Disagreeable news before Halloween: what numerous Austrians dreaded and the media anticipated has now been authoritatively declared. Beginning on Tuesday, November 3, new limitations will happen in Austria. Residents won’t be permitted to leave their private living space between 20:00 and 6:00, yet exemptions will apply. All cafés, bars and amusement settings will be shut, yet shops will stay open. Bars and night clubs won’t be open, and cafés are permitted to plan takeaway food, however just until 20:00. Lodgings, social and sports offices are additionally being shut trying to contain the second flood of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alongside inns, visitor houses will be totally shut to sightseers, and lodgings are permitted to acknowledge business explorers (with various limitations). Organizations influenced by the isolate ought to get pay – up to 80% of the lost income, nonetheless, this will be extremely hard to do. Wellness focuses, spas, indoor pools, exhibition halls, films, and zoos are shut to people in general.
“In the event that we don’t act now, there won’t be any spots left in concentrated consideration,” said Sebastian Kurz. A portion of these limitations will stay in actuality until November 12, 2020, and the greater part of the measures will stay basically until November 30. Police controls in private homes ought to stay prohibited, however Austria’s Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, has declared “huge limitations” that are direly expected to abstain from over-burdening the wellbeing framework. Schools (Junior classes) and kindergartens will stay open – for the present.
“From Tuesday until the finish of November, a subsequent isolate is being presented,” Sebastian Kurz said at a question and answer session in Vienna. He has recently said that he needs to “do all that conceivable to stay away from additional limitations” after the spring isolate, which dove the economy into downturn. In any case, notwithstanding an outstanding expansion in the quantity of cases, it has needed to deal with the requirement for new measures to restrict the spread of the infection.
In Austria, which generally effectively endure the principal wave of Covid, a dangerous expansion in the quantity of cases has been recorded lately. The nation of 8.8 million individuals as of now has in excess of 5,000 instances of Covid consistently, up from 1,000 cases toward the start of October. As of October 31, there were 36,590 dynamic instances of Covid in Austria. There are an ever increasing number of patients in clinics who need assistance in concentrated consideration.
All physical games (football, hockey, wrestling, and so on) are precluded, and sports offices are shut to Amateur competitors. Proficient competitors and their mentors, in any case, can visit sports offices, train, and partake in global rivalries.
In Austria, the following Alpine skiing world Cup functions are planned – ladies’ and men’s equal races are booked to happen on November 13 and 14 in Lech/Zurs. A month prior, it was realized that the opposition will be held without a group of people. It isn’t yet certain whether this phase of the world Cup will be permitted because of the new limitations. Yet, given the solid impact of the Austrian ski Union and the prominence of skiing in Austria, in all likelihood the opposition will in any case occur.
Up until this point, none of the ski resorts has reported a suspension of work, yet the mass opening of the period in Austria has not yet started, just the icy mass retreats are working. As indicated by the measures taken, it is permitted to utilize public vehicle (which in Austria likewise incorporates lifts). Nonetheless, the far and wide conclusion of inns may prompt an irritation of the emergency in the travel industry.
Right now, there are icy mass hotels in Austria: Selden, Hintertux, Stubai, Pitztal, Kitzsteinhorn (Kaprun), Kaunertal, Dachstein and Melltal. On November 14, winter planned to open Kitzbuhel, presently there is one track running there. On November 19, the Obergurgl/Hochgurgl is planned to open.
In France, after the presentation of isolate, all open hotels shut the following day, and those opening early delayed the initial date.
Prior, France and Germany declared the presentation of a severe isolate.
