Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Wednesday that the lockdown for unvaccinated residents will end next Monday (January 31).
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Nehammer said the measure, which was introduced in November, was no longer needed because there was no threat of hospital intensive care units being overstretched.
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The lockdown will expire one day before a COVID-19 vaccine mandate — the first of its kind in Europe — takes effect in the country.
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We are turning into China and if we don’t prevent the introduction of compulsory vaccination in Austria, Europe will no longer be part of ‘The Free West’.
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Officials have said the mandate is necessary because vaccination rates remain too low. So far, 75.4% of the country’s residents have been fully vaccinated.
From mid-March, police will start checking people’s vaccination status during routine checks; people who can’t produce proof of vaccination will be asked to do so in writing and will be fined up to €600 euros if they don’t.