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Mandatory mouth and nose protection in stores starting Monday, events are severely restricted. The traffic lights turn yellow in Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck and in two districts of Lower Austria and Tyrol.
Of Veronika Dolna and Michael Jungwirth | 12:37 pm, September 11, 2020
“He’s getting serious again,” Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday morning. The Ministry of Health has another on Friday high increase in corona infections Recorded. Arrived within 24 hours 580 new cases to.
At a press conference he presented Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler, Minister of Health Rudolf Anschober and Home Secretary Karl Nehammer the current change of the Corona traffic light and the stricter measures that will be applied throughout Austria from Monday.
New measures from Monday
From Monday Mouth and nose protection – as in spring – to be mandatory again
• in retail
• in the service sector with customer contact
• when it comes to matches for the authorities
• in schools outside the classroom
TO Events allowed on monday only 50 people left a maximum of 100 people get together outdoors. Large professionally organized events are allowed with assigned seating for up to 1,500 people, outdoors a maximum of 3,000 people.
In gastronomy, this applies again from Monday Mandatory mask for waiters. Food and drinks can only be served inside the seats. This is intended to respond to numerous bar infections.
Multiple regions highlighted in yellow
The Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober, reports from Increases in all federal states. “Urban structures are currently the most difficult,” Anschober said. Therefore, the traffic light commission agreed at its meeting yesterday that to attest to “medium risk” for various regions.
next Graz, Innsbruck and Viennawhich were classified in yellow the previous week, the districts of Korneuburg, Wiener Neustadt, Kufstein and Schwaz are now colored yellow as well. Linz shines green again.
Infection epidemiologist and commission spokesperson Daniela Schmidt warned: “Green does not mean there is no risk.” Therefore, it is reasonable that the new measures are applied throughout Austria. In its recommendation to the Federal Government, the Commission adopted measures of national scope regardless of the color of the traffic light He suggested.
The second block should be avoided
“We want to do everything in our power to avoid a real second wave with exponential development,” said Health Minister Rudolf Anschober. The most important goal is to have a Overload of health institutions to prevent.
Along the way, however, there are many reasons to keep the infection rate as low as possible, the Chancellor emphasized: “The higher the infection rate, the greater the problems in schools and companies, the harder it is to go. abroad and the situation is worse for tourism. “
Upfront: tug of war in Vienna
In the run-up to the traffic light today, there was a riot between the Turquoise Green coalition partners thick air, but only behind the scenes. The starting point of the turquoise green tug of war are the drastic increase in the number of infections since the beginning of the week, especially the question of how the federal government should act in this regard. On Thursday new age numbers appeared with a alarming trend in four Viennese districts in. Leopoldstadt, Brigittenau, Josefstadt, and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (as of Wednesday night) each have more than 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and Leopoldstadt even more than 200 cases, a classic case for an orange or even red switch. But the Crown Commission, which met yesterday, bases its assessment on other parameters, on the seven-day trend from Wednesday to Tuesday at midnight.
The doctor Vienna City Crisis Team He recommended a series of measures on Friday before the new traffic light circuit was published to slow again the rise in coronavirus infections. Speak for one The obligation to use oral and nasal protection is extended in all areas outside. In restaurants, the mask should be required at the bar and on the way to the table. There should also be tightening in the social rooms of companies.
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer was “grateful” at the press conference that there was one “Rethinking the government of the city of Vienna” came. In Vienna, faster tests and evaluations are now needed. “There is still a lot of air” in Vienna when it comes to tracing contacts and monitoring quarantine measures.
Chancellor pushes, Anschober brakes
In the chancellor’s atmosphere yesterday Sebastian Kurz was said to be “very concerned” about the general trends, especially the explosive development in Vienna. In short, “I no longer want to watch” and hopes that the Crown Commission will take stricter measures and “miscalculate the numbers.” The chancellor reportedly urged Vienna to be orange. The Federal Chancellery states that the Vienna elections, which must be won in exactly one month, do not influence the deliberations.
After hours of negotiations, a compromise was reached between the Corona traffic light of 19 people, made up of experts and representatives of the federal government and all the states.
