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Austria sent millions of unvaccinated people into lockdown Monday as it battles to contain record levels of Covid-19, the latest in a string of targeted restrictions as governments around the world crack down on vaccine holdouts in an effort to boost stagnant vaccination rates....
Children under the age of 12 and people who have recently recovered from Covid-19 will be exempt from the new restrictions, said health minister Wolfgang Mückstein.additional restrictions are being considered for all people in an effort to ease pressure on Austria’s struggling hospitals. The government said it will carry out checks on people out in public and fine those flouting the new rules.
With the policy, Austria joins a number of other regions restricting the freedoms of unvaccinated people, including parts of Australia, which