Christmas market: Cancellation for the city “not an issue”
Salzburg is currently scratching the 1000 mark with the 7-day incidence: the Ages dashboard on Tuesday showed a value of 982.1. This alarmed the politicians – the country announced on Monday that all honors would be postponed to a later date. The state capital is doing the same, said Mayor Harald Preuner (ÖVP) on Tuesday. In addition, all Christmas parties were canceled a long time ago anyway.
Christmas market: 2-G as default
On the other hand, there is no issue of canceling the traditional Christmas market in Salzburg’s old town. According to Preuner, the city would not have any legal options for this as long as all requirements, i.e. the 2-G rule, are complied with there. “I have a problem with being able to sit together in the inn without a mask and not strolling through the Christmas market,” says Preuner.
Association Christkindlmarkt assumes implementation
The Christkindlmarkt association assumes that the event will be held. 40,000 euros have already been invested in access ribbons alone, said chairman Wolfgang Haider on Tuesday. It is currently budgeted that compliance and monitoring of the Covid requirements will cost half a million euros.
Ski openings are not allowed to take place
The traditional ski opening events like in the years up to 2019 should not take place this year. “I phoned the cable car industry about the ski openings and invited them to think about it. It seems that there will be no openings, ”says Governor Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP).
The country and city have already canceled their Christmas celebrations. Private celebrations, on the other hand, take place – many hosts are already preparing for it. My employees are all vaccinated voluntarily, and we also do PCR tests twice a week in-house. I want to make sure that I have a safe restaurant “, describes the Salzburg restaurateur Hannes Bachmann.
Christmas market: Cancellation for the city “not an issue”
With the increasing CoV numbers, the state and the city are postponing their events to a later date. The cancellation of the Salzburg Christmas market is not an issue for Mayor Preuner (ÖVP).
Appeal to other bodies as well
In order to prevent the corona virus from spreading further, the country also asked institutions such as the Chamber of Labor, the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Agriculture, all municipalities and the Federation of Industrialists to cancel their events.