Coronavirus pandemic: In Austria, the corona lockdown is being struggled with.
In Tyrol, a church service caused a stir because of an infected person.
The news ticker for the Alpine republic.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria
: The number of Covid 19 cases remains high around Easter.
In Tyrol, a church service in the Zillertal caused a sensation because of an infected person (
see first report from April 5
).
This
news ticker on the Corona crisis * in the Alpine republic
is updated regularly.
Update from April 5, 10:30 p.m.:
The vaccinations in Austria are only making slow progress.
This complicates the prospect of loosening and openings.
Instead, there is a tough lockdown in the east of the Alpine republic, in the west, for example, the catering and hotel industries have long since closed.
An industry-oriented think tank has now calculated what this means for the economy.
The
Kronen Zeitung
reports on this
.
According to the “Agenda Austria” think tank, it will take another seven to eleven weeks before Austria is at the vaccination level of Israel, which is roughly the same size.
Both countries have around 8.9 million inhabitants, but the Israelis are much further with their vaccination campaign, which is why the federal government in Vienna recently also sought talks with Tel Aviv for learning effects.
As the think tank also calculates, the loss of added value in this period is between five and 14 billion euros.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: dispute over Easter rest in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland
Update from April 5, 6.15 p.m
.: The coronavirus situation in Austria is deadlocked.
This applies not only to the Covid 19 case numbers, but in particular to the corona policy of the Federal Government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP).
For days there has been some harsh criticism from the opposition SPÖ.
At the center of the heated discussions: In the east of the Alpine republic, specifically in the federal states of Lower Austria, Vienna and Burgenland, a so-called Easter rest period will apply until April 11th.
A lockdown in the cloak of the Easter holidays.
The eastern federal states are upset that the lockdown only applies to them, and the SPÖ would like to send the whole country into a short but strict lockdown.
Because: The number of new corona infections remains high.
On this Easter Monday, 2,217 newly registered cases were added, 33 further fatalities were counted who died of or with Covid-19.
The federal government made up of the ÖVP and the Greens will now discuss how to proceed tomorrow, Tuesday.
Austrian media do not expect any new resolutions in consistent reports, but at most an assessment of the situation.
Symbolic.
This is stuck.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: Tyrol is back in focus in the corona crisis
First report from April 5th:
Munich / Vienna / Zillertal - Tyrol.
In the coronavirus pandemic *, the western federal state of Austria keeps making headlines.
So also around Easter in the Corona crisis *.
Excitement this time: An Easter fair in the picturesque Zillertal.
On Holy Saturday in Zell am Ziller, a person infected with Corona * is said to have been among the guests of the service.
The Austrian media report unanimously.
In the meantime the state of Tyrol has intervened.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: excitement about Easter fair in Tyrol
According to official requests, all worshipers should pay attention to their state of health.
And whether you have any Covid-19 symptoms *.
In the event of symptoms such as a sore throat, fever and / or shortness of breath, the hotline 1450 should be called immediately, it said.
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Tyrol came into focus in March 2020 because there had been the first large superspreader corona outbreak in the tourist resort of Ischgl.
At the turn of the year, Germany and Bavaria declared their southern neighbors a virus variant area because the mutant B.1.1.7 spread rapidly.
Most recently there were reports of the spread of the mutated Corona variant E484K in North Tyrol * - near Kufstein directly on the border with Germany.
Coronavirus pandemic in Austria: concerns about corona mutant E484K on the border with Bavaria
Zell am Ziller in the Zillertal is around 45 kilometers south of the Bavarian-Austrian border.
Tyrol simply does not come to rest, like many other regions in these adverse times.
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