This was announced by the Austrian government on Friday evening. She decided to tighten up the corona measures for unvaccinated people. If more than six hundred IC beds are occupied by corona patients, there will be restrictions on going out. Austrians who have not been fully vaccinated will then only be allowed to leave their homes in exceptional cases. This lockdown does not apply to people who cannot be vaccinated, such as children under the age of twelve.
“We are about to enter a corona pandemic of unvaccinated people and that must be prevented,” said the new chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, after meeting the prime ministers of the nine states. He ruled out a new lockdown for those who have been vaccinated or recovered from corona, the Austrian news agency APA reports.
2G rule
The new regulations also provide for restrictions on unvaccinated people once more than 500 corona patients are treated in the intensive care units. Then a so-called 2G rule will come into effect in many areas of public life, which refers to the German words vaccinated (vaccinated) and recovered (to cure). This means that unvaccinated people have no access. Schallenberg hopes the plans will send a signal to people who are skeptical about vaccination. According to him, there are still too many ‘hesitants and procrastinators’.
The situation in the IC wards in Austria is still largely stable, despite the recent significant increase in the number of new infections. Currently, about 220 IC beds are occupied by Covid patients. Should this number rise to six hundred, the fifth and final phase of the roadmap with massive nightlife restrictions for unvaccinated people has been reached. “We are currently at level one and are now looking very far into the future,” said Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein.
The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a week (the so-called seven-day incidence) is almost 230 in Austria. 62 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. The government recently decided that from November 1, many workers in the workplace will have to demonstrate that they have been vaccinated, regularly tested or recovered from Covid-19. The new step-by-step plan also states that from an occupancy of four hundred IC beds, only PCR tests will count as proof and rapid tests will no longer be used.
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