Despite the recent rise in the Corona-infection numbers in hopes of the Austrian government, to the development of regional mitigation Mr. The Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and Vice-Chancellor, Werner Kogler (Green) on Friday in Vienna clearly. They wanted to prevent “everything in the world a second Lockdown,” said Short. By “Containment” applies to it, “regional clusters on-the-spot” reduce, to prevent a “conflagration”.
Stephan Löwenstein
Political correspondent, based in Vienna.
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for the First time since the beginning of the loosening in mid-may, the number of new infections in Austria per day has risen this week over a hundred, on a Friday, 109 for the second Time. A focus is in upper Austria. As a “Cluster” identified by the state government in Linz, the “Church of God Pentecostal Church”, to which 45 of 71 infections were the result. For 500 persons (from them 200 from the Pentecostal Church) has been ordered quarantine, also schools and kindergartens were closed in the three districts.
Bravely Hand in greeting
The compliance with the One-Meter distance rule, in the public space, the mask duty in transport and the curfew should be monitored, from 1 o’clock at night, in Linz tightened. These rules still apply in Austria, but met the eyes glow often more lax. In Vienna has established itself on the Bank of the Danube is a kind of party scene, and in the province of conversation-rich partner, the one with the note “We are here in the country” courageously Hand in greeting.
