Austria's Chancellor Kurz and the German Tourism Commissioner consider après-ski to be possible again in the coming winter season - if necessary, only with vaccinated people.
Most of the skiing holidays in Austria fell through last winter due to the corona pandemic.
Due to the strict rules, piste trips were only possible for locals, while holidaymakers from abroad had to go into quarantine first.
It should look completely different this year: Austria's Chancellor Kurz promised a
safe ski season
in an interview with the Funke media group on Saturday
.
"Safe vacation in Austria": Après-ski should be possible again
70 percent of the over 12-year-olds in Austria are vaccinated, as are the majority of the tourists: "In this respect, nothing stands in the way of a safe holiday in Austria." Should the corona situation in Austria worsen,
only vaccinated
people would
have access to the Keep après-ski bars
, so Kurz. Apart from that, the so-called 3G rule would ensure a safe winter.
The Federal Government's Tourism Commissioner, Thomas Bareiß, agrees with the statements of the Austrian Chancellor: “We want to go on a carefree skiing holiday again,” said the CDU politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
“It is therefore fundamentally correct to
only open certain events to groups of people who are at low risk of infection
.” With increasing infections, there should be no more closings, but guests and hosts still have to be protected.
"In that case, it remains to be checked whether a rapid antigen test is still sufficient," says Bareiß.
A vaccination remains the be-all and end-all.
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SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach was critical of Kurz's proposal to the Funke newspapers: “At this point in time, nobody can reliably predict what the next winter season will look like - not even the Austrian Chancellor.”
From today's perspective, he would rather advise against it. to celebrate under “Ischgl-like conditions”
.
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The popular party and ski resort had become a
Corona hotspot
in the previous year
.
In relation to this, a
damages lawsuit against the state of Austria was
negotiated
in Vienna on Friday
.
The first case concerned a 72-year-old Austrian who died of a corona infection after a stay in Ischgl in March 2020.
“You warned too late, you closed après-ski bars too late, for example, and you closed the whole valley too late for winter sports.
Closing a week earlier would have meant that thousands of people in Ischgl would not have been infected and would not have suffered from Covid-19 as a result, "the Tagesschau quoted Peter Kolba from the consumer protection association at the negotiation.
The judgment should be given in writing.
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