- Title: 276 AT COVID-19 Kurz Statement
- Date: 7th May 2020
- Description:Statement of Austrian Chancellor Kurz after an international video conference with other heads of states Statement of Austrian Chancellor Kurz after an international video conference with other heads of states today morning. Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Singapur, Israel, Norway, the Czech Republic, and Greece took part of the video conference. They spoke about research and vaccine, border controls, and a possible new wave of infections with COVID-19. Shotlist - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian KURZ, Austrian Chancellor: "Hello, welcome, ladies and gentlemen. May I report that we had a good exchange with various countries which, like us, reacted very quickly and successfully to the coronavirus. These are countries like New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Singapore, but also in European countries like Norway or the Czech Republic, with whom we exchange information. Together we discuss how is the best way to get through these challenging times." - WS Flags - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian KURZ, Austrian Chancellor: "How can we join our forces even better in researching a vaccination or a medicine? How can we then ensure that our population has rapid and widespread access to it? Secondly, we talked about how we can gradually lower (the restrictions at) the borders again - between all the countries that have gone through this crisis well and now have low numbers of new infections. And thirdly, we talked about how to deal with a second wave and how to respond to it." - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian KURZ, Austrian Chancellor: "The fact is that we naturally have an interest in opening the borders to countries that are safe. In our view, this is at least Germany, this is the Czech Republic. We are also in contact with these countries. We also want the borders to be open." - PAN RIGHT Sebastian Kurz saying goodbye and leaving - WS Austrian flag
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:07/05/2020
- Decade: 2020s