The village of Sankt Corona am Wechsel, in Austria, first smiled of its homonymy with the Covid-19. But the town is now considering revising its tourism marketing embodied by a small mascot whose name reminds too much of the coronavirus. "At first, we had fun seeing a virus named after the village appear, but the jokes have stopped since the epidemic became very serious," said Monday Michael Gruber, the mayor of this low mountain resort located an hour's drive south of Vienna.
"Probably we will have to find a new name for the little ant that welcomes tourists," says the city councilor. The insect called "Corona", dressed in local fashion, is currently printed on information media for visitors.
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In the Germanic world, other villages and chapels bear the name of St. Corona, a Christian martyr celebrated by Catholics having nothing to do with the new coronavirus. Located at the foot of Mount Kampstein, 844 meters above sea level, the resort of less than 400 inhabitants lives mainly from green tourism.
Containment measures have been in force for a week in Austria, where movement is drastically limited. "I am optimistic, when the crisis is over, people will probably go less far than before to spend more time in places near them," says Michael Gruber. Austria recorded on Monday 3,611 officially declared cases of patients with the new coronavirus, which killed 16 people for a population of 8.8 million.
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