Sources: BBC
Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and several others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. 2025-06-10
At Salzburg Zoo in Austria, a zookeeper is killed and another is injured by a rhinoceros in its enclosure. The zoo remains closed. 2023-09-12
Austria enters its fourth full nationwide lockdown that prohibits people from leaving their home except for specific reasons, while allowing schools to remain open, in order to reduce the number of new COVID-19 cases. 2021-11-22
Austria reports a record 14,416 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 996,320. 2021-11-17
Austria tightens its border controls with all neighbouring countries in order to avoid non-essential travel due to the pandemic. 2021-02-7
Austria abandons a plan to allow anyone with a negative test result to exit the lockdown a week early, instead extending strict measures and keeping restaurants and non-essential shops closed until January 24. 2021-01-4
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces that private gatherings of more than six people indoors and twelve people outdoors will be banned in Austria from October 23, in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19. 2020-10-19
Two people from Lombardy, Italy, living in Austria's state of Tyrol, test positive for coronavirus. 2020-02-25
Around 40 people are injured after two passenger trains collide in Salzburg, Austria. 2018-04-20
A plane containing 10 members of a Russian spy ring arrives in Vienna, Austria, from the United States. 2010-07-9