In Austria, people who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus are threatened with quarantine in the event of a further deterioration of the epidemiological situation, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced the new restrictions after the extraordinary meeting of the cabinet on Friday evening. As he said, this step will be taken when the intensive care units of Austrian hospitals are filled to a certain level.
"We are on the way to falling into the epidemic of the unvaccinated," said the chancellor.
Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein emphasized that those who are not among those who have recovered from the coronavirus infection or those who have been immunized should expect significant restrictions and restrictions on going out in accordance with the addition of the multi-stage plan adopted by the government and provincial leaders in mid-September.
According to the ideas, if intensive care units are 25 percent full, the so-called 2G rule will be introduced, according to which unvaccinated people, even with a recent negative test, cannot stay in an environment with a risk of infection, such as restaurants, hotels, various events, and cannot visit patients in hospitals or people cared for in nursing homes. In the last step, i.e. when the intensive care units are 30 percent full, quarantine is ordered for the unvaccinated. Under the scope of this, the affected persons can only leave their residence with a compelling reason.
Schallenberg ruled out that the lockdown would affect both those who had been vaccinated and those who had recovered. As he said, he hopes that the plans will stimulate the desire to get vaccinated.
Currently, the intensive care units of Austrian hospitals are 11 percent full, which corresponds to the first stage of the epidemic plan, 33 percent saturation is considered critical. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Austria, 791,226 infected people have been identified, of whom 11,233 have died of the disease. In the last week, there were an average of 230 coronavirus infections per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Source: MTI
