Since April 14, the Austrians have found the beginning of a “life before” the coronavirus. Mask pressed against the face, they can again go to shops, the hairdresser and, from next Friday, in bars or restaurants. Graduates returned to class on Monday to prepare a lighter version of their exam. The rest of the schoolchildren will resume, by age, between mid-May and early June.
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Epidemiological statistics have not rebounded. They have never been very high since the appearance of the first case in late February. More to the east, the observation is the same: from Poland to Bulgaria, the countries of central Europe seem to have controlled the spread of the virus among their population. Some, like Austria, have started a schedule of deconfinement.
"In this region, the disease did not arrive and did not spread in the same way as in southern Europe," explains Thomas Czypionka, researcher specializing in public health.
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