The extraordinary step shows that governments desperate to safeguard public health and economic recoveries are increasingly willing to push for once unthinkable measures.
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Austria Announces Nationwide Lockdown and Plans Vaccine Mandate
The nationwide lockdown is Europe’s second since spring. And the national vaccine mandate is a first for the continent.
First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Says
A new review of early Covid-19 cases in the journal Science will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over how the pandemic began.
2 Austrian States, Including Salzburg, to Impose Covid Lockdowns
The state, along with neighboring Upper Austria, will apply the restrictions to everyone regardless of inoculation status. The moves come in the wake of national rules affecting unvaccinated people.
Germany Moves to Impose New Covid Regulations
The measures include a rule that only those who are vaccinated, have recovered from an infection or test negative can ride public transit or attend work in person.
Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated: Europe’s Covid Culture War
In pockets of Europe, vaccine resistance has become the long tail of the populist nationalist movements that shook up European politics for a decade.
Spain’s Basque Region Restricts Gatherings as Cases Rise
The move contributes to a national debate on whether the country should reintroduce restrictions to prevent a Covid resurgence this winter.
Europe Toughens Rules for Unvaccinated as Fourth Covid Wave Swells
Austria took the hardest line yet on Monday, beginning a lockdown aimed exclusively at those who are not inoculated, part of a pattern to make life harder for resisters.
Europe Toughens Rules for Unvaccinated as Fourth Covid Wave Swells
Austria took the hardest line yet on Monday, beginning a lockdown aimed exclusively at those who are not inoculated, part of a pattern to make life harder for resisters.
Austria’s New Coronavirus Lockdown Applies Only to the Unvaccinated.
The restrictions were among the toughest of a wave of new rules in Europe, which the W.H.O. has said is “back at the epicenter of the pandemic.”