Austria's Health Ministry Rudolf Anschober has urged citizens to stay indoors despite the warn lovely weather the country is experiencing.infections has decreased to a single digit percentage range from 40% three weeks ago as restrictions on people’s movement and the closure of schools and shops took effect, the Health Ministry said.
“We have to considerably strengthen and then stabilise the current trend, then we have a real chance,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said, urging people to stay at home despite sunny and warm spring weather. Austria was one of the first European countries to put severe restrictions on movement and close shops and schools in response to the developments in neighbouring Italy and a strong increase in coronavirus infections in its ski resorts.