Today is the first day in all of Austria and the capital is already deserted as citizens can only move around to get basic goods, to visit a doctor and to play sports.
The new restrictive measures will last for twenty days, while the vaccination becomes mandatory from February 1.
“We are in shock with the lockdown as most people believe that it will last both January and February or they will open for shopping and then close again,” said Lefteris Dermitzakis, a Greek owner of the Ellas restaurant in Austria. SKAI and Sia Kosioni main news bulletin.
As he explained, other expectations had been created in relation to the evolution of the corona and then they landed in a different reality. In particular, he said that politicians had said that there would be no lockdown and suddenly decided to lockout after the outbreak of the pandemic, especially in Upper Austria.
He says residents are outraged. “We see politicians making them salads,” he said.
Asked about the consistency of the measures, Mr. Dermitzakis stressed that the elderly were careful while the youth was not so much.
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