Index – Abroad – A new adjustment is coming in Austria, shopping centers are also expected to close



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In Austria, schools are likely to close and the blinds in shopping centers may also be drawn down. Smaller shops can certainly stay open, writes MTI based on information from the Austrian news portal oe24.at. There is no formal decision yet, measures It is likely to be announced on Saturday by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

Schools will switch to distance education, only kindergartens will remain open or a maximum of lower secondary students from primary school will be able to attend school. In trade, the Vienna government also does not want to impose a complete shutdown, which would lead to an economic collapse. Other steps are still being discussed. Which will surely tighten.

In Austria, the records of infections are constantly decreasing. On Thursday, 9,262 new cases were reported. Meanwhile, Austria’s health burden is also increasing: 3,811 patients infected with the coronavirus are being hospitalized and more than five hundred are in intensive care.

Austria, with a population of nearly 9 million, has so far had 181,642 infections and 1,608 deaths from the coronavirus.



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