The coronavirus pandemic is worsening again in Austria.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz provides information about new Covid-19 protective measures - here in the news ticker.
Coronavirus pandemic
*: In
Austria
take the
Corona infections
at high level.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
will
inform
about further
Covid-19 measures
in the Alpine republic
this Thursday (September 17th)
.
Follow the
press conference from Vienna from 2 p.m.
here in the live ticker.
Update from September 17, 2:12 p.m
.: The press conference with
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP)
has started.
Briefly
tells of "extensive consultations by the federal government." He describes an "exposed increase in the
number of newly infected people in Austria
, we have seen the numbers double."
The Austrian head of government seems very serious: "We have to react now to prevent a second lockdown." He indirectly refers to the
German travel warning for the capital Vienna
.
It is now a matter of "cushioning negative effects on the business location and the labor market".
“It is precisely what we enjoy is often the place for infection,” he continues, and announces “three very specific measures throughout
Austria
”.
First report from September 17
- Munich / Vienna - It was a common formula in the first wave of the
coronavirus pandemic
:
In the
corona crisis,
Germany
is
looking
to Austria *
,
after
all, the southern neighbor of the Federal Republic with the infection was always around three Weeks ahead.
With a view to the
corona virus, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder
(CSU)
reiterated it.
And not just him.
Corona pandemic in Austria: Press conference by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
The man, on whom
everything looked
between
Salzburg
and
Munich
, between
Vorarlberg
and
Lake Constance
, between
Vienna
and
Berlin
, wants
to inform
his country people again today - in the middle of the
second Corona wave *
- about the latest status:
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
from the ÖVP.
According to the news portal oe24.at, new
protective measures are
expected
due to the increasing number of
corona cases *
.
For example, there could be a guest limit for private celebrations.
As of Thursday morning, 780 new infections with the
SARS-CoV-2 pathogen had been
added
within 24 hours
.
Coronavirus in Austria: Compared to Germany, many new corona cases
For comparison: In the same period, 2,194 new
corona cases were
registered
in Germany
- but the Federal Republic has almost ten times as many inhabitants.
Chancellor Kurz will speak in Vienna at 2 p.m. -
follow the most important developments here in the news ticker.
(pm)
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