Austria re-imposes a full Covid lockdown and makes vaccination mandatory
Published Fri, Nov 19 20214:50 AM EST
Key Points
- Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced that Covid vaccination would become mandatory in Austria from Feb. 1.
- On Thursday, Austria recorded 15,145 new cases of Covid-19, setting a new record high for daily positive tests.
Austria will enter a fourth national lockdown on Monday as Covid-19 cases continue to surge.
The country’s unvaccinated are already barred from leaving their homes for non-essential purposes.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced at a press conference on Friday that those lockdown measures would be extended to the entire country from Monday.
The lockdown would last for a maximum of 20 days, Schallenberg said.
He also announced that Covid vaccination would become mandatory in Austria from Feb. 1.
On Thursday, Austria recorded 15,145 new cases of Covid-19, setting a new record high for daily positive tests.
Around 65% of Austria’s population has been fully vaccinated against the virus, which Schallenberg has previously described as “shamefully low.” The country has the second-lowest vaccination rate in western Europe after Liechtenstein.
The Austrian Press Agency reported that government ministers were negotiating into the early hours of Friday to come up with action that could help curb Austria’s spiraling Covid crisis.
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Austria Covid hospitalization has primarily been those
not vaccinated.
But Prof Eva Schernhammer, of the Medical University of Vienna, said the measures were needed, warning that hospital intensive care units were filling up. "It's already projected that within two weeks we'll have reached the limit," she said.
Unvaccinated people were already barred from visiting restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas, but will now be expected to stay at home.
Simply, those
not vaccinated (around 2 million people) in Austria has been fucking up everything for everybody else that lives in Austria.
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