Austria It returns to confine its entire population as of Monday, due to the rebound of the covid. The Government has approved a new general confinement this Friday, after the measures adopted so far (including restrictions on the movement of the unvaccinated) have not stopped the increase in infections. The authorities of the Central European country thus take another step, after on Thursday they confined their two most affected regions, Salzburg and Upper Austria.
“Citizens will have to assume new restrictions for 20 days because there were too many who have been unsupportive. I ask you to continue the measures and to reduce contacts, “declared Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg.
The chancellor also announced mandatory vaccination as of February 2022 of all residents of the country, in which about 65% of the population has the full pattern, one of the lowest figures in Western Europe. “We have made a very difficult decision, we are forced to adopt a mandatory vaccination from February 2022,” said the federal chancellor.
Thus, Austria becomes the first EU state to pass this measure to increase the vaccination rate.
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