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The shutdown will begin on Tuesday as an attempt to control the spread of the infection, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said at a news conference on Saturday.
Unnecessary stores, restaurants, and service businesses like hair salons will close as the current nightly curfew is extended to cover the entire day. However, you can go out to buy basic necessities, such as food and medicine, and exercise, report the Austrian newspapers Kronen Zeitung and Kurier.
People are asked, if possible, to work from home and schools should switch to distance education. Those who live alone can choose a person with whom they can have personal contact during the period.
The new rules will apply for three weeks, until December 6.
With around 7,000 new cases per day, the weekly number is more than ten times what it should be, according to Kurz.
– If we do not react strongly, it will overload the intensive care, says according to Kurier.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is giving a press conference on the new restrictions.
Photo: Herbert Neubauer / AFP
Urge everyone to throw the straw into the pile to slow the spread of the infection.
– My clear call for the next four weeks is: Don’t know anyone! he says.
Austria closed the partnership again this spring and tightened restrictions again in November. But now you take one more step and you are faced with a second “block”. The Federal Chancellor believes that no one wants a second shutdown, but that this is the only sure way to handle the situation.
– I know that a very difficult time awaits us in the coming weeks.
According to the European The infection control authority ECDC currently has the highest number of new infections in Austria worldwide, spread over a period of seven days and in relation to the number of inhabitants. The country has about 860 new cases per million inhabitants, which corresponds to 0.86 percent of the population, reports Kronen Zeitung.
On Friday, a record number of new cases was recorded, 9,586 infected, which is nine times the peak during the first wave this spring, writes Reuters.
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