Austria returned to normal politics at the beginning of 2020 as a new government coalition of the Christian-Democratic Austrian People's Party/Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) and the Greens/Die Grünen – Die Grüne Alternative (GA) assumed office. However, two months later the country found itself in the international spotlight again, when an Alpine winter sports village became an early hotspot and ‘superspreader’ of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Europe. The struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects dominated Austrian politics for the remainder of the year. Two regional elections confirmed sitting Social Democratic Land governors. A parliamentary committee of inquiry's work and judicial investigations produced increasingly discomforting news reports for the ÖVP.