105 AT Kurz Interview

Record ID: 462628
  • Title: 105 AT Kurz Interview
  • Date: 15th March 2020
  • Description:Austrian Chancellor says people can leave only for work, food and help Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday that there should be only three reasons for people to leave home: essential work, essential purchases such as food, and helping other people. He said that people will be able to go out “only alone or with the people with whom (they) live in their apartment". Kurz’s comments came shortly after a special session of the National Council on measures to further restrict freedom of movement in public spaces. Playgrounds and sports fields are closed. Local restaurants are also no longer allowed to open from Tuesday. The entry requirements are also being tightened. No more people are allowed to enter Austria from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Russia. However, Kurz again emphasized that security of supply was still guaranteed. Shops in the grocery trade remained open, as did drugstores, tobacco shops and pharmacies. Civil servants are also to be mobilized to strengthen the medical and nursing sector. Those who are currently doing their community service will be extended. Civil servants from the past five years have also been recruited. The position of the Federal Army is currently suspended. But the militia should help to overcome the crisis. Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (from Greens) also found drastic words. He called on people not to meet in larger or smaller groups. And he warned: "We will do everything we can to prevent it if we cannot do it voluntarily." Organizations that did not adhere to this could “say goodbye” to all grants, said Kogler. In doing so, he made sports clubs in particular obliged to stop all types of training. Kogler also appealed to employers: "Everyone should stay at home away from the most necessary production." The Vice Chancellor referred to the four billion Euro package, which the government is planing in a first step of assistance. It is important that the money stays in the economic cycle, says Kogler. The Austrian province of Tyrol, which is particularly badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, is ordering a curfew. Governor Günther Platter announced today a "traffic restriction". With a few exceptions, people are no longer allowed to leave their homes. The number of people demonstrably infected with the new corona virus has continued to increase in Austria from yesterday to today. As of 8:00 a.m., the Ministry of Health reported 800 cases, and 8,167 suspected cases were tested. People with Covid-19. Status as of 15.03.2020, 8 a.m., Distribution by federal state: - Most cases continue to exist in Tyrol (245) - Followed by Upper Austria (158) - Lower Austria (112) - Vienna (108) - Styria (83) - Salzburg (39) - Vorarlberg (39) - Burgenland (10) - and Carinthia (6). One person has died so far, six are still considered to have recovered. Shotlist - MS Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at the left, ORF journalist at the right - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria: "Yes look, we as the federal government have already announced in the last few days that we will do everything step by step, that we will bring Austria down to emergency operation by Monday morning at the latest, which means only the minimum necessary social contacts. We have already prepared a lot of regulations in the last few days, the closure of the schools today, except where there are urgent childcare needs, we have passed the law in Parliament that needs to be closed to all bars so that all business in the shops are closed, with the exception of the supermarkets, of course, and what's more is what I announced last night, namely, exit restrictions, people in Austria have to stay at home. They stay at home with the exception that they can of course go to work, of course they can do their errands, of course they can go out to support other people who need help and of course they can go out to get their feet cool, run in the forest, but because of the restriction, alone, or with people with whom you live and live, not with other people. They are necessary, I am fully aware that this is a restriction for the Austrian population, I am aware that this will be a difficult day, that it will be drastic, it is necessary to protect the health of Austrians. It is especially necessary to protect the particularly vulnerable group of older people. 01:50 - SOUNDBITE (German) ORF journalist Georg Ransmayr: "We heard that the police will do controls?" - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria: "The police will be on patrol already today, in parks, on playgrounds, and tell them that this is not good, to be together in groups, that you have a high risk to get infected, and that, at the end of the day, it is the trigger that parents or grandparents will die. " 02:16 - SOUNDBITE (German) ORF journalist Georg Ransmayr: "Will the police force interrogate the people?" - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria: "Tomorrow , it is by law, sports venues or playgrounds will be closed, this is necessary , to save lives, to save the Austrians, but , first, to look at the elder ones, who are really in danger because of the virus.”
  • Collection: ORF
  • Genre:News
  • Producer:ORF
  • Transmission Date:15/03/2020
  • Decade: 2020s
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