#Austria will be the first European country to start exiting the #coronavirus lockdown already on 14.04, with a plan to fully restart the economy on 01.05., according to @sebastiankurz

How will Austria achieve this:
1. It went into lockdown early & applied stringent, targeted measures quickly following scientific advice, including from mathematicians.
2. It& #39;s introducing masks in shops, public transport & asking employers to get employees to wear them at work

After months of denial about masks, expect other governments to follow suit and start introducing mandatory mask-wearing (Czechia was an early leader in this). This is the Austrian government today: #Masks4All #MaskeAuf

It will be interesting to see what happens with #EU borders: exiting national lockdown will be conditional on keeping borders closed if the neighboring nations (potentially like in the case of Austria) are not equally advanced in curbing the epidemic