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The federal president calls on the population to join everyone
Take precautionary measures to survive the “hopefully the last third of the pandemic.”
Even if the traffic light is only used symbolically, one thing is clear: the situation regarding the coronavirus is again deteriorating in Austria. Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen called on Austrian residents to take disciplinary action on Tuesday. We must “do everything possible to avoid a second blockade,” Van der Bellen told a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj in Vienna. A lockdown would be “extremely damaging” to the economy and employment.
“I call on all people in Austria to adhere to precautionary measures so that we can keep the pandemic under control during the next flu season,” said the 76-year-old man. Austria has so far “overcome the health crisis relatively lightly, because, I say exaggeratedly, everyone has adhered to the necessary restrictions”.
Businesses should watch the weather
The pandemic “is not over,” Van der Bellen warned. “Now is the time to take another deep breath for the last third of this strange marathon of the pandemic, the end of which we all long for, of course.” In relation to overcoming the economic crisis triggered by the epidemic, Van der Bellen insisted that “the restart of the economy must be oriented towards sustainability.” After all, there will “never” be a vaccine against the climate crisis.
With Selenskyj, Van der Bellen welcomed his first state guest since the crown crisis on Tuesday. In a joint press conference with the federal president, he welcomed the fact that following border closures in the wake of the crown crisis, Austria had also established a humanitarian corridor through which thousands of Ukrainians could have returned to their land. native.
(THAN)
