VIENNA, Jan 26 — Austria today announced it was ending a lockdown for those unvaccinated as it prepares to become the first EU country to make Covid-19 jabs mandatory from next week.
But with intensive care units no longer at capacity, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said the general order to stay at home would be lifted from next Monday. “Our top priority is to keep the restrictions as low as possible and only for as long as absolutely necessary,” Nehammer told reporters. Austria’s daily surge of new infections hit a fresh record today. The country of almost nine million people has seen more than 1.6 million cases and 14,000 deaths.
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