Formally, the Austrian "lockdown" would have expired on Tuesday. On Monday, the main committee of the National Council decided, with the votes of the ÖVP and the Greens, to extend the entry bans and exit restrictions until Sunday for the time being. What is new is that negative PCR results can now be used as an "entrance ticket" within Germany for 72 hours. According to the amendment to the regulation presented by Health Minister Rudolf Anschober, a confirmed negative antigen test or a negative PCR test will be accepted as proof of testing, with antigen tests being a maximum of 48 hours old and molecular biological tests a maximum of 72 hours old. This extended validity regulation will also apply in the future to visits to old people's and nursing homes and to the use of personal services such as visits to the hairdresser. Those who have recovered are now worse off However, people who have survived Covid-19 will be worse off in the future. From now on, proof of recovery will only be accepted for three months. Previously, this applied for six months. Either confirmation of recovery, positive antibody tests or isolation notices due to an officially confirmed COVID-19 infection can be presented, but only for a maximum of three months. After that, the papers are de facto worthless. The opposition strongly criticises the government's decisions and unanimously refused to give their consent. Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) justifies the decision regarding recovered people by saying that it is based on scientific findings. But he did not say which ones. Anschober left open which easing steps there will be from Monday, especially in Vorarlberg. He could not "present anything in detail yet, we are in the middle of the work process," he said. But the fact is that Vorarlberg's decoupling from the federal level has recently even increased. The situation there has been "for four weeks