Austria: lockdown for the unvaccinated announced

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UPDATE: ** Austria to go head with plan to lockdown the unvaccinated across the entire country **  

Austria announces lockdown of the unvaccinated for the entire country – “random checks will be carried out”

Austria will impose a nationwide lockdown for people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming the first country in the world to do so, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced on Friday.

Schallenberg, speaking at a press conference in Tyrol, said the nationwide lockdown is expected to be formally approved at a meeting on Sunday. Random checks will be carried out to ensure compliance with the new restrictions.

BNONews.com report

 

 

Austria’s Covid case rates are already higher than the winter wave of 2020:

 

Austria: more than 50% of Covid hospital patients are double vaccinated

 

** This post was originally published on November 11, 2021 **