Austrian media: stop to winter tourism in Austria during the Christmas period
Total lockdown in Austria.
Kurz: the fight against the coronavirus only works like this
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02 December 2020The police will monitor the influx of people into shopping centers.
This was decided by the Minister of the Interior, Karl Nehammer.
Objective: "Avoid days of chaos" during Christmas shopping.
In this month a mass test will be done in all laender and another at the end of the holidays.
Health Minister Rudolf Anschober explained that in this way we should have more precise information on the progress of the virus because, he stressed, "the holiday season is very critical"
For those who return from abroad
Strict rules even for those returning from a holiday abroad.
The quarantine obligation is triggered.
It will no longer be enough, as now, to have done a negative swab within the last 72 hours.
There will be exceptions for cross-border commuters and business trips, but there will be no "New Year's Eve in Prague" or "visiting relatives in the Balkans".
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz recalled that a third of the infections of the second wave were "imported".