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Vienna Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is warning with drastic words against the spread of the crown pandemic in Austria. “What we are currently experiencing is the beginning of the second wave. The number of infections is increasing day by day,” the head of ÖVP said in a written statement to the APA. Addresses the “urgent appeal” to the population to adhere to the measures.
“Two weeks ago there were around 350 infections a day, yesterday we already exceeded 850. The development is particularly dramatic in Vienna, where around 50 percent of all new infections are recorded in Austria. And we will soon reach the 1000 new mark. infections per day Day “, so the chancellor hopes.
“It will be a tough fall and winter”
“I ask the population to comply with all measures, reduce social contacts, use oral and nasal protection and keep their distance as much as possible everywhere,” Kurz appealed. Overall, though, the head of government sticks to his assessment, expressed in late August, that light can be seen at the end of the tunnel, and that summer will be largely normal again next year. “But it will be a tough fall and winter for all of us. So now we are all called and challenged to overcome the challenges of the coming months together with the same discipline and consideration as in spring.”
