In Lower Austria in particular, one puzzles how this development came about. In the Melk district with 40 municipalities, the Austrian peak of more than 1,000 per 100,000 inhabitants persisted on Thursday with the seven-day incidence. And also with the neighbors in Scheibbs the unpleasant value increased further to 777.3. Lilienfeld and Amstetten also rose again. In Amstetten, on the other hand, a new record was set on Thursday with 205 cases, reported district chief Martina Geresdorfer. This meant that the seven-day incidence had risen to 502.6, which made the regulation for exit controls necessary from midnight.
In the Melk and Scheibbs area, the police have been carrying out random checks since the weekend. In Melk around 5,000 vehicles have been stopped and 168 drivers turned back since Saturday, in Scheibbs there were 2,408 cars with 22 refusals to leave the country.
In the affected districts, authorities and those affected are faced with the question of how the high numbers of infections could come about. In any case, they are not due to large clusters, as they were known from the beginning of the pandemic, according to the office of SPÖ State Health Councilor Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig.
Several factors
There are several factors in social life that determine what happens. Infections in companies, in schools, at private meetings or as part of a round of cards appear in the analysis of the Melk district.