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Chancellor Sebastian Kurz rejects criticism that Austria is just repeating mistakes made last summer with its opening course and that the numbers will rise again when autumn comes. The pandemic takes place in waves with seasonal peaks, and the rising numbers in the fall have nothing to do with the social behavior of people in July. In addition, two-thirds of the population will probably have been vaccinated by the end of the summer, which means that Austria is “very well prepared for the next wave.”
The much more contagious delta variant, which first appeared widely in India and has recently led to a significant increase in the number of infections again in numerous countries, must be closely monitored, he said. “But there is no reason to panic at all,” Kurz said.
Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens), according to the newspaper in an interview with oe24.tv, expects individual hotspots of the new variant, “but the spread will probably be relatively slow.” However, the increase will come in any case, one must therefore “vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate”.
— sources: kurier.at and oe24.tv/picture: pixabay.com
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