says Hacker. It is not clear to him why Rauch is now leading this debate: The WHO is still talking about a global health crisis, but “in our small country we now decide by law to end the corona pandemic.” For him, that is the opposite of what Austria needs at the moment: “We need clarity and we need courage.”
The idea that infected people should be able to infect their colleagues at work and then nobody knows how many people in a work force are infected is completely absurd for hackers. Discussing this now “is an act of desperation that I cannot understand.”
Vienna will continue to follow a more difficult path
It is completely unacceptable for him to call off the pandemic in the summer and then be surprised in the fall. That is why Vienna will continue to take a harder road. Hacker, for example, would like to see the possibility of entry keys returned at major events.
The right time to relax these quarantine measures is only when the vaccination rate in Austria is significantly higher. He understood that no one should hear about Corona anymore: “It doesn’t help, it’s a worldwide disease.” Unlike other countries, which have already abolished all Corona regulations, Austria is one of the countries with the lowest vaccination rate.
Source: Krone
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