Lockdown until January 24: Government fails with plan for free testing After the opposition’s “no” vote, the ÖVP is now fuming. But the coalition was unable to dispel medical and legal doubts about its strategy. Perhaps the Turquoise-Green coalition is not so unhappy about having to call off its...
Austrian Newspaper Der Standard reported that: British fishermen feel betrayed by post-Brexit deal The agreement brings cuts for British and EU fishermen. Now resentment is spreading among British fishermen British fishermen feel betrayed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. “Boris Johnson promised us the rights to all the...
Looks like a dog house, as expensive as a villa! a shack costs €755,000 The Austrian lakes have always commanded a high price and the residents of St. Gilgen in Salzburgland have already experienced a lot of craziness when it comes to the “silly prices” for bathing places and...
There will be no skiing holidays in Austria, not this year. The Christmas holidays will not be able to be spent on the slopes, neither by Austrians nor by foreign guests. The cable cars will start operating, but the gastronomy and hotel industry will remain closed, and the corona-related...
Most new cases are in Vienna, Upper and Lower Austria.So far there have been 19,154 positive test results in Austria. As of today (July 15, 2020, 9:30 a.m.), 710 people across Austria have died from the effects of the Corona virus and 17,175 have recovered. Currently, 96 people are...
Flights from listed countries are no longer allowed to land in Austria Landings of regular flights from the entire Western Balkans are prohibited in Austria as from Thursday 16th July.In order to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Austria is relying even more on landing bans for aircraft from so-called “SARS-CoV-2...
Perhaps the UK can take some notes from the Viennese experience of eat out vouchers to help re-build the hospitality sector. Mostly good experiences have been related by Viennese restaurateurs accepting the vouchers. Restaurants report only a few cases of abuse and complications. An inn in Vienna-Donaustadt, the gastro...
Salvini wants to close border with Austria Salvinis Lega harshly criticizes the Austrian government: “There is no point in forcing Italians to lockdown for almost three months if we now allow the virus to be imported from other countries.” Italy’s oppositional Lega accuses the government in Rome of undertaking...
Dramatic increase: more than 100 new infections for the first time.107 new infections in 24 hours.After a long time, the number of new infections with the coronavirus in Austria rose to over 100 on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the lion’s share of 107 diseases (as...
Almost half the people living in an Austrian ski resort that was a major centre of the European coronavirus outbreak now have immunity, according to a new study released on Thursday. Scientists from Innsbruck Medical University found antibodies to the virus in 42.4 per cent of people in Ischgl....