The face mask obligation in public transport in Vienna and in pharmacies falls at the end of February. Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) announced this on Wednesday after consultation with corona experts. It is responsible that the “special regulations in the city of Vienna are not extended,” said Ludwig.
“Wearing a mask helped protect particularly vulnerable groups,” Ludwig stressed. The obligation to wear FFP2 face masks in public transport was therefore logical in recent weeks and months. The masks would also have protected against the flu and the RS virus.
A current model calculation by experts now assumes that the currently rising number of corona cases would have peaked between mid-February and mid-March, the mayor explains. The current wave is “demanding”, but there is no need to fear that the capacities of the hospitals will be exceeded, said the SPÖ politician. It can be deduced from this that the current Vienna regulation, which runs until the end of February, does not need to be extended.
PCR test obligation at hospital visits
The PCR test requirement for visitors to hospitals and nursing homes also no longer applies and the visitor limit of three people per day will be lifted, the mayor said after the consultation. In January, the federal government announced that the corona regulations would end on June 30 at the latest and that the face mask obligation in vulnerable areas such as hospitals or nursing homes would end on April 30.
On Wednesday, the mayor of Vienna defended the long adherence to the FFP2 mask requirement after it had already fallen in most areas in other states. This “consistent Viennese way” found its positive expression in the delta wave in autumn 2021, when Vienna had the lowest number of cases in Austria. A large part of the Viennese population also supported this path, Ludwig confirmed.
Source: Krone
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