Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds should have performed here today.

Andre Rieu, Celine Dion or Udo Lindenberg.

The city hall is Austria's largest event center.

If you need a lot of space in Vienna, come here.

This time, however, the concert guests weren't filled with hooting.

Instead, the queue is good.

Not for beer or fluorescent wristbands, but for masks with high FFP2 protection.

A slow formation dance is performed with soldiers, doctors in full-body protective equipment and civilians. The tone of those involved reveals that it's not fun. When asked how long he has been in action, a soldier replies: "Since zero five hundred". Short break. Then he explains: “Since five o'clock in the morning.” A large-scale experiment has begun in Vienna: mass testing of Austrians.