On Monday this week, Austria introduced a lockdown for unvaccinated citizens. While vaccinated people can party all night long and mingle in larger groups, the population that has not received the syringe stick must sit inside.
If you defy the rules, you can be fined up to 1450 euros. The police enforce the rules. The goal is for more of the approximately 1.6 million unvaccinated inhabitants to take the vaccine.
Unvaccinated Austrians can only go out to breathe, visit the doctor or buy necessary goods.
The latter has left its mark on Christmas shopping in the country, since the rules mean, among other things, that unvaccinated people cannot buy Christmas presents in physical stores.
Protester
A video posted on Twitter by Dr. Eli David shows police officers checking vaccination status inside a shoe and clothing store.
