372 AT Kurz crisis management

Record ID: 464240
  • Title: 372 AT Kurz crisis management
  • Date: 3rd July 2020
  • Description:New Crisis and Disaster Protection Act to be drafted by September, says Chancellor Kurz Currently, the number of corona cases in Austria is rising again. Today 109 new infections were reported, 50 of them in Upper Austria, where the virus spreads mainly around a religious community. A total of 787 people in Austria are currently suffering from COVID-19. Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice-Chancellor Werner gave a press conference on the current situation after consultations in these minutes. At this occasion, the Chancellor spoke of the elaboration of a new disaster and crisis law. Shotlist - SOUNDBITE (German) Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor Austria: “Looking back I can say that by fortune the Austrian crisis management worked well but this was not due to the legal regulations. We are a well-positioned country with a functioning administration and with solid law – in the past, the beauty of our constitution was mentioned several times, but during the crisis, we saw that the legal regulations were not always perfect times of crisis." "What can we change in order to be better prepared in the future? We plan to elaborate a Crisis and Disaster Protection Act in order to create a better legal framework for crisis and disaster situations and in order to ensure a maximum of resilience. This begins with issues like acquisition which in crisis situations must be done different and faster than in regular times. This also concerns the cooperation of the federal, state and local authorities. But it also touches the functionality of the public administration and the public operation in a disaster situation." "It happens that the COVID-19 issue will keep us busy until a remedy or a vaccine will be found, there will always be steps forward and there will be steps back, there will be positive developments and there will be regress. For all in the world, we want to avoid a second lockdown, for this one thing is extremely important: the local containment." - 0:1:54 "It must be clear because money was spent accordingly, so it must be clear that the tests must work quickly, no matter in which federal state because that’s the base for quick containment."
  • Collection: ORF
  • Genre:News
  • Producer:ORF
  • Transmission Date:03/07/2020
  • Decade: 2020s
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