After halting their tourist tours, Viennas horse-drawn carriages are now delivering food to the elderly. The carriages, or "Fiaker" as they are called in Vienna, are taking part in a food delivery scheme in one of the citys central districts set up by the InterContinental Hotel, itself severely hit by lockdown measures taken to halt the spread of the virus. According to AFP, instead of catering to guests, the hotels kitchens have been turning out 200-300 meals a day for senior citizens in the area. Deliveries are made by volunteers using all manner of vehicles including "Fiaker" driver Christian Gerzabek, who said "despite business coming to a standstill, the horses still have to be moved, they want to get out after the winter." "I thought that we should combine this with doing something good for people who need it," he told AFP. The scheme has been a lifeline for its elderly beneficiaries like Anneliese Nebenfuehr, who thinks the deliveries were wonderful. "I told the gentleman on the phone to give a kiss to the whole team," she said. InterContinental general director Brigitte Trattner said carriage drivers were the first to respond to a call for delivery volunteers, with car drivers and cyclists also signing up. Describing the InterContinental Vienna as an intrinsic part of Viennas third district, Trattner said that when the coronavirus crisis broke "we naturally thought: Is there any way we can help?" The hotel plans to run the project until Monday, and after that Trattner says meals would be distributed to staff at the Rudolfstiftung hospital, which is also nearby.