not so long ago, ischgl was best known as the ibiza of the alps, as famous for its dazzling apres ski scene as its 240 kilometres of pistes. but in early march 2020, as covid began to arrive in europe, the authorities here were slow to respond. several days passed between the first positive test and ischgl s bars being ordered to close on 10 march. then, on friday 13 march the austrian chancellor sebastien kurtz ordered a lockdown, warning tourists that if they didn t leave immediately, they would have to quarantine at the resort.
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not so long ago, ischgl was best known as the ibiza of the alps, as famous for its dazzling apres ski scene as its 240 kilometres of pistes. but in early march 2020, as covid began to arrive in europe, the authorities here were slow to respond. several days passed between the first positive test and ischgl s bars being ordered to close on 10 march. then, on friday 13 march the austrian chancellor sebastien kurtz ordered a lockdown, warning tourists that if they didn t leave immediately, they would have to quarantine at the resort. the result was pandemonium, as people fled to catch a flight home.
several days passed between the first positive test and ischgl s bars being ordered to close on 10 march. then, on friday 13 march the austrian chancellor sebastien kurtz ordered a lockdown, warning tourists that if they didn t leave immediately, they would have to quarantine at the resort. the result was pandemonium, as people fled to catch a flight home. more than 6000 tourists from nearly 50 countries say they caught coronavirus in ischgl, going on to spread the virus across the continent and beyond. and so, this small alpine community was labelled the super spreader resort . before the lockdown, it was reported staff at the kitzloch bar had continued to turn up to work, despite displaying the flulike symptoms that came to be