A civil trial opened in Austria on Friday over the government's handling of a coronavirus outbreak at the popular Ischgl ski resort in March 2020 that led to thousands of people getting infected. The outbreak is considered one of Europe's earliest" super-spreader" events of the pandemic. The case – the first of 15 lawsuits accusing the government of mishandling COVID-19 outbreaks in Ischgl and other resorts in the Tyrol province – is brought by the widow and son of 72-year-old Hannes Schopf, who