The industries fear massive losses in sales and a wave of cancellations. As announced yesterday, Wednesday, due to the impending wave of Omikron, the curfew in gastronomy will be brought forward from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. In addition, Great Britain, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands have been declared virus variant areas.
Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein should consider “whether he should not return to his traditional office and leave the ministerial office and hand it over to someone else who could certainly do better,” said the WKÖ chairman of gastronomy, Mario Pulker, on Thursday in Ö1 -Morning journal of the ORF radio.
“The damage is enormous and it has already occurred,” said Vice President of the Austrian Hotel Association (ÖHV) Walter Veit. The wave of cancellation is already in motion, since yesterday’s decision by the Gecko advisory committee for tourism declared important countries of origin to be variant areas. From variant countries you can only enter with a third bite without quarantine. Both industry representatives spoke out in favor of increasing the aid measures on the part of the government.
Source: Nachrichten
