Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) has announced major easing for May.
Now he explained that the "vaccination turbo" has started.
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Despite the continued high Corona numbers *, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) announces opening steps for May.
Vienna will end the east lockdown * after just under four weeks in the coming week.
The corona vaccinations * in the Alpine republic should continue to pick up speed.
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Vienna - The current corona situation in Austria remains tense.
The country continues to struggle with high numbers of infections.
From Monday to Tuesday, 1625 new corona cases * and 28 new deaths were reported in the Alpine republic.
According to data from the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the nationwide 7-day incidence is currently 170.2 - in Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported an incidence value of 167.6 on Tuesday morning.
Corona in Austria: Kurz announces openings from mid-May
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) * announced last Friday (April 23), however, opening steps from May 19.
From then on, gastronomy, tourism, sport and events, for example in the cultural sector, will be possible again, announced Kurz.
Face-to-face teaching in schools is to start across Austria from May 17th.
In Vienna, on May 3, the previously applicable east lockdown will also be ended.
This was announced by Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) after meetings with doctors and experts on Tuesday (April 27).
"It got better.
We succeeded in reducing the numbers through our measures, ”said Ludwig at a press conference.
Corona in Austria: Vienna announces the end of lockdown from next week
The three federal states of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, as the eastern region, jointly imposed an "Easter lockdown" * on April 1st and then extended it to April 18th. Vienna and Lower Austria then extended it again until May 2nd, with schools opening on April 26th. Burgenland, on the other hand, already opened openings for retailers and body-friendly service providers on April 19.
Starting next Monday, retailers and service providers close to the body should also be allowed to open up under “strict security precautions” in Vienna, according to Ludwig.
Museums and zoos will also open from May 3rd, and the mask requirement in public places should also end.
The gastronomy remains closed for the time being.
Vienna's mayor announced that they wanted to act carefully and prudently.
The situation in the intensive care units is "the most important thing" for him, Ludwig clarified.
If the numbers rise again, you have to reset opening steps.
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Austria's Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (r.) And Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (l.) Announce the "Impfturbo".
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Corona in Austria: Brief gives hope for normality - "The vaccination turbo has started"
In Austria, there should also be progress in terms of corona vaccination * in the coming weeks and months. On the sidelines of a meeting on the occasion of the early delivery of around one million doses of the vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer *, Chancellor Kurz said on Tuesday: "The vaccination turbo has started." In May, around 60,000 daily corona vaccinations would be possible, he announced. This number would increase again in June. They are currently on the "very, very good way" to vaccinate all those willing to vaccinate in the Alpine republic by the end of June. "This is the way to normality," said Kurz.
Austria's * Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) also gave a positive outlook.
According to this, 33 percent of all people in the country who are older than 16 years could be vaccinated by the end of April.
It could be 50 percent by the end of May and 75 percent by the end of June, according to the forecast.
Mückstein made an appeal to the Austrian population: "Please get vaccinated." That is the only way back to "our old life", said the Minister of Health.
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