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The government is tightening measures nationwide to curb corona infections, because there hasn’t been a day without a spike since late September. The reason for this is no less important that the coronavirus is now spreading much more strongly in rural areas than when it broke out in September. All the adjustment will apply from Friday for the first four weeks.
AUSTRIA. The basic rules of keeping distance, hygiene rules and the use of mouth and nose protection, where previously provided, still apply, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) emphasized at Monday’s press conference. In addition, new measures apply from Friday:
Private meetings, events without seat assignment
- a maximum of six people inside
- Maximum 12 people outdoors (plus underage children)
- General mask requirement in all events
- No food or drink allowed at events (except for the entire training and higher education day)
- Maximum number of officially approved events drops to 1,000 indoors, 1,500 outdoors, no hospitality
Gastronomy
- A maximum of 6 people at the inside table (plus underage children), 12 people outside
- I don’t drink in front of the bar after curfew
Mandatory prevention concept for restaurants with> 50 seats (instead of the previous 200)
Retirement Homes
- Mandatory MNS in all general areas
- Health checks, pre-registration and mandatory MNS for visitors
- Testing for New and Readmitted Residents
- Uniform Rules for Mandatory MNS for Staff + Regular Exams
Compulsory tests for people who come from abroad and work in services related to the body.
Christmas parties before the end?
The new adjustment of the number of people will also apply from Friday in restaurants, in yoga courses, in dance schools, in birthday parties and weddings. The only exceptions are funerals and professional meetings. Does the regulation also include Saint Nicholas celebrations or Christmas parties? The limit of guests inside a maximum of 6 people, including hosts, applies to all types of meetings, Foreign Minister Kurz clarified at the press conference. However, the police will not monitor private rooms, Kurz said. Children are not counted, the 6 people only include adults.
Possibility of regional adjustment
In addition, the federal states can introduce additional tightening if necessary: bring curfew, prohibition of alcohol (and prohibition of sales from curfew) and mandatory masking in crowded outdoor areas, thinning and learning distance education at universities and schools, stricter measures in nursing homes and retirement homes beyond federal rules, entry bans for gastronomy and commerce, and quarantine measures for municipalities and districts.
Opposition: “Illogical and random”
The SPÖ locates a “continuing lack of government plan” in the management of CoV. “The government slept through the summer, had no general strategy, no test strategy for rapid tests, for example, and politically ‘killed’ the crown traffic light,” he said. The deputy director of the SPÖ club, Jörg Leichtfried. SPÖ health spokesman Philip Kucher also criticized the government’s policy as “fragmentary” and “management for chaos”. The result is that “the population is losing confidence in politics.”
According to the FPÖ, the government measures are illogical. “Even measures in the western federal states, such as advancing the curfew in restaurants and bars, have contributed nothing on the basis of the evidence. Now the rope is being tightened in the restaurant industry so that it is no longer worth the shame for this group and don’t open them at all, “said the FPÖ boss. Norbert Hofer: According to Hofer, it would be better to extend the protection of people at risk, introduce mandatory masks in health facilities (hospitals, homes for the elderly and the elderly, doctors’ offices) and ensure adequate protective equipment in these areas.
NEOS club vice president Nikolaus Scherak demanded that “kindergartens, elementary schools and lower grades remain open.” In the education sector, as in nursing homes and retirement homes, there is once again a need for uniform requirements at the federal level. “A regional patchwork rug doesn’t make sense here. Both the school management and the teachers should know how to proceed. You need maximum clarity, transparency and predictability for parents, teachers and also students. “
Gastro and culture see measures with tranquility
The new measures are not a problem for the catering industry, as WKÖ division president Mario Pulker said in the lunch newspaper Ö1. Because: “Gastronomy is not the super spreader”. In general, the containment of the pandemic would be vital for the gastronomic and hotel industry, because as long as there are travel alerts, tourism, which the industry urgently needs, will not recover, Pulker emphasized.
In federal theaters, the new restrictions were applied calmly: the important thing is that “at least the maintenance of our regular schedule” is what Wien Holding says. Advertisements are also accepted calmly in the Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein.
In short: “Red-White-Red Show of Force”, hardened measurements
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