> Austrian opposition politicians blamed the health minister for failing to update restrictions on the internet.
In the year 2021, government websites’ advice should be legally binding. It’s their fault it wasn’t updated. They should also put the advice on a single website instead of multiple ones, making it easy to update. UK does it, Denmark too, but Germany for example has at least 3 different websites (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Police, Ministry of Foreign Affairs – and some minor advice is different on all three…).
> require anyone over the age of 12 to have a third Covid vaccination
Isn’t it a bit early for that?
> the team checking Covid certificates for an Easyjet flight either did not have up-to-date information
Again, update the website or respect the information that’s written there. It should have been obvious that something was up when a whole plane was breaking rules. Owning up to the mistake and making an exception for a 100 people would have been nice too and it wouldn’t make any difference to Austria’s transmission.
It’s a good thing our government never makes a mess of things…
They shouldn’t have been allowed on the plane. Airlines are meant to enforce such checks for destinations.
Bit unfair and inaccurate by the BBC, this will be the Austrian Border police or immigration rather than the airport.
Why would you not assume you need a PCR test to fly anyway? I can’t name a single country in the EU that doesn’t require one
To be fair, the Austrians have having a tough time with covid. They are locked down again and there are a lot of very anti lockdown/vaccination numpties over there. Salzburg has been particularly awful. The hospital has had dying patients on the floor of corridors.
If the UK was part of EU and Schengen, that wouldn’t be an issue. Just saying…
What a joke all this is. It’s the Covid dictatorship. You need to hire a lawyer now before flying and airlines are not helpful either, since most of them don’t even pick up phones to clarify rules.
Also, each individual EU country has different rules, which is pathetic as well. You can move countries within the EU by land and there are no controls but if you fly they all have different rules.
Good I don’t blame them, people from this country are pathetic.
Skiing ain’t a cheap holiday booking either, gutted
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> Austrian opposition politicians blamed the health minister for failing to update restrictions on the internet.
In the year 2021, government websites’ advice should be legally binding. It’s their fault it wasn’t updated. They should also put the advice on a single website instead of multiple ones, making it easy to update. UK does it, Denmark too, but Germany for example has at least 3 different websites (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Police, Ministry of Foreign Affairs – and some minor advice is different on all three…).
> require anyone over the age of 12 to have a third Covid vaccination
Isn’t it a bit early for that?
> the team checking Covid certificates for an Easyjet flight either did not have up-to-date information
Again, update the website or respect the information that’s written there. It should have been obvious that something was up when a whole plane was breaking rules. Owning up to the mistake and making an exception for a 100 people would have been nice too and it wouldn’t make any difference to Austria’s transmission.
It’s a good thing our government never makes a mess of things…
They shouldn’t have been allowed on the plane. Airlines are meant to enforce such checks for destinations.
Bit unfair and inaccurate by the BBC, this will be the Austrian Border police or immigration rather than the airport.
Why would you not assume you need a PCR test to fly anyway? I can’t name a single country in the EU that doesn’t require one
To be fair, the Austrians have having a tough time with covid. They are locked down again and there are a lot of very anti lockdown/vaccination numpties over there. Salzburg has been particularly awful. The hospital has had dying patients on the floor of corridors.
If the UK was part of EU and Schengen, that wouldn’t be an issue. Just saying…
What a joke all this is. It’s the Covid dictatorship. You need to hire a lawyer now before flying and airlines are not helpful either, since most of them don’t even pick up phones to clarify rules.
Also, each individual EU country has different rules, which is pathetic as well. You can move countries within the EU by land and there are no controls but if you fly they all have different rules.
Good I don’t blame them, people from this country are pathetic.
Skiing ain’t a cheap holiday booking either, gutted