Austria will impose lockdown on its population starting Monday, as well as making anti-COVID-19 vaccines mandatory amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Currently, COVID-19 cases in Austria are at their peak, as the daily average of new infections reaches 12,616 each day, according to the latest update of Reuters’ COVID-19 tracker on November 19.
As for vaccination, Austria has administered at least 12,531,378 doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines so far, assuming each person needs 2 shots to have vaccinated about 70.6% of the country’s population, according to the same source.
For now, around 66% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated, representing one of the lowest rates in western Europe, in addition to the overcrowded hospitals with many new COVID-19 patients and deaths that are rising continually, pushing the country to implement new measures in order to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Two states in Austria, namely Salzburg and Upper Austria, had already adopted some restrictions to be effective starting next week, with the rules extended to apply to vaccinated people and a full lockdown starting next week, including the closure of schools and a curfew.
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg has already announced on Sunday that a nationwide lockdown would take place starting Monday for unvaccinated people or recently recovered, with the current decision changing to also include vaccinated Austrians in order to curb the spread of the virus.
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