Category: Austrian News

Overview of the new regulations: Students will return to classrooms after the semester break (in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, this is February 8). Elementary schools will switch entirely to face-to-face classes; in lower and upper grades, a shift system (Monday + Tuesday; Wednesday + Thursday, Friday Home Schooling) will be introduced. In addition: ➤ Students must take mandatory nasal tests every week (twice a week in elementary schools); these take place at school. If they do not want to take this, they must stay in distance learning. ➤ Teachers…

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From February 8 will be relaxed, details on penalties and border rules will be presented tomorrow, Tuesday. What is already clear is that schools, retailers, hairdressers and museums will open SCHOOLIn elementary schools, classes will return to face-to-face instruction. Testing will be twice a week, and on-site testing. For older students, there will be a shift class in two groups, with two days blocked in each. On the first day, there is a Corona test. If parents refuse the test for their children, they must remain in Distance Learning. In…

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The lockdown will be relaxed. This was decided by the government in a conference with state governors on Monday. Accordingly, schools will offer face-to-face classes again after the semester break and commerce will open on Feb. 8. All this is combined with various protective measures. In elementary schools, classes are not even divided, so there are daily face-to-face classes. In higher grades, there are shift operations. Testing takes place twice a week. Retailers reopen, but fewer customers can enter the stores because 20 square meters must be available per person.…

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Another test center will be opened in Vienna.A coronavirus testing center is now being set up at Schönbrunn Palace. Two sites for rapid antigen testing will be available there starting Thursday. A coronavirus testing center is now also being set up at Schönbrunn Palace. Starting next Thursday, two locations for rapid antigen tests will be available there. This was reported by APA on Monday and published in vienna.at. APA reports that Vienna City Councillor for Health Peter Hacker announced that a “walk-in” with three test lines will be installed at…

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The number of new infections in Austria within 24 hours is still more than 1100. Since Sunday, 1124 new cases have been reported across Austria. The seven-day average was thus 1400 new infections daily – twice the number issued as a target for the end of the hard lockdown. 13,997 people were confirmed actively infected on Monday. The seven-day incidence per 100,000 population was 110.1 – just as more than double the original target. Here, too, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Green Party) had repeatedly stressed that the aim was to…

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Today, Monday, the government wants to announce whether Austria will unlock, when and how. In advance, there are conferences with experts, opposition and provincial leaders. The pressure is massive, not only because on Sunday again thousands took to the streets. Retailers want to open, schools too, but experts warn. Yesterday, the chancellor, vice chancellor and health ministers consulted almost non-stop. What happens today: As two weeks ago, the almost identical group of experts will meet and give the government their assessment of the situation. It will be rather gloomy. The…

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Around 10,000 demonstrators took part in the actually prohibited Corona demonstrations in downtown Vienna on Sunday. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and Vienna’s police chief Gerhard Pürstl have drawn a first balance in the evening. According to the report, ten people were arrested, four police officers were injured and around 800 charges were filed for violations of Covid 19 regulations. A total of two officers fell, two were injured by “extraneous force.” “This operation was anything but a walk in the park for the police officers,” Nehammer said. It wasn’t…

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Still no easing of the Corona situation in Austria. From Saturday to Sunday, 1,190 new cases were recorded across Austria, plus 18 deaths were reported, the Interior and Health Ministries reported on Sunday. The seven-day average is thus 1,383 cases added daily. Since the pandemic began, 7,721 people have died from or with Covid-19. Austria-wide, there have been 14,180 confirmed active cases. In total, 9,684 people have become infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the past week. The seven-day incidence – the number of new infections per 100,000 population in a seven-day…

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Exactly five weeks since the start of the third hard lockdown, new infection numbers in Austria remain very high. Exactly 1478 new infection cases have been reported since Friday, the Interior and Health Ministries reported Saturday. Thus, the seven-day average is 1385 cases added daily. Another 45 Covid-19 deaths have also been reported since Friday, bringing the total to 7703 people who have died from or with Covid-19 since the pandemic began. For the first time since mid-October, the number of new infections within seven days is below 10,000. In…

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