Vienna's pony drawn carriages, a staple of road life in the Austrian capital and a famous vacation destination, have been sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic - so they are currently conveying nourishment to the old.

The carriages, or "Fiaker" as they are brought in Vienna, are partaking in a nourishment conveyance conspire in one of the city's focal areas set up by the InterContinental Hotel, itself seriously hit by lockdown estimates taken to stop the spread of the infection.

Rather than taking into account visitors, the inn's kitchens have been turning out 200-300 dinners per day for senior residents in the zone.

Conveyances are made by volunteers utilizing all way of vehicles - including by low maintenance "Fiaker" driver Christian Gerzabek.

Despite business grinding to a halt, "the ponies despite everything must be moved, they need to get out after the winter," he says.

"I felt that we should consolidate that.. with accomplishing something useful for individuals who need it," he told AFP.

The plan has been a help for its old recipients.

One of them, Anneliese Nebenfuehr, said she thought the conveyances were "awesome".

"I advised the man of his word on the telephone to give a kiss to the entire group," she said.

InterContinental general chief Brigitte Trattner said carriage drivers were the first to react to a call for conveyance volunteers, with vehicle drivers and cyclists likewise joining.

Portraying the InterContinental Vienna as an inborn piece of Vienna's third region, Trattner said that when the coronavirus emergency broke "we normally thought: Is there, in any case, we can help?"

The lodging intends to run the task until Monday, and after that Trattner says dinners would be appropriated to staff at the Rudolfstiftung emergency clinic, which is additionally close by.