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The regulation on the new measures was ready three and a half hours before the planned entry into force. Therefore, the adjustment will not take effect until Sunday.
The regulation announced by Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) for Thursday morning to further toughen the crown’s measures is finally here. Hours after Anschober announced for Thursday morning. Due to the delay, the new measures at the national level will not go into effect until midnight on Sunday and not as planned from midnight on Friday. The Minister of Health announced it in a broadcast Thursday night.
As reported, the regulation also includes a ban on face shields. But now it is also clear that the transition period will last two weeks. The final release of the transparent shields will go into effect on November 7. Under the ordinance, there is full coverage “if the poorly fitted protective device extends to the ears and well below the chin.” Those who cannot be expected to receive such protection for medical reasons can still wear a shield. Children up to six years old are excluded anyway.
Some things were already known, like the return of the one meter distance rule in the open air. There are exceptions for people living in the same household and for groups of six adults plus a maximum of six children. The rule for the disabled and their companions, as well as in public transport, is also invalid. The distance must also be maintained during the sport, if the details of the sport do not contradict it.
Points are now stipulated that were less or less well known before, such as the requirement of a mask for residents in nursing homes and on crosswalks. Amateur choirs and bands can only meet six at the amateur level. At some events there is still food.
There is food in three hour operas.
In principle, events can only have 1,000 visitors indoors and 1,500 outdoors, as announced, and only if there are assigned seats. The total ban on gastronomy, however, does not come. If the event, such as an opera performance, lasts more than three hours, food may be offered. This also applies to events “where food and drinks are normally served”. These can be served on the seat. Anyway, water is always allowed.
Six plus six children
For catering, the maximum group size (per table) is reduced to six people indoors (plus a maximum of six children under 18 who are subject to supervision) and a maximum of twelve people outdoors (plus a maximum of six minors up to the age of 18). Additionally, with the exception of food stalls, markets, and occasional markets, food and beverages can only be consumed while sitting down.
Another novelty is that after curfew, alcoholic beverages cannot be consumed within 50 meters of a restaurant establishment. This also applies to licensed catering gas stations and bars.
Hospice accompaniment must be allowed
When entering the elderly, nursing homes and residences for the disabled, residents in general access areas that do not belong to the habitable zone are also required to carry an MNS as of Sunday. This does not apply to residents who, for specific health or disability reasons, cannot be expected to meet these requirements. Special attention is paid to people with dementia.
In addition, it is expressly established that visits as part of palliative and palliative care support, as well as to support critical life events, must be possible in any case. With all protective measures taken by the home operator, special care must be taken to ensure that proportionality is maintained and unreasonable difficulties are avoided.
Countdown to regulation
The opposition had previously voiced strong criticism of the delay. Neos club deputy chief Nikolaus Scherak wrote in a streaming broadcast Thursday afternoon “constitutional dilettantism.” This questionable approach harms businesses, individuals and the rule of law. He is curious to know when the first fines worth hundreds of euros will be imposed on Friday, “on the basis of a regulation whose content no one knows or is unaware of.”
On Thursday night, the Neos began a half-hour countdown through OTS under the slogan “Little by little it would be urgent”: at 7:00 p.m., the broadcast was published with the title “Five hours still … “. At 7.30 pm the broadcast “Four and a half hours …”
“Laws and ordinances count, not the spoken word”
Even the FPÖ cannot understand why the new Corona regulation is not yet available: “In Austria, laws and regulations and not the word spoken by government representatives count,” party leader Norbert Hofer said in a broadcast on Thursday. in the afternoon.
The president of La Libertad wonders why ordinances are always published at the last second: “At last a rethinking must take place. In the future, the measures should only be announced when the ordinance has already been completed.” Everything else is amateurish and “a plantation”.
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