- Title: 222 AT COVID-19 Easter weekend
- Date: 12th April 2020
- Description:Despite of sunny and warm weather at Easter Austrians obey exit restrictions Today was national holiday in Austria. It is Easter weekend and the weather in Austria was wonderful sunny with early summer temperatures. Under normal conditions most of the people would enjoy an Easter trip with their families. Most of the people only do a trip to the next park area to play with their children in the sun or to ride their bicycle. The Tyrolean seem more numerous to spend time in green areas than the people in the very East of Austria in Burgenland, but still respecting the COVID-19 rules concerning distance and . The Lake Neusiedlersee in Burgenland is a swimming, wind surfing, biking and walking paradise, including good food and wine options - due to the proximity to Vienna every year also interesting for a one day Easter trip for Viennese. But not in 2020. Very few people are walking and biking through the spring landscape between the wine yards. Shotlist Audio on 3+4 Location: Innsbruck, Tyrol, 13 APRIL 2020 - people walking in a park - little girl on pedal scooter - boys playing soccer - Soundbite (German) Christian Viehweider, spokesperson police Tyrol: “Generally seen we can see that the number of police reports has decreased by half. During the Easter weekend we had to pronounce some 150 reports, compared to the weekend before these are two thirds less. The colleagues have now the possibility to issue organisational mandates e.g. for shopping without mask or for falling below the minimum distance. Here we prefer to dialogue with the people, but in individual situations we had to issue organisational mandates.” - boy with go cart - people riding bicycles - people playing roller hockey - riding motorcycle - fishing people - running people Location: Burgenland, 12 APRIL 2020 - blocked road around lake Neusiedlersee - empty walking and cycling path - duck family crossing the road - rattling storks in silent town Rust - empty center of Rust - closed wine cellars in Purbach - only one car on the road - few people walking in the wine yards - woman lying in the wine yards - man sitting at a table Voxpop (German) Rudolf Kramberger, Vienna: “The reason why we came from Vienna was to picknick in the Green, so we came here hoping that there would not be too many people, but we did not think that there were so few. “ . two cyclists - different shots of nearly empty roads - Empty city center of Eisenstadt - soundbite (German) Helmut Marban, Spokesperson Police Burgenland: “The inhabiants of Burganland are very disciplined with the COVID-19 rules, that means there is quasi no traffic on the roads and the people respect the outdoor restrictions”
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:12/04/2020
- Decade: 2020s