Coronavirus: Schramböck does not rule out a second lockdown – Coronavirus Vienna

Economy Minister Margarete Schramböck (ÖVP) does not rule out a second “lockdown” due to the crisis in the crown. “I don’t have a crystal ball. Israel didn’t think it would come to that,” Schramböck said Thursday at the “Kleine Zeitung.” The Health Ministry had recently denied rumors of a second lockdown. The NEOS reacted “shocked” to Schramböck’s statement, the FPÖ warned of the “coup de grace for thousands of companies”.

Schramböck combined his warning of a second lockdown with a renewed request to Vienna to introduce an earlier curfew for bars. “Vienna radiates throughout Austria. The responsibility lies with the capital,” said the minister. In fact, Vienna tops the list with 150 new confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days. But also the western federal states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg, with 76 cases, are well above the limit that is decisive for the German travel warning (50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days).

FPÖ boss Norbert Hofer reacted harshly to Schramböck’s remarks. “The government is about to hit our country against the wall. Another closure would be the death sentence for thousands of companies. Every day new confusion, although the national health system still has sufficient capacity to cope with a possible increase of diseases “. criticized in a broadcast. His warning of a second confinement is confirmed.

NEOS health spokesman Gerald Loacker was “shocked”: “The main task of the turquoise green federal government is to prevent a second shutdown.” In light of the new record for new infections, the government is now being asked: “At the moment, it is not the infection figures that are causing this uncertainty, but the chaos of Kurz, Anschober and Co.”