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Faced with the fifth wave of Covid-19, Austria is the first European country to reconfine its population. The country will also impose compulsory vaccination on its entire population from February.
Faced with the dizzying increase in the number of cases of Covid, the Austrians expected to be reconfigured, but Alexander Schallenberg, their Chancellor, went much further on the morning of Friday, November 19. “It’s irresponsible, there is an attack on our healthcare system”, He denounced. Austria becomes the first European country to make vaccination compulsory from next February.
Generalized confinement will begin Monday, November 22, for a period of three weeks. The government says it has no other choice to get out of the vicious cycle of the pandemic. THEThe Austrians do not all agree. “It’s not possible, people still have the right to decide what they want to do“, denounces a passerby. With a vaccination rate of 64.8%, Austria lags behind at European level.
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