- Title: 129 Austria COVID-19 presser
- Date: 17th March 2020
- Description:Austrian authorities update on latest figures and measures taken by the government with 1332 confirmed coronavirus cases Today again there was a presser of Health Minister Rudolf Anschober and Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer. The Health Minister reported the new number of cases in Austria: there are 1332 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Austria at the moment. Interior Minister Nehammer spoke about the flights to many European countries, which will soon stop or are already stopped in Austria. There are not many police operations, because people in Austria follow the new measures, he said. Nehammer also announced a humanitarian corridor tonight at the Austrian-Hungarian border – hundreds of Bulgarian and Rumanian people are waiting there and want to travel home. This will be allowed from tonight 21:00 local time, but only with special time slots. Shotlist - Location Vienna - Empty podium - Both ministers entering room -SOUNDBITE (German) Rudolf Anschober, Health Minister: "And Austria, as is well known, is not a country that is under a glass-dome. We are also affected. And that's why the figures continue to show growth." -SOUNDBITE (German) Rudolf Anschober, Interior Minister: "Now to the concrete figures in Austria: We now have, at 15 hrs (local) 1332 cases of illnesses in Austria. This is the curve. What does 1332 mean? We were at 1133 cases yesterday. Here you can see the daily graph with the increase in the last few days. " - (shows graph) -SOUNDBITE (German) Rudolf Anschober: "We do protect ourselves and thus protect the other persons too! This is the kind of team spirit we need. It works." -WS Presser -SOUNDBITE (German) Karl Nehammer, Interior Minister: "The measures are having an effect. We have 95 percent fewer pupils in our schools than before the restrictions." -SOUNDBITE (German) Karl Nehammer, Interior Minister: "The police only have had very few interventions where it was necessary to inform people that it is now important, not to gather in groups. That it is important to do only what is really important: to go to work or to buy things of daily use or to help people who need help!" -SOUNDBITE (German) Karl Nehammer, Interior Minister: "We can now say that air-traffic from Spain, France and Switzerland has been suspended overnight, last night . And that air-traffic from the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia and the Netherlands will be suspended during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday." -WS Presser -SOUNDBITE (German) SOUNDBITE Karl Nehammer, Interior Minister: "I am in close contact with the Hungarian minister. There will be a humanitarian corridor today, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Romanian citizens will be able to cross Hungary, and until 12 midnight Bulgarian citizens will be able to cross it." -SOUNDBITE (German) Rudolf Anschober, Health Minister: "If I compare: the number of cases of illness and, on the other hand, the intensity of the measures, then we are certainly number one in Europe." -WS Presser, a few journalists sitting around -End of presser
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:17/03/2020
- Decade: 2020s