With another 10% immunized, Austria will be able to say goodbye to the coronavirus

In the rate of coronavirus vaccination or recovery from Covid-19 disease Austria A professor of virology points out that it should be about ten percentage points higher so that the country “has total protection and can declare the end of the pandemic.”

Dorote von Laer, a professor of virology at the University of Innsbruck Medical University, said in an interview with Austrian Public Radio on Monday (13/9) that “Austria has not yet reached the point where we have sufficient immunity in the population to be able to run even more in children.».

Across Austria, almost 60% of people have been vaccinated twice against SARS-CoV-2, and last week, there was an increase in immunity of only about 0.6%.

Dorothy von Laer considers the case to be a problem coronavirus in schools it is -except for children and adolescents with underlying diseases, who are particularly at risk- “not necessarily children, but the problem is of course the parents or other contact persons of children who have not yet been vaccinated”.

According to the Athens News Agency, citing Austrian media, the professor of epidemiology emphasizes that the quarantine period of at least ten days can be shortened for cases of infection in classrooms, and that “a test can be done after five days and if this is negative, sent then the children back to school “.

“THE Delta mutation is so contagious that it is relatively likely that children who are further away will be infected. “So if you really want to get rid of infections right away in the classroom, then you should probably send all the kids to quarantine for at least five days,” he said.

The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna reported today, Monday, 1,543 new coronavirus infections in Austria in the last 24 hours, a total of 10,840 deaths by or from Covid-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic, while 753 people are currently hospitalized and of these 191 are in Intensive Care Units.

According to the Food and Safety Administration, the “incidence of seven days”, ie the number of new coronavirus infections in the last seven days per 100,000 inhabitants, is 159.4.

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