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Chancellor Karl Nehammer does not hold out the prospect of an end to the Corona pandemic any time soon; on the contrary.
“We will not soon reach the status that the pandemic is over,” he says in the “profil” interview. With Omicron, a paradigm shift is taking place. With the new variant, there is “obviously no limit, we have to adjust to new dimensions. The duration of the quarantine will probably have to be shortened; Gecko is working on this.
He points to the threat of major outages, which would be especially dangerous in critical infrastructure, health care and food supplies. Nehammer defends the vaccination obligation decided on Thursday in the National Council – “because only vaccination keeps us free” – and also the “incentives” through the announced vaccination lottery. That with the vaccination obligation Corona Tets become liable to pay the costs, excludes Nehammer.
Nehammer also defends the high Corona aid to the economy – 42 billion euros so far. “If the government demands that the business activity can no longer be carried out, then the government must also provide compensation.” Once the crisis is over, however, he said, the government will “once again give priority to a sustainable budget.”
A survey by the opinion research institute Unique research, also published in the new “profil,” shows that the majority still considers the Corona protection measures necessary. 50 percent said they would continue to adhere strictly to all measures because they “absolutely do not want to catch omicron.” 33 percent comply “by and large,” but accept that they will “sooner or later become infected with Omikron.” And only 13 percent have “had enough of the measures,” don’t want to limit themselves, and don’t care about infection.
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As expected, the differences by age group are large: Of those over 60, two-thirds do not want to be infected under any circumstances; of those under 30, only about one-third are – and the majority of young people (51 percent) accept that they will be infected with corona sooner or later.
- source: k.at/picture: pixabay.com
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