Six days were planned, it has become a month – but on Monday the curtain will rise again in Vienna and Lower Austria, and the “Easter rest” will finally come to an end! With the end of the hard lockdown on Sunday at midnight, shops and body-hugging service providers are allowed to reopen on Monday, as in the rest of Austria. Museums and leisure facilities such as zoos are also opening. What Viennese and Lower Austrians are now allowed to do again – and what not, you can read in the krone.at overview.
A negative corona test and an FFP2 mask are compulsory for hairdressers and the like, and FFP2 masks are also compulsory in indoor retail. Access tests are still not necessary here.
A visit to a museum with the same rules as before a hard lockdown
Museums, exhibition halls and leisure facilities such as zoos will also open their doors to visitors again on May 3rd. You can thus return to the regulations that were in place before the hard lockdown: You do not have to show a negative corona test result when visiting, but there is an FFP2 mask requirement in closed rooms.
In the Schönbrunn Zoo, FFP2 masks are required in the animal houses, toilet facilities and in the information center. The zoo recommends wearing them outdoors – also because the minimum distance is sometimes forgotten when looking at animals, as the zoo management announced. Take-away food will be offered at several locations from Monday.
Mask requirement in the open air ends
The mask requirement in five public places in Vienna, such as the Danube Canal, ends on May 3rd. Masks and spaces, on the other hand, are mandatory indoors.
No opening for gastronomy and culture
There is currently no opening in gastronomy and culture. Whether the Viennese coffee houses and restaurants as well as theaters and concert stages are actually allowed to open on May 19 will probably depend on the situation in the intensive care units. The mayor of Vienna had emphasized several times that measures could be extended if the situation in the hospitals required it.
New infections in Vienna are now on the decline, but health minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) is still worried about the intensive capacities: “There is no relaxation to be seen.” justifiable “. In the east, too, one will have to look closely to see how the situation will change by May 19.
What Viennese and Lower Austrians will also be able to do again from Monday: Go to other federal states, for example to go shopping. Corona penalties, such as those issued at the Designer Outlet Parndorf, are no longer provided outside of your own federal state from May 3.