In Austria there is no curfew from 10 p.m

A sharepic is currently being distributed specifically in Germany that speaks of a curfew from 10 p.m. in Austria. That's not quite true.

I'm really not a complainer. Actually. But today I came across a sharepic several times on social media regarding a curfew in Austria, and I would just like to make a tiny comment on the first paragraph.

It's really only about the first paragraph, I haven't checked further whether the rest is correct, but in the first paragraph of the text on the sharepic there are already two errors that make it annoying.

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This first paragraph speaks of a curfew in Austria from 10 p.m. Apart from the fact that as of today we have stricter corona measures in Austria around the clock, the statement about the curfew is also incorrect.

I don't know where this 10 p.m. number comes from, but there has been no measure in relation to corona measures in the last few weeks that has in any way been related to 10 p.m. So let's take a quick look at what's really going on in Austria at the moment.

There is no curfew in Austria

What exists here in Austria are exit regulations that have been in effect around the clock since Tuesday (November 17th, 2020). Until last week, these exit regulations only applied from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., not from 10 p.m. as claimed.

Since the hoped-for effect of falling new infections did not occur quickly enough, these regulations have now been tightened and therefore apply around the clock. Nevertheless, these are not curfews , but rather exit regulations as part of the COVID-19 Emergency Measures Ordinance, which allow for many exceptions. These exceptions, some of which can be widely interpreted, are ( original text ):

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Leaving the private living area and staying outside the private living area are only permitted for the following purposes:
1) Averting an immediate danger to life, limb and property
2) Caring for and providing assistance to people in need of support as well as exercising family rights and fulfilling family obligations
3) Covering the necessary basic needs of daily life, such as in particular
- contact with the life partner who does not live in the same household or contact with individual closest relatives or individual important reference persons, with whom contact is usually maintained several times a week
- the provision of Basic goods of daily life
- the use of health services
- the meeting of housing needs
- the satisfaction of basic religious needs, such as visits to cemeteries and individual visits to places of religious practice, as well as
- the care of animals.
4) professional and educational purposes, if necessary.
5) Staying outdoors for physical and mental recovery
6) for the purpose of carrying out urgent official or judicial procedures
7) for participating in legally stipulated elections and for the use of legally stipulated instruments of direct democracy
8) for the purpose of entering locations and customer areas of business premises , which entry is permitted according to this regulation and
9) to participate in events listed in the regulation

I don't want to go into detail at this point about what these exceptions enable or do not enable, but in fact the statement about the curfew from 22 is wrong.

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