Austrian Judge Rules Against COVID Restrictions After Testing Issues

Casts doubt on PCR methodology

Small business owners from the gastronomy, beauty and other branches attend a protest against the coronavirus (Covid-19) restriction measures outside of the Austrian Chancellery in Vienna on March 22, 2021. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

On Mar. 24, the Administrative Court of Vienna upheld an action by the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ)—the Austrian Freedom Party, the third-largest political party in the country—against a ban by Viennese police on a planned public assembly.