Lockdown For The Unvaccinated - This Country Takes Drastic Covid Step
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Austria needs to raise its "shamefully low vaccination rate," Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said at a press conference in Vienna. "We are not taking this step lightly. But unfortunately it's necessary."
Austria is putting unvaccinated people under lockdown from Monday, the most drastic move by a Western European country to slow the latest wave of the coronavirus.
European cases reached almost 2 million last week, the most in a single week in the region since the pandemic started. The Netherlands and Latvia have both imposed new measures, while Germany is considering new restrictions after cases rose to record levels.
Globally, governments keen to get life back to normal are increasingly looking for ways to force more people to get inoculated -- from putting unvaccinated people on forced leave, to declining to pay for their medical care.
Austria needs to raise its "shamefully low vaccination rate," Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said at a press conference in Vienna. "We are not taking this step lightly. But unfortunately it's necessary."
