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Increase in Covid-19 infection levels, lockdowns mar festive cheer in Europe

 Rising coronavirus sickness instances in Europe have caused considerable issues amongst medical doctors and scientists as governments impose lockdown measures to scale down the unfold of the sickness beforehand of Christmas and New Year’s Day. Austria, Germany and Russia have been some of the international locations in Europe which noticed file surges in every day Covid-19 instances and deaths. These nations additionally tightened regulations and Austria have become the primary European kingdom to impose a national lockdown to scale down the latest unfold of Covid-19. 'Dramatic state of affairs' German vice chancellor Angela Merkel entreated residents to get vaccinated because the German authorities delivered tighter regulations to scale down the kingdom’s maximum Covid-19 contamination ...
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This Country Orders Lockdown For Unvaccinated In Drastic Covid Step

Austria put people who were not vaccinated under the lockdown from Monday, the most drastic step by Western European countries to slow the latest wave of Coronavirus. European cases reached almost 2 million last week, the most in one week in this area since the pandemic began. The Netherlands and Latvia have imposed new steps, while Germany considered new restrictions after the case rose to a record level. Globally, the government who wants to live normally again find ways to force more people to be investigated - from placing people who are not vaccinated on forced leave, to refuse to pay for their medical care. Austria needs to raise "a shameful low vaccination rate," said Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg at a press conference in Vienna. "We don't take this step lightly. But unfortunate...