The government planned more relief, for example, the garden rooms could have been opened.

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Restrictions on the coronavirus epidemic will not be eased before Easter, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz announced on Monday after consulting with experts, the opposition and provincial governors.

This means that the restaurant terraces and gardens will not be open on March 27. This is due, on the one hand, to the linear increase in the number of new diseases per day and, on the other hand, to the threat of congestion in the intensive care units of hospitals.

The situation is the worst in Lower Austria, Burgenland and Vienna, and the government held further talks with their leaders this week to agree on new measures, possibly austerity.

Kurz emphasized that in those settlements, districts and districts where the average illness of seven days per 100,000 people reaches 400, extraordinary measures will be needed. These include abandoning the corona virus test or even stricter monitoring of compliance with measures to curb the epidemic.

The only province where epidemiological data are developing favorably is Vorarlberg. Restaurants, cultural and sports facilities have been open there for a week, it serves as a model region for other much more infected provinces in Austria, and as long as the situation does not get worse, you need not fear any further tightening.

The chancellor asked people to take advantage of one of the free trial options. As a result of the expansion of the testing campaign, free screening is now being carried out not only in the so-called “test streets”, but also in pharmacies and a large number of companies, with the aim of identifying asymptomatic infected people and thus break chains of infection.

Speaking about vaccinations, Kurz said that people over 65 will be in April, those over 50 in May, and by the summer, two-thirds of the vaccinated population – about five million people – can receive at least the first. vaccine.

In Austria, 2,412 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the last 24 hours and 516,565 positive cases have been recorded since the outbreak began. The number of people cared for in the hospital is currently 1983 and there are 437 people in need of intensive care. In the last day, 15 people died from complications of the disease caused by the infection, bringing the death toll to 9,089. The number of people who recovered from the disease was 475,227.



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