Austria: New rules after the end of the lockdown – curfew, hotels and après-ski
As announced, Austria will exit the partial lockdown on December 12th. Under what conditions has now become known.
Update from December 8th, 2:20 p.m .: The lockdown in Austria caused a sensation, it will end on the night of next Sunday. However, only for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered. The federal government and the states decided on Wednesday. Unvaccinated & continue to observe the exit restrictions. Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
So an FFP2 mask is mandatory indoors. The trade and hairdressers nationwide are allowed to reopen on December 13th. The gastronomy must observe a curfew of 11 p.m. According to Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein, the night gastronomy and après-ski bars will remain closed. The federal states are free to make stronger rules, it said.
This creates a regional patchwork of measures. The City of Vienna has already announced that restaurants and hotels will not be able to receive guests again until a week later. According to the Austrian news agency APA, the federal states of Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Burgenland want to open large areas. The federal state of Upper Austria will remain completely in lockdown until December 17th. In the federal state of Salzburg, hotels and restaurants are to open on December 17th.
The 20-day lockdown since November 22nd was a consequence of the massive fourth corona wave. The seven-day incidence at the start of the measure was 1,100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week. In the meantime it is present at around 530.
Austria: New rules after lockdown end – first details about curfew and hotels leaked
Original notification dated December 8, 2021: Vienna – ends in a few days Austria* the Blocking *. This Wednesday (December 8th) the federal and state governments will discuss the modalities. The new Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) had already emphasized the day before that death is decisive. The Austrian news portals want the first details from the current negotiations oe24.at and heute.at have experienced.
According to the report, the following is planned in the neighboring country:
- Retail, body-hugging service providers and hotels are allowed to open
- Gastronomy as well – but with a curfew at 11 p.m.
- Night gastronomy and après-ski bars should remain closed
- Cultural organizers can receive up to 1000 guests, provided there are assigned seats
- For common sport (inside and outside) gold-plated “2G” (vaccinated or recovered)
- FFP2 mask compulsory gold-plated in closed rooms (except for sports)
- “3G” gold-plated in the workplace (vaccinated, recovered or tested)
Lockdown end in Austria – but exit restrictions for unvaccinated people continue
Nehammer said on Tuesday that the exit restrictions for all vaccinated and convalescents should be over on December 13, as planned. However, the conditions under which the shops are likely to reopen must still be determined.
The government wants to proceed cautiously; there will probably be a regionally different approach. Vienna has already signaled that the hotels and restaurants dying in the federal capital will not be allowed to reopen until December 20. For unvaccinated people, the lockdown continues to apply nationwide *.
On November 22nd, among other things, large parts of the trade were closed. Exit restrictions applied to people. Thanks to the reduction in social contacts has died 7-day incidence * halved to 535. The utilization of the clinics is still high Covid *– Sick. (frs with material from dpa and AFP) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA