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Austria: The decision to relax the measures is postponed

The consultations scheduled for the day after tomorrow, Monday Austrian federal government coalition of the People’s Party of the chancellor Sebastian Kurtz and the Greens, with experts, the opposition and the governors of the nine L δενnder will not yet make the much-coveted decision to ease measures against the coronavirus.

This was confirmed tonight by an announcement of the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, according to which “no decisions are pending for the period after Easter” (s.s. which for Catholics is this year on April 4).

At the same time, the current information of several Austrian media is not confirmed, for a possible cancellation of the post-tomorrow consultations, which are eagerly awaited by businessmen and workers in catering and tourism, sectors that have been closed for months.

Simply, the consultations will be held on Monday morning via video conference, and as for the decisions, it is still early, “we want to monitor the situation next week as well,” the Chancellery said.

The postponement of decisions on possible relaxation of the measures should not be related to the illness of the Greens, Minister of Health Rudolf ‘Ansober, who, due to a virus, was absent from his duties for the last twenty-four hours, “but it will also be present again on Monday “, as the Ministry of Health assured tonight.

For her part, Pamela Reddy-Wagner, leader of the main opposition Social Democrats, warned that “relaxation would have the opposite effect”. urges the government to discuss measures Monday to tackle the rise in cases.

She herself – a distinguished epidemiologist who served as Minister of Health in the last coalition government of the Social Democrats and the People’s Party – advocating “the path of security and logic”, points out that further steps in this direction would lead the Intensive Care Units even faster at their limits ”.

Unlike most Social Democrat politicians in the states, Pamela Reddy-Wagner is against even opening gardens in the restaurant, as she points out, “with 3,000 new infections a day, with a growing trend and a low vaccination rate,” she said. further relaxation is a very big risk “.

In her view, the goal should be relaxation but only with a steady low number of infections, and in early February there should have been no early openings, but one would have to wait a few more weeks, and “then we would have more stable, lower numbers and we could open permanently at Easter instead of risking hospital overcrowding ”.

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