Empty streets in the Frist District in Vienna, March 14, 2020. Usually...READ ON
Empty streets in the Frist District in Vienna, March 14, 2020. Usually crowded with people on a Saturday morning
Empty Herbert von Karajan Platz in Front of Opera, Vienna, March 14, 2020
Empty entrance area to the Albertina, a famous museum in Vienna's First...READ ON
Empty entrance area to the Albertina, a famous museum in Vienna's First District is closed to SARS-CoV-2 spread. Vienna, March 14, 2020
Empty Fiaker queue usually loved by tourists, March 14, 2020
March 14 people were still allowed to be on the street, which changed on the...READ ON
March 14 people were still allowed to be on the street, which changed on the next day, when Chancellor Sebastian Kurz extended restrictions on freedom of movement.
The squares around Vienna Opera are usually crowded with people on a Saturday...READ ON
The squares around Vienna Opera are usually crowded with people on a Saturday morning but March 14, 2020 shows spooky emptiness.
Vienna, March 14, 2020
Reminds on the Surface of SARS-CoV-2. Inside Marina Rotunda Church in Vienna, March 14, 2020
Vienna, March 14, 2020
The fear of Covid-19 cleared public spaces worldwide within a few weeks. The pictures of this story document the growing global calamity in Vienna, Austria during the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in March 2020. The pictures document of what public life looks like during this 2020 Coronavirus outbreak. When the Austrian Government decided quite early on, Mid March, to lock down the city / country, restrictions quickly resulted in closed restaurants and once-bustling museums, in eerie stillness of public spaces, recently emptied of the crowds they were built for. Unique moments though – to be there alone. An atmosphere of surprise, quietness and fear thought, announces big changes in short – and longer-term - future. People started hoarding products, which they consider key to maintaining routine life. Society seemed getting paralyzed and emptiness proliferated like the virus.