At all hotels and restaurants, visitors must show proof that they have been vaccinated, tested or cured. And if the number of infections increases again, the rules will be tightened. Then only vaccinated winter sports enthusiasts will be allowed to go après-ski, Kurz announced.
Former seat of fire
According to the chancellor, 70 percent of Austrians over the age of 12 have been vaccinated against corona, and this also applies to the majority of tourists. “In that regard, nothing stands in the way of a safe holiday in Austria,” he said in an interview with the newspapers of the German media group Funke.
The ski and party destination Ischgl in Tyrol, also popular with the Dutch, was a hotbed of the spread of the corona virus in Europe last March. Holidaymakers left en masse and took the virus with them to their own country.
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Lawsuit
Yesterday a lawsuit started in Austria about the state of affairs in Ischgl. The authorities are accused of not having acted adequately. The relatives of a deceased corona patient demand compensation of 100,000 euros from the national government.
The case is the harbinger of a much bigger case that the Austrian consumer organization VSV wants to file on behalf of 6000 people from 45 countries, who were on winter sports in Ischgl at the time. Among them are almost 800 Dutch people, such as 47-year-old Jorrit Weerman, who became critically ill after his skiing holiday.
“I really had to flee from Sankt Anton. That Friday when everything was locked, it seemed like a war zone. People ran with suitcases down the street. Skis were just thrown in at the rental. We managed to escape the area by taxi and flew back to Amsterdam via Munich. After three or four days I became ill,” Weerman tells RTL Nieuws. Read more about it here:
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