The newly appointed Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer said that what is important is not the end of the restrictions, but how they will be implemented.
During his first press conference since taking office on Monday, the president referred to gastronomy, hotel services and other sectors, in which the “adequate security measures” must be observed.
Austria was in November one of the European countries hardest hit by the fourth outbreak of the pandemic, with an incidence of more than a thousand cases in seven days per 100,000 inhabitants.
Due to this situation, it was the first nation of the so-called old continent to decree a new general confinement of three weeks for the entire population.
The intensive care units here today show an occupancy level equivalent to one third of the total capacity.
In this scenario and a few weeks before the beginning of the Christmas holidays, the tourism sector, one of the most important in the country, calls for an early opening, to save the winter season.
Hundreds of thousands of travelers arrive by this date in the Austrian Alps each year from Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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