Vector spread from Austrian ski town was toxic mix of business and politics

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'It seems that business came before people's health, and this makes me really upset,' - Covid-19 patient who caught the virus in an Austrian ski town

to all the tourists who visited the Paznaun Valley in those days and got infected with coronavirus.

"It is not a class action," points out Dr Peter Kolba, founder and president of VSV, "it is a collection of complaints from victims, a plea to the public prosecutor in Innsbruck to examine these casesand ascertain whether the authorities knew and did not react in time. In the future, it will possibly become a class action, a claim for damages against the Republic of Austria." , and nobody can be held responsible for any damage suffered.

"Tourism is as important for Tyrol as it is for some seaside resorts on the Turkish Riviera, over 40 million overnight stays per year, a large part in winter," political activist and blogger, Markus Wilhelm, tells"It is a lucrative business that employs many people, also from abroad." "The season did not end immediately," continues Wilhelm, "but only a few days later. In the meantime, of course, many more people were infected."

It would mean that the virus had been around Ischgl, undetected, for more than a month spreading from customer to customer – another storm for the local administration, already accused of having concealed the first cases. Later on, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober retreated and affirmed the date had been miswritten.

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