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Irena, passer-by in Vienna:
"I've really had enough, yes."
Ahmed, passer-by in Vienna:
"It's just a shame from the point of view of the people who run the catering trade."
Sascha, passer-by in Vienna:
"It's like a luxury prison."
The pictures are known - so is the frustration.
Austria is back in lockdown for the fourth time.
Schools will remain open for the time being, but the catering is closed again, inner cities are very sparsely visited and shopping is prohibited.
Only shops that are important for basic services stay open - such as supermarkets, drugstores, pharmacies.
So the old signs and the more creative sales models are dug out again.
The hope that the worst part of the pandemic was over has long since fizzled out.
Irena, passer-by in Vienna:
»I'm really tired from these lockdowns.
I've really had enough, yes.
I don't know what else to say. "
Sascha, passer-by in Vienna:
"For me personally, it's not going so well, especially psychologically."
Reporter:
"Really?"
Sascha, passer-by in Vienna:
"Yes, of course.
How can you sit and do nothing?
It's not easy. "
Ahmed, passer-by, in Vienna:
»I think it's a shame that we have a lockdown again, but it's just part of it.
We have increasing numbers of infected people again. "
The nationwide incidence is currently over 1000, and the trend is rapidly increasing.
And only around 65 percent of the population are twice?
vaccinated, so the proportion is even smaller than in Germany.
The government decided not only for strict restrictions, but also for mandatory vaccination from February 2022.
For now, however, many are concerned with the lockdown.
Because this is linked to economic losses and existential fears.
Irena, passer-by in Vienna:
»For my husband, for example, professionally, it is an absolute disaster, he is self-employed in tourism.
From one day to the next it was suddenly said that everything was going to be locked again.
There is one cancellation after the other. "
Alexander Pribil in Salzburg also caught the sudden restrictions off guard.
He owns a souvenir shop.
Alexander Pribil, souvenir shop owner:
»Of course we thought that winter would be normal.
Now I have the camp full of natural and today we have the first day of the lockdown and no people are there overnight. "
The shopkeeper can even roughly estimate the damage.
Alexander Pribil, souvenir shop owner:
"I estimate the next three or four weeks with a drop in sales of 70 to 80 percent."
What is currently also canceled: the Christmas markets.
The booths are already there, but they stay closed - for the time being.
According to the government, the lockdown should end again by December 13th at the latest - the vague hope of a somewhat normal winter season remains.
Nobody really knows how things will really go in the next few months.
You already know that.