VoltBefore the Corona demonstration in Vienna began, the police also prepared for the riot. A police spokesman said on Saturday: “We are fully capable of preventing any escalation.” In addition to normal patrols, there are 1,300 plainclothes police and civil defense personnel on duty. In the Netherlands, protests against stricter corona measures took place on Friday night.
The spokesperson said that in Vienna, the organizers tried to confuse the authorities with dozens of registrations for rallies. The police assumed that there would basically be three rallies starting at noon. It must be expected that parts of the city center will have to be temporarily closed to traffic.correct FPÖIs one of the main organizers of the rally, and it is expected that approximately 10,000 participants will participate in the protest. Their party leader Herbert Kickl (Herbert Kickl) is currently suffering from COVID-19, and he believes that Austria is moving towards a “dictatorship.”
Shortly before the lockdown scheduled to begin in Austria on Monday, Vienna is now recording more coronavirus vaccinations than ever before. 29,955 people were vaccinated on Thursday and 30,788 people were vaccinated on Friday. This was reported by the Kurier newspaper quoting Peter Hacker, the spokesperson of the Vienna Municipal Health Commission. Hacker accordingly wrote that this is an “absolute record.”
According to the report, the city also hopes to send a letter to 340,000 people who have not been vaccinated, which already includes individual vaccination appointments at the Austrian center.
In Austria, the lockdown began on Monday, and the vaccination and recovery period should end by December 13 at the latest. Exit restrictions also apply to people who have not been vaccinated.
headmaster Alexander Schellenberg (ÖV) did not give a deadline for lifting the group’s exit restrictions on Friday night. “We don’t have an end date,” Schellenberg said on the ORF news program “ZiB2” when asked about this question. The head of government said that it must now finally be possible to increase the vaccination quota so far in order to control the pandemic and no longer require a lockdown in the future. He urged those who have not been vaccinated to use the vaccination discount now.
Sorry for the person who was vaccinated
At the same time, he apologized to the vaccinated people for the severe steps of export restrictions that began on Monday. Schallenberg said he found it very unbearable to have to ask those who did everything right to do this kind of solidarity behavior.
The details of mandatory vaccination from February 2022 will also be determined by the government and will now be formulated by experts. The head of government stated that only now can it be determined what exceptions are made and the level of penalties for violations.
At the same time, the Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen Faced with the debate about the new blockade, he warned that there would be rifts in society. “Let us not divide,” Van der Belen said in a televised speech on Friday night. The response should not be dominated by anger, pain, and anger, but by the insight that only withdrawal restrictions can break the massive fourth wave of corona. The head of state also clearly defended the mandatory vaccination announced by the government. Citizens have rights and obligations. Van der Bellen said this includes the responsibility to protect the community.
Due to the daily recorded number of COVID-19 infections, Austria now has an incidence rate of 1050 per 100,000 inhabitants for 7 days.