COVID-19 measures for the second blockade in detail – Coronavirus –

The new COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance brings with it stricter exit regulations and extensive store closures, in addition to measures already in place. Basic supply stores (groceries, pharmacies, post office, banks, etc.) remain open.

The ordinance goes into effect on November 17, 2020 and applies until December 6, 2020 inclusive. According to the relevant provisions of the COVID-19 Measures Act, exit restrictions initially apply until November 26, 2020 inclusive and must be approved by the main committee after 10 days. of the National Council. The COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance replaces the previously applicable COVID-19 Protective Measures Ordinance.

Leaving the private living room and staying outside the private living room is only allowed for the following purposes:

1) Avoidance of immediate danger to life, limbs and property

2) Supervision and assistance to people who need support, as well as the exercise of family rights and the fulfillment of family duties.

3) Covering the basic needs of daily life, as in particular

– Contact with the partner who does not live in the same household or contact with individual close relatives or individual important caregivers, with whom contact is generally maintained several times a week.

– the supply of basic goods of daily life

– the use of health services

– coverage of a housing requirement

– the satisfaction of basic religious needs, such as visits to cemeteries and individual visits to places of worship, as well

– Caring for animals.

4) professional and educational purposes, if necessary.

5) Stay outside to relax physically and mentally

6) to pursue administrative or judicial processes that cannot be postponed

7) participate in statutory elections and use the statutory instruments of direct democracy

8) for the purpose of entering customer locations and areas of business facilities that are permitted under this ordinance and

9) participate in the events listed in the ordinance

The obligation to maintain a minimum distance of one meter from people who do not live in the same address continues to apply, as well as the obligation to wear oral and nasal protection inside public places.

In public transport and associated metro stations, platforms, stops, train stations and airports, people who do not live in the same household must stay at least one meter apart and must wear mouth and nose protection. If due to the number of passengers and at the time of boarding and disembarking it is not possible to maintain a distance of at least one meter, an exception can be made.

In motor vehicles (private car, taxi, Uber) a maximum of two people can be transported per row of seats (exception: shared home). Mouth and nose protection should also be worn.

Cable cars, gondolas and lifts are closed for leisure reasons.

Entering and driving in the customer area of ​​commercial and service companies, including leisure facilities (including theaters, concert halls, cinemas, museums, baths, dance schools, casinos, fairgrounds, etc.) is prohibited. In addition, customer areas can be visited by non-body service companies (car workshops, insurance companies, dry cleaners, tailors, etc.). Businesses offering body hugging services (for example, hair salons, nail salons, piercing studios, massage studios, exception: medical purposes) remain closed.

– Grocery trade (including food producers and agricultural direct marketers outlets)

– drugstores and drugstores

– Sale of medical products and sanitary articles, aids and medical aids

– Health and care services

– Services for people with disabilities, which are provided by the federal states within the framework of disability, social assistance, participation and equal opportunities laws.

– veterinary services

– Sale and maintenance of security and emergency products

– Agricultural trade, including slaughter animal auctions, as well as horticultural business and trade in state products with seeds, fodder and fertilizers.

– Service stations and charging stations, including washing facilities.

– Postal service providers, including their postal partners.

– Ticket counters in train stations and in the metro.

– Tobacco shops and newsstands

– waste disposal companies

– Car and bicycle workshops and

– Car and bicycle rental

Only purchases are allowed from 6 am to 7 pm This does not include pharmacies, gas stations and delivery services. In stores that remain open, however, you can only buy products that correspond to the “typical range of products of the respective store”. The distance rule, the 10 m rule, also applies to open stores²-Rule per customer and the mandatory use of oral and nasal protection during the purchase.

The catering establishments will remain closed. This does not apply to hospitals and spas, facilities for the elderly, facilities for care and disability, facilities for the care and accommodation of children and young people, and company canteens exclusively for employees. It is still possible to collect food and beverages between 6 am and 7 pm Food and beverages cannot be consumed within 50 meters of the commercial premises. As before, the delivery service is possible 24 hours. Accommodation establishments must remain closed for tourist reasons.

The events are still banned. Exceptions are, for example, funerals with a maximum of 50 people, professional meetings that cannot be postponed, meetings of the supervisory board, general assemblies, works council meetings, meetings for the purposes of essential professional training and higher education and conducting of professional final exams that require assistance and are not digitally possible.

Amateur athletes are prohibited from accessing sports facilities for the purpose of playing sports. Higher sport is excluded from this. Individual outdoor sports are still possible.

Kindergarten, school and university are not covered by the scope of the new regulation.

Whenever possible, you should switch to the home office. In the future, an MNS should be used in the workplace if the minimum distance is less than one meter. Other suitable protective measures (permanent equipment, partitions) are also possible.

For protection in nursing homes and elderly, employees in the respective facilities should be examined once a week. If testing is not available in sufficient numbers, priority should be given to testing employees who have contact with residents. As an alternative to testing, a Corona SARS-CoV-2 pandemic respiratory protective mask (CPA) or an equivalent or higher standard mask should be worn. Operators must implement appropriate prevention concepts based on risk analysis and state of the art.

Residents of nursing homes and for the elderly can be visited by one person at most once a week (except for palliative and hospice support and pastoral care).

Visitors must show a negative test result. In the case of an antigen test, the sample must be taken a maximum of 24 hours before, and in the case of a PCR test, a maximum of 48 hours. If a negative test result cannot be presented, a Corona SARS-CoV-2 pandemic respiratory protective mask (CPA) or an equivalent or higher standard mask should be worn at all times.

To protect hospitals and health centers, employees must be tested once a week. As an alternative to testing, a Corona SARS-CoV-2 pandemic respiratory protective mask (CPA) or an equivalent or higher standard mask should be worn.

Patients who have been admitted to hospitals or health centers for more than one week can be visited by one person per week. The exceptions are:

– Visits to underage patients (maximum two people to accompany you)

– Patients who need support (a maximum of two people to accompany)

– a maximum of one person to accompany her during examinations during pregnancy and before and during delivery and to visit her after delivery

– Visits in the context of hospice and palliative support, pastoral care and support in critical life events.

– Patient advocates in accordance with the Housing Law (UbG), Federal Law Gazette No. 155/1990, as well as commissions established for the protection and promotion of human rights

Visitors must show a negative test result. In the case of an antigen test, the sample must be taken a maximum of 24 hours before, and in the case of a PCR test, a maximum of 48 hours. If a negative test result cannot be presented, a Corona SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Respiratory Protection (CPA) mask or equivalent or higher standard should be worn.

The ordinance goes into effect on November 17, 2020 and applies until December 6, 2020 inclusive. According to the relevant provisions of the COVID-19 Measures Act, exit restrictions initially apply until November 26, 2020 inclusive and must be approved by the main committee after 10 days. of the National Council. The COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance replaces the previously applicable COVID-19 Protective Measures Ordinance.

Draft COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance

FAQ_COVID-19-Notmaßnahmenverordnung (PDF, 535 KB)

More information is available on the website of the Ministry of Health.

Source: Ministry of Social Affairs, November 14, 2020

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