Unvaccinated people in two hard-hit regions in Austria will be forced into lockdown next week as the government looks at doing the same nationwide due to rising COVID19 cases
Many Austrians are sceptical about vaccinations, a view encouraged by the far-right Freedom Party, the third-biggest in parliament.
patients, people not vaccinated against the virus will be placed under lockdown rules, with restrictions on their daily freedoms.On Thursday, official figures showed 760.6 reported new cases per 100,000 residents over the previous seven days - a rate three times that of neighbouring Germany, where record numbers are also causing alarm.
"A lockdown for the unvaccinated means one cannot leave one's home unless one is going to work, shopping , stretching one's legs - namely exactly what we all had to suffer through in 2020," Mr Schallenberg said, referring to three national lockdowns last year.
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