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Starting Monday, a strict mask requirement will be re-enforced across the country.
At the presentation of the second traffic light, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) announced stricter measures “effective Monday, midnight” on Friday: There will be restrictions on events: 50 people indoors, 100 people outdoors, at large events with a professional concept and with assigned seats are 1500 or 3000.
The new Corona measures will be regulated by decree and will provide that as a preventive measure the protection of the mouth and nose in addition to the areas already prescribed in the Relaxation Ordinance of September 14 throughout Austria in all customer areas in closed rooms in commerce, service area and party traffic. is prescribed. In gastronomy, the mask requirement applies to service personnel, consumption is only possible in closed rooms at the seat, so the bar area remains taboo. In schools, it is mandatory to wear a mask outside of class, as has been stipulated there since the schools in Vienna began.
He briefly called on the Austrians to be more careful again and referred to the situation in Israel, which must be avoided in any case. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) once again pointed out the importance of speed with testing: “The faster the health authorities can react, the better the pandemic can be controlled.” Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) identified the need to catch up on contact tracing.
The chancellor warned that further adjustment could follow, that this was not the “end of the flagpole,” which was announced Friday. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) again referred to Vienna: “I am very grateful that the Vienna city government has also rethought”: what is needed in Vienna and on the federal territory are “evidence and rapid test results “and than” Follow-up quarantine measures. ” He is also grateful to the Hungarian Minister of the Interior, because the restrictions for travelers will no longer apply with immediate effect.
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