Coronavirus in Austria: Popular holiday destination is classified as risky - first measures take effect immediately

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism industry in Austria is preparing for the winter season, while the number of new corona infections is increasing.

A popular holiday destination is tightening its measures.

The news ticker.

• Coronavirus pandemic

  : The

  RKI has been

  warning of parts of

  Austria

  as

  Covid-19 hotspots

  since September

  .

• Many vacationers are

  already

  canceling their trips because of the

  Corona

  * travel warning.

• Students

  from

  Vienna

  can

  keep their distance

  in

  church

  .

  This

  news ticker

  is updated regularly.

Update from October 6th, 10:45 p.m

.: It is one of the most popular recreation areas in

:

, around 60 kilometers southeast of

.

Mainly the city dwellers are drawn here.

But:

According to the news portal

district of

has

now been set to orange warning level (high risk)

by the

.

Means: Tightened measures to contain the insidious

taking effect.

Specifically: Events with more than 250 people in closed rooms and with more than 500 people outdoors will be prohibited from Wednesday.

Only employees of the company concerned are allowed to eat in company canteens, and at sporting events the bar must close after the game.

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Popular recreation area in Austria: Lake Neusiedl.

© Popp & Hackner / dpa

Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: Rudolf Anschober warns again

Update from October 6th, 9 pm:

has

once again

got into the

.

given the warning - and described the latest

in the Alpine republic as "far too high".

“923 ​​new infections in 18,237 tests are far too high for the current time and urgently need to be lowered.

There are 732 newcomers, ”said the head of department, according to the

from the Ministry of Health in Vienna on Tuesday afternoon.

The capital is therefore still the

, contact person management in the metropolis on the Danube "sometimes still takes too long".

“We have to significantly reduce these far too high numbers.

We can achieve this through strong regional measures in districts with an increased risk and through a mood like in the spring in the population, ”said the 59-year-old Green politician.“ According to

, the

high numbers

are primarily due to the fact that direct Contact persons from

had been tested.

Corona pandemic in Austria: Students from the University of Vienna go to church to study

Update October 6, 2020 17:10:

The

has given the corona crisis a special

set up for their students.

In the

in the city center, the young women and men can escape the crowds in the lecture halls at least until the end of October and open their laptops.

"The WiFi is good, only the power sockets are missing," said a political science and psychology student.

The

university pays a small amount

for the shared use of the neo-Gothic sacred building completed in 1879, the construction of which is reminiscent of a failed assassination attempt on

Emperor Franz Joseph I.

A toilet trailer was set up in front of the church.

In addition, security personnel check whether

rules are being observed.

With nearly 90,000 students, including many from Germany, the University of Vienna is one of the largest universities in Europe.

Update from October 6, 2020, 7.26 a.m

.: A close employee of

has Corona - the head of government then received his test result on Tuesday night.

Kurz and his

Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) had canceled all appointments on Monday as a precaution.

His cabinet colleagues have also tested negative for the corona virus.

The employee was also present at a cabinet meeting last Wednesday.

He was also in contact with journalists.

As reported by oe24.at, the employee was only likely to be contagious from Friday.

It is therefore initially unclear where the man was infected.

Corona in Austria: Virus alarm in the Chancellery

Update from October 5, 2020, 8.45 p.m.:

While the Austrian Chancellor

still waiting for his test result, the test result from Finance Minister

available.

As reported by oe24.de, Blümel was tested negative for the corona virus.

Meanwhile, Health Minister

canceled all upcoming appointments.

As a spokeswoman confirmed to the Austrian newspaper, this is a "pure precautionary measure".

In the event that Sebastian Kurz should test positive for the corona virus, there is apparently already a plan on how to proceed.

Accordingly, the Chancellor should go into quarantine together with his closest employees in the Chancellery and continue to perform his office from there.

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Corona in Austria: Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had to be tested for Sars-CoV-2 - the result is now available.

© Roland Schlager / dpa

Update October 5, 2020 18:45:

After an employee of Austrian Chancellor

(ÖVP) positive for the

had been tested, is now short "voluntary home quarantine" as reported oe24.de.

The Chancellor also told the editor-in-chief of the Austrian newspaper: “I am currently symptom-free, I am fine.” The test result should be available around midnight.

Corona in Austria: Record number of new infections - Federal Chancellor Kurz employees tested positive

Update October 5, 2020 16:55

: An

of Austria's

(ÖVP) is positive for the

been tested.

The head of government and

(Greens) were

in

with the employee for the last time

on

, the Chancellery announced on Monday.

The affected employee was

tested

last Tuesday evening

.

Until their own test results were available,

and

had

all

.

The result is expected late Monday evening.

As a precautionary measure, all colleagues from the employee's environment would now be tested immediately.

Around

are affected

.

Corona in Austria: the number of deaths is also increasing

Update from October 5, 2020, 10:12 a.m.:

The trend towards increasing numbers of

continues unabated.

After the second highest daily value since the outbreak of the pandemic was measured on Saturday with more than 1,000 new cases, the new infections also reached an alarming record on Sunday.

In the last 24 hours, 750 new infections with the coronavirus were registered nationwide, which is the highest Sunday value of the year.

There

is also a worrying development

in the

:

from the virus in just one day

.

Coronavirus: Vienna with an unprecedented high level of new infections

Update from October 3, 2020, 3:04 p.m.:

Just one day after

(Greens) believed that

stabilizing

, the numbers rose from Friday to Saturday to the

since the outbreak of the pandemic.

were recorded within 24 hours, the highest since the end of March.

Anchober spoke of a

of current new infections in Austria.

The situation in

is particularly explosive

.

There, with

the highest 

 new cases since the beginning of the pandemic was registered

in the past 24 hours

.

Corona in Austria: according to numbers at record level - increase slowed down again

Update from October 2, 5:28 p.m

.: The increase in corona cases in

is alarming

message

- but has recently slowed down.

After the number of infections * had suddenly

about a month ago

, they have remained largely

since mid-September

.

Health Minister

spoke on Friday in Vienna of “stabilization with numbers that are clearly too high”.

He is aiming for a

in the next one to two months.

Around 8,400 people in Austria are currently considered to be actively infected with the Sars-CoV-2 * coronavirus.

According to the latest data from the Corona Commission (as of Wednesday evening),

Austria recently counted

per 100,000 inhabitants

nationwide in one week

.

The numbers fluctuate extremely regionally, the capital

counts

all active cases and new cases in the country.

Austria at record threshold: "Heavy blow" for tourism - the first consequences are already evident

Original

report

: Munich / Vienna - With over 800 new infections from Wednesday (September 30th) to Thursday (October 1st),

approaching

its record high from the beginning of the

in March 2020.

Warned about

the high number of infections now also the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in front of parts of the Alpine republic.

Blow for tourism: Parts of Austria are corona risk areas

In September the RKI decided that parts of Austria are officially classified as risk areas.

First it hit the federal state of

on September 16,

followed by the state of

on September

23

and the state of

on September 25

.

In Austria there is also a Corona traffic light. * It shows which areas of the country are affected by Corona and to what extent.

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Preparations for the winter season in Austria are underway - but how many holidaymakers will accept the offer this year is still open after the RKI's corona travel warning (symbol image).

© Felix Hörhager / dpa / archive

On the one hand, the high number of new infections is a problem with regard to the second wave of the corona pandemic *.

On the other hand, this classification by the RKI has massive effects on tourism businesses in particular.

“Entire villages live on Ischgl.

That is an

in this region of the Tyrolean Oberland “, says the Tyrolean photographer Lois Hechenblaikner in an interview with Tagesschau.

Effects of Corona: high losses for tourism in Austria feared

Günther Platter, Governor of Tyrol, also speaks there: “A third of all overnight stays in Austria take place in Tyrol.

We earn every third euro through tourism. ”The drastic consequences of classifying Tyrol as a

are

already evident

for

.

Harald Mahrer: "Due to Corona, the situation for many city hotels in Austria is more serious than many believe."

⚡ Regarding the required measures: https://t.co/QZpyj8IBrj pic.twitter.com/e7dWVW3q9O

- Austrian Chamber of Commerce (@WKOe) October 2, 2020

Mario Gerber is a tourism representative in the Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ) and spoke to the German Press Agency (dpa).

He reported that hotels in parts of Tyrol have already been hit by a wave of cancellations due to Corona: “This is a very heavy blow for us.” Even houses in which no cases of infection have been reported so far suffer from 50 percent cancellations.

These are the corona infection numbers for Austria

The number of confirmed corona infections in

has risen again, but does not reach the high value (+825 new infections) of September 30th.

This is communicated by the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection.

Overall, an increase in the number of cases to 46,812

infections was reported

on Friday, October 2

.

That is 678 more people than the day before.

37,186 people are currently considered recovered in Austria.

There were also a total of 803 deaths.

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