- Title: 432 AT COVID-19 Measures for exams
- Date: 12th August 2020
- Description:Special COVID-19 measures put in place for 5,000 medical university entrance exam candidates The University of Vienna is organizing a huge event to proceed with the application tests for medical studies. 8600 study applicants have registered to do the test to get a place on the Medical University in Vienna. The huge amount of study applicants is not new for the university, but this year they also have to take of safety measures for the young people due to COVID-19. 5400 applicants for a study place will do the test in Vienna, and 2400 will test in Salzburg. All study applicants from the Western parts of Austria, and also applicants from Germany will go to Salzburg to do the test. The arrival of the applicants has been set by a schedule so not everybody will arrive at the same time, also the public transport will intensify their capacity. The artificial ventilation has been intensified to provide safe conditions inside the halls. There is a concept for security and health, over 600 personals will take care of the applicants, including health personal from the red cross, security personal and from the university employees. All helpers had to take a PCR test, and all are negative. The young people applying for a study place do not need any PCR test. They have to wear a mask at the location, and there will be temperature checks at the entrance. The study applicants will get their personally determined place, then they can take remove their masks. The tables are set in distance of nearly 2 meters. If anyone entering has a fever, there is a special health unit taking care of them. There will be further checks and also a PCR test if necessary, and all the applicants showing symptoms are able to do the test at a special place in a hall with tables with a distance of more than 10 meters. Shotlist - VS Exhibition center of Vienna - MS Entrance - WS Entrance hall - VS Temperature check - MS Security checks (ZOOM IN on test hall) - C/U Table prepared for study application test - C/U Table - PAN RIGHT Tables prepared for study application test - WS Closed doors with a sign saying, if you leave the room you can't return to the test - VS Security and temperature checks at the entrance - PAN RIGHT Media at the press conference - SOUNDBITE (German) Anita Rieder, vice-rector for education, Medical University of Vienna: "They need to wear a mask, mouth-nose protection until they are seated at their table. The tables are personalized." - SOUNDBITE (German) Hans Peter Hutter, deputy head of the department for Environment Health: "What is important, and this also applies for schools, and for everything, is rules for distance. You will get a look at this. We have set the tables in the axis with a distance of 2 meters. All will look in the same direction. So we are able to keep the distance. We have a lot of space, and we use this." - PAN RIGHT Hall with tables - SOUNDBITE (German) Anita Rieder, vice-rector for education, Medical University of Vienna: "I have once said in the recent years, that this is our annual Rolling Stones concert, I do not say the same this year, because this year we play on 10 soccer fields. And this is the comparison we use this year, the space we use is like 10 soccer fields." - ZOOM IN and PAN RIGHT Hall for study applicants with symptoms with a distance of 10 meters between the tables
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:13/08/2020
- Decade: 2020s