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Corona double blow: Two regions of Austria announce a new lockdown for everyone - schools are closed too

2021-11-18T15:58:43.036Z


Austria is preparing to enter a lockdown again. The political plan for certain regions also affects vaccinated people.


Austria is preparing to enter a lockdown again.

The political plan for certain regions also affects vaccinated people.

Update from November 18, 4:45 p.m.:

As Salzburg Governor Wilfried Haslauer emphasizes, according to experts, a lockdown would have to take at least three to four weeks to take effect.

After four weeks for the R-value - i.e. the number of reproductions - decrease, vaccinations could do the rest.

The ÖVP politician wants to promote immunization with the help of monetary incentives.

In Salzburg only supermarkets, drugstores and pharmacies are open from Monday. The rest of the trade and gastronomy


have to close. People are only allowed to leave their homes for urgent errands, to exercise outdoors, to commute to work or for medical reasons. "We have to offer a perspective: This is the chance to open before Christmas," explained Haslauer, who would like to end the lockdown by Christmas if possible.

Update from November 18, 4 p.m .:

Tyrol should also think about a hard lockdown, which also affects vaccinated people. The

oe24

reports with

reference to Governor

Günther Platter. The same applies to Carinthia and Vorarlberg. Before this step, however, the representatives of trade and tourism in the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce (WKV) warned, who emphasized in a message: "A new lockdown for everyone would have fatal consequences."

Update from November 18, 1.40 p.m.:

In Salzburg, schools are also supposed to close again for the time being.

In the “Mittagsjournal” of

Ö1

, Governor Wilfried Haslauer emphasized that he saw “no other option”.

The step is necessary because the many new infections among the younger ones also put their parents at risk.

Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) was also skeptical on the station, but Haslauer could order the school closings himself.

According to the

oe24

, however, no childcare

offers

would then be possible at schools.

Two Austrian federal states are going into lockdown for everyone

First report from November 18:

Munich - The regions of Austria most affected by the corona pandemic want to impose a lockdown on the general population.

The Prime Ministers of Salzburg and Upper Austria announced this on Thursday.

Details should be announced later in the day.

Thomas Stelzer, Governor of Upper Austria, said in the state parliament: "If there is no nationwide lockdown, Upper Austria and Salzburg will go into lockdown from next week." It is now a matter of "protecting health, protecting life," added the ÖVP politicians, according to

oe24

: "We have very, very little leeway." The lockdown should

last for

several weeks.

"The enormous development of numbers leaves us with no alternative to lockdown"

Party friend Wilfried Haslauer, Governor of Salzburg, told the Austrian press agency APA: “Today we have another enormous development in numbers.

We no longer see an alternative to a lockdown beginning next week. "

The ÖVP politician said: “I fought to prevent us from going into a lockdown.

With these numbers, however, an overload of the hospitals is foreseeable. ”Additional measures by the federal government and the state of Salzburg would not take effect so quickly:“ We also need time for the well-running vaccinations to take effect. ”

Further nationwide measures to lockdown those who have been vaccinated are to be discussed

Whether further nationwide measures will be taken in addition to the existing lockdown for unvaccinated people throughout Austria will be decided in talks between the federal and state governments on Friday.

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Austria is pulling the emergency brake again: In certain regions, the lockdown is to return for everyone.

© Gert Eggenberger / dpa

On Thursday, the number of new infections within 24 hours in Austria reached a record of 15,145.

The


seven-day incidence was 989.

(dpa, mg)

List of rubric lists: © Gert Eggenberger / dpa

Source: merkur

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