Inside the Austrian lockdown

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https://unherd.com/2021/11/inside-the-austrian-lockdown/

Since Monday, unvaccinated Austrians are not allowed to leave their homes except to go to work, to buy essential supplies, or to take exercise: it’s the world’s first “lockdown for the unvaccinated”. It was introduced in response to rapidly rising cases and a lack of excess capacity in Austrian hospitals. “It is not a recommendation, but an order,” announced the Interior Minister Karl Nehammer at a press conference. “Every citizen should know that they will be checked by the police.”

It is, essentially, a ratcheting up of the regime of vaccine passports that exists already in many countries across Europe, whereby unvaccinated people are already excluded from restaurants, museums and theatres. But to place a minority of the population under partial house arrest does seem to cross a new line.

[moondust]

1. That was November.

Now going into full lockdown.

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The lockdown is an expansion of Austria's earlier decision to impose restrictions specifically for those who weren't fully vaccinated, Reuters noted.
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https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/austria-imposes-full-lockdown-amid-rising-covid-cases