People who are unvaccinated or who haven't recently recovered from COVID-19 will have to go into lockdown from midnight, Austria's chancellor has announced.
"The situation is serious," Alexander Schallenberg said, adding that the measure was, unfortunately, "necessary".
He emphasised that the incidence rate among the unvaccinated was much higher than among those who had the jab, at around 1700 new cases per 100,000 people.
Random checks will be carried out to make sure the population is following
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