Austria is taking drastic measures to tackle the worrying increase in COVID-19 cases, with figures not seen in more than a year. As of Monday, people who are not vaccinated or have not overcome the disease will not be able to enter cafes, restaurants, hairdressers or events in which there are more than 25 people.
The Government of conservatives and ecologists has made this decision at a time when infections have reached the highest level in a year, with 481 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last eight days.
Germany breaks its historical record of infections again
The alarms are also sounding loudly in Germany, which this Friday broke a new record high in infections, with more than 37,000 infections registered in a single day.
Like Austria, Germany will only allow people vaccinated or with a PCR test to enter restaurants, bars, cinemas and sports and leisure venues. Antigen tests are no longer valid.
Romania remains on the ropes
Romania has been overwhelmed by the pandemic after weeks, with peaks of more than four hundred deaths a day and gruesome scenes in hospitals. Here too the urgency is to get the population vaccinated.
Children will return to classrooms in schools where the vaccination rate for teachers exceeds 60%. The rest must follow the distance classes. The vaccination rate for teaching staff is over 80% in Bucharest. Almost 50% of schools across the country have a staff vaccination rate greater than 60%.
Queues to get vaccinated in Croatia
Same atmosphere of concern over the record numbers of infections in Croatia, where long lines are forming at vaccination centers.
The explosion of COVID-19 cases affects Central and Eastern European countries where only half the population is vaccinated, well below the average of 75% in the rest of the European Union.
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