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The new COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance brings stricter measures into the everyday life of Austrians, in addition to the measures already in place.
The new government emergency ordinance will go into effect on November 17, 2020 and will be valid until December 6, 2020. Exit restrictions will initially apply until November 26, 2020 inclusive and must be approved by the main committee. from the National Council after ten days. The COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance replaces the previously applicable COVID-19 Protective Measures Ordinance.
Output regulation
Leaving the private living room and staying outside the private living room is only allowed for the following purposes:
– Avoidance of immediate danger to life, limbs and property
– Caring for and providing assistance to people who need support, as well as exercising family rights and fulfilling family obligations.
– Cover the basic necessities of daily life, in particular contact with the partner who does not live in the same home 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
– the coverage of a housing need, the satisfaction of basic religious needs, such as visits to cemeteries and individual visits to places of worship, as well as the care of animals.
– professional and training purposes, if necessary
– Staying outdoors for physical and mental relaxation.
– pursue administrative or judicial processes that cannot be postponed
– participate in the elections provided by law and use the instruments of direct democracy provided by law
– for the purpose of entering customer locations and areas of business facilities permitted to enter under this ordinance and to participate in the events listed in the ordinance
Distance and mouth and nose protection
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.
Mass transportation and car sharing
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.
Shops, commerce and services
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.
The following can remain open:
– public pharmacies
– 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 of animal feed
– 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.
– banks
– 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 rule of 10 square meters per customer and the mandatory use of mouth and nose protection during shopping are also maintained in open stores.
Gastronomy, accommodation, events and sports
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.
work and work
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.
Residences and nursing homes
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.
Hospitals and spas
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.
Period of validity
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.
