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Friday, December 18, 2020
Graduated plan for summer
Austria enters the third running of the bulls
Austria wants to have overcome the corona pandemic by summer. Chancellor Kurz returns the country to blockade after the festival. By mid-January, public life should completely restart. If you want to participate from the beginning, you have to take the test.
Austria will be blocked again after Christmas. The restrictions apply from December 26 to January 17 inclusive, as Chancellor Kurz said after a cabinet meeting. It is the third blockade of the Alpine republic. Then much of the trade is shut down again and body-friendly services are banned. Also, massive exit restrictions apply. Schools will focus exclusively on distance learning for the first week after the end of the Christmas break.
On the weekend of January 18 and 19, there will be more massive tests with the opportunity to “prove yourself freely,” Kurz said. On this weekend, gastronomic and cultural institutions should reopen and tourism begin. Winter tourism is one of the most important economic sectors in the country.
If you don’t participate in these tests, you must go into quarantine for another week, Kurz said. If, on the other hand, you get a negative result, you can once again participate in unbridled public life.
According to Kurz, the objective of these measures is to bring the incidence of 7 days below 100 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the fight against the pandemic, the country also relies on a massive expansion of testing. After consulting with the expert, his cabinet and the governors, Kurz assumes that Austria will return to normalcy by summer at the latest. Vaccinations, which begin December 27, are also an important component to this.
The strategy briefly outlined the country as a step-by-step plan. After the current measures for Christmas have been relaxed, the lockdown will come first and then the opening in mid-January, secured by massive testing.
