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The rumor mill simmers and with it the uncertainty in the population increases: is a new blockade looming? ORF also addresses this issue.
“ZiB” head of internal policy Hans Bürger wants an answer to this: “The government has been playing with various concepts for many weeks and days, and what you hear, two concepts emerge: a soft lockdown, not like the we have done before we are used to it, which could start on November 2. Or on November 16, all for two or three weeks, “explains the long-time political journalist from” ZiB.
However, legally, the government faces a problem. A far-reaching exit blockade and restrictions could only be prescribed “to avoid an imminent collapse of medical care or similar emergency situations.” At least that’s what the current version of the Covid 19 Measures Law says. “Defining that, will be the question. If it really escalates, it can lead to a hard lockdown as we have known it since spring, but of course it can also be soft”.
In the case of a soft closing, according to Bürger, only curfew hours would be brought forward in restaurants, for example in Vienna (“11pm can be heard”) or even lower personal limits would be set for private parties . “There is also a package of measures, but all of that has been reserved for the day after the Vienna elections.”
Fear of collapse
For the ÖVP part of the government in particular, it is “very, very important” that the ski season works out in “some way” in Austria, Bürger continued. But if the situation worsens, guests are in danger of getting lost, a disaster for tourism and commerce. “You just want to re-represent Austria as a country that, of course, is not exempt from Corona, but where the numbers are significantly lower than now. This fear of a collapse in tourism should trigger these measures in November,” he concludes the “ZiB”. -Director of department your analysis.
