Corona in Austria: Vienna is suddenly unrecognizable - huge irritations because of school children

The Corona situation in Austria is extreme: Some districts exceed a 7-day incidence of 1000, the Covid 19 death rate is increasing.

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• The

  second Corona wave *

  hit

  the Alpine Republic of

  Austria

  with full force.

• Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP)

  announced

  a

  second lockdown

  from Tuesday, November 17th

  due to the high number of

  corona infections

  .

• Some districts in

  Austria

  now have a

  7-day incidence

  over 1000 -

  Covid-19 deaths

  are increasing.

• This

  news ticker

  is updated regularly.

Update from November 17, 10:50 p.m.:

The utilization of the

is being

closely monitored

in the

.

It is the final indicator of the seriousness of the situation.

As the news portal

now reports, there are

almost no free

in the capital

.

Specifically: 148 out of 150 intensive care beds are currently occupied, according to the report.

According to the daily newspaper

, the

capacities in the Danube metropolis could

be increased, but other plannable surgical interventions with intensive medical needs would then have to be postponed.

The number of

in

remains

consistently high.

According to surveys by the

, 58 other people died with or from

on November 17 in the Alpine republic

.

Update from November 17, 6:50 p.m

.: Big irritations around the school children on the first day of the

.

The news portal

reports contradicting reports about the start of voluntary

.

In

for example, there were

reports of partly full schools.

Corona pandemic in Austria: Only 15 percent of school children in regular lessons

However, the Ministry of Education

replied

to a request from the daily

that only 15 percent of the pupils had attended regular classes on site.

“If there were higher numbers of students in some classes, that was the exception.

This can help reduce the number of infections.

The combination of classroom teaching and distance learning works, "it said in a release from the Ministry against

.

The

Ministry of Education

comes to the conclusion after just one day that its model is working.

Why and what this knowledge is based on is not clear from the report.

In the

, children in the Alpine republic should currently stay at home as far as possible and, if necessary, be informed by their parents.

This should also contribute to the fact that the meanwhile very high number of

between

and

between

and

be reduced again.

Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: new findings on corona infections in children

Update from November 17, 5:50 p.m.:

How high is the risk of

?

A comparison from Germany between September and November provides new information about this - and alarms.

In

, before the

there had been bitter arguments about whether

remain open or closed.

Now the Alpine republic is relying on a voluntary model for the parents of young school children.

Austria's top 250 online shops have grown by 14%.

Amazon generates more than 878 million euros.

Study by EHI, Statista in cooperation with the trade association records web shops with the highest turnover.

SME dealers hope for the trend towards regional purchasing 👉 https://t.co/PRwJB3piQe 📊 #ecommerce pic.twitter.com/ee5egisGgj

- Rainer Will (@Will_Rainer) November 17, 2020

Corona pandemic in Austria: appeal from retailers for Christmas

Update from November 17, 5:35 p.m.:

The hard

has been running since this Tuesday

.

Shops have closed, the retail trade had to close due to the exploding

in the Alpine republic.

In short: it is a huge challenge for the

the southern German neighbor.

According to the government, the Christmas business will be saved

by the tough

.

In this situation, Austrian trade has now sent out a real cry for help to the citizens.

Or rather, to the consumers.

“75 percent of sales are lost forever,” explained Rainer Will, Managing Director of the

Trade Association

, in an emotional appeal to the news portal

: “We don't want you to get to your workplace with a quick click on Amazon and Co. of the family member just to save a few cents.

We hope that the Austrians will give jobs. "

His request:

not to order everything online during

, but

to trust

in the time before

and then go to stores for Christmas gifts in person, for example.

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Deserted: the Vienna Prater on November 17th.

© Philip Stotter

Corona pandemic in Austria: Spectacular photos from Vienna about the lockdown

Update from November 17, 5.15 p.m.:

On

the first day of the new

spectacular photos

from

.

Comparing the shooting on Tuesday on a Monday, November 16 shows impressively how the capital city in itself

to the

of their government hold.

Because: Due to the new

, the streets and squares in the Danube metropolis (around 1.9 million inhabitants) were deserted.

Vienna Prater

, the downtown shopping streets, the alleys in

- hardly anyone was out and about.

The day before it looked very different when many Austrians across the country

stocked up

on purchases for the next three weeks of

.

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Vienna: Closed cafes and an empty pedestrian zone.

A new lockdown came into effect on November 17th.

© Ronald Zak / dpa

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November 16 in Vienna: Numerous passers-by are walking on the Mariahilfer Strasse shopping street.

© Roland Schlager / dpa

Corona pandemic in Austria: Infection numbers go down slightly on the first day of the lockdown

Update from November 17, 4:20 p.m.:

On the first day of the new, hard 

 ,

almost 6,000 new infections were registered

in

.

From Monday to Tuesday, the authorities reported a total of 

.

58 people died from

the

in the past 24 hours

.

182 people had to be hospitalized, 46 of them in 

.

Currently, a total of 4,525 people are

in hospital treatment

due to the

, 658 of them in intensive care units. 

Most of the new infections were

reported

from

again today

.

The figures for the individual

at a glance:

• Upper Austria

  : 1230

• Salzburg

  : 826

• Lower Austria

  : 751

• Carinthia

  : 737

• Tyrol

  : 722

• Vienna

  : 700

• Styria

  : 545

• Vorarlberg

  : 295

• Burgenland

  : 178

Corona in Austria: The new lockdown has been in place since midnight

Update from November 17, 9.42 a.m.:

been back in

since midnight

.

Strict

restrictions apply

.

As at the beginning of the pandemic in spring, leaving your own apartment is only allowed for certain reasons - such as shopping, visiting the doctor or even for walking and jogging.

The

is almost completely

.

Only the shops for

such as supermarkets, drug stores, pharmacies and banks are open.

The schools are switching to

for all grades

.

The restrictions are expected to end on December 6th.

The Austrian Chancellor

made it clear that after the

mass tests should play a special role in getting the infection process under control.

The aim is to find infected people as quickly as possible and send them to quarantine.

He discussed this with the Slovak Prime Minister

on Monday

.

In

, millions of people were tested over several weekends.

According to

Health Minister

, such

tests should not only be carried out for certain professional groups.

They could also be organized at regional level.

Today I had an interesting exchange with the Slovak Prime Minister @i_matovic about our planned # COVID19 mass tests.

This is an offer to the Austrian population.

pic.twitter.com/MYgJuKM2hz

- Sebastian Kurz (@sebastiankurz) November 16, 2020

Corona in Austria: Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder with a swipe

Update from November 16, 10 p.m.: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)

has given

a clear swipe towards

after discussions between the German state leaders and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) about the expansion of the

.

When

asked about the possibility of celebrating Christmas with his family despite the

, the Franconian replied: “I'm more of a

.

Because of the high number of cases,

now has much stricter measures.

We have to think carefully about what happens when the ski areas in

reopen

around Christmas

for tourism reasons. "

A painful tip from

in the direction of

and the ski areas, for example in Tyrol and the Salzburg region.

As a reminder: The winter sports and après-ski resort of

had come into

negative focus across Europe as a super spreader

at the beginning of the

.

Several Bavarian and Austrian corona hotspots border each other, for example around the

Land, in the greater

/ Traunstein area or on

.

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Crisis manager in Corona times: Bavaria's Markus Söder (left) and Austria's Sebastian Kurz.

© Sven Hoppe / dpa

Corona pandemic in Austria: Federal President Alexander van der Bellen with an emotional appeal

Update from November 16, 9:30 p.m.:

Before the

in the Alpine republic, the

Austrian

addressed the citizens of his country in an emotional message on social media.

The 76-year-old Viennese told of phone calls that he made throughout the day with

and

from hospitals across the country.

“These conversations made me feel the dramatic situation we are in.

Everyone has confirmed to me that the

situation in the

is extremely tense, but it is still manageable.

Still, "said Van der Bellen and, with a view to the doctors, demanded:" We are restricting our personal contacts so that nobody has to decide who

gets

an

bed and who doesn't.

So who has a chance of survival and who doesn't.

No doctor, nobody should have to make such a decision. "

Van der Bellen addressed the appeal with concrete examples.

"We are going into this

for all of our older people, for all people with previous illnesses," he said and said: "We are doing it for everyone who has an accident, a stroke or a major operation and an

in the next few weeks

need."

So now lockdown again.

Nobody in our country wanted this situation.

Because we all pay a high price.

But remember, we're going into this lockdown together.

And we'll come out again together.

(vdb) pic.twitter.com/LzRbtQRU0P

- A. Van der Bellen (@vanderbellen) November 16, 2020

The Austrians would “support everyone in the caring professions.

The doctors in the intensive care units, the nurses.

All the people in the hospitals who are now doing great things, ”said the Federal President from the

to the whole country.

He promised: "We'll go into this

and we'll get out of it together."

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Corona crisis in Austria: Chancellor Kurz and Health Minister Anschober.

© Helmut Fohringer / APA / dpa

Corona pandemic in Austria: "20 days without family reunions and celebrations"

Update from November 16, 2020, 12.24 p.m.:

The Austrian

appeals to the population regarding the upcoming renewed lockdown.

"

through telephone and Skype instead of visits, 20 days home office wherever possible, 20 days without family reunions and celebrations - and we can thus protect the lives of many people!", It said in a statement.

For Anschober there is the last chance to protect doctors from triage decisions in the consistent implementation of the measures.

"Therefore, the hard lockdown beginning on Tuesday is the only chance to reduce severe overload in the intensive care units, the

" added Anschober.

The lockdown is our only chance to prevent a collapse in the hospitals.

We now know how serious it is that we need each of us.

We will decide the lives of many over the next two and a half weeks.

Information on the Emergency Measures Regulation: https://t.co/20UFHnt6QU

- Rudi Anschober (@rudi_anschober) November 14, 2020

Corona in Austria: Incidence over 1000 - The numbers are exploding in these districts

The reason for the

is the continued

in Austria and signs of an impending overload of the health system.

The second wave also hit the German neighboring country with full force.

The 7-day incidence * in Austria is currently 543.4 - one of the highest values ​​in Europe.

On Sunday,

were reported

nationwide

.

The situation

in

is still particularly dramatic.

almost

here

.

According to the Austrian reporting system AGES, the

in the Rohrbach district is now

.

The

districts of Urfahr-Umgebung (1,081.3) and Ried im Innkreis (1,029.3) have also passed the

in Upper Austria.

But there are also Corona hotspots in Tyrol, Carinthia and Salzburg where the 1000 limit has (almost) been exceeded. 

Corona hotspots in Austria: The numbers are extremely high in these districts

7-day incidence (new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 7 days)

Rohrbach: 1,372 Schwaz: 1,291Urfahr-area: 1,081Ried im Innkreis: 1,029Völkermarkt: 1,006Tamsweg: 927Dornbirn: 948Eferding: 946Perg: 896Steyr-Land: 861Sankt Johann im Pongau: 844Kufstein: 8445ScheennkirchenBregenz: 821Rust: 7398ScheennkirchenBregenz: 821Rust: 7398Scheennkirchen 784Güssing: 778Freistadt: 778

Corona in Austria: Alarming increase in deaths

Alarming is mainly the number of

are within 24 hours in connection with SARS-CoV-2

.

According to oe24.at there are currently 4,178 people in hospital treatment, 599 of them are in intensive care.

According to the information, the number of intensive care patients increased by 30 percent.

Shortly before Corona lockdown in Austria: Last day of shopping - heavy rush to shops expected

Vienna - "For the next two and a half weeks, from next Tuesday up to and including Sunday, December 6th, there will be a second

like in spring": With these words, the

announced

last week that

again

, including shops and services such as hairdressing salons.

Schools are switching to distance learning, leaving the house or apartment is only allowed for specific reasons, as was the case at the beginning of the corona pandemic * in spring.

These include basic needs, work and, specifically, outdoor recreation - but at most with individual “closest” friends or relatives.

Our goal: On December 7th, compulsory schools and retail should be the first to reopen after the lockdown.

One thing is clear: Nobody wants schools, restaurants, shops, etc. to be closed.

But we have to take this step together.

Let's help together!

- Sebastian Kurz (@sebastiankurz) November 14, 2020

Corona in Austria: Shops have to close for three weeks

From tomorrow,

,

.

In view of the impending loss of sales, which will be serious in the run-up to Christmas, many shops are reacting with short-term, sometimes extreme discounts and lightning promotions.

Lockdown in Austria: Extreme rush for shops expected

As reported by oe24.at, due to the impending lockdown on Monday, one expects another run

in Austria

.

According to the report, there was already high activity on the weekend in shopping streets, hardware stores and shopping centers, where

formed.

The Austrian daily derstandard.at reports online on similar scenes.

“People are very aggressive.

The mood is really strange, "a sports shop salesman is quoted by the newspaper.

“It will be even worse on Monday,” another seller expects according to the report.

In Germany, too, further tightening of the corona restrictions could be imminent.

Details are to be announced in a press conference with Angela Merkel and Markus Söder.

List of rubric lists: © Ronald Zak / dpa