Austrians are confined for the third time to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic.
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More than 4,000 people demonstrated on Wednesday in several Austrian cities against the measures enacted to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, while the country is experiencing a third general confinement until January 24.
The largest demonstration gathered 2,500 people in Wiener Neustadt, in the east of the country, according to the police.
It arrested several people for non-compliance with anti-Covid measures.
Some 1,000 other people gathered in Amstetten (north), and 500 in Judenburg (center).
The epidemic returns to the country
Smaller protests, some presented as "marches" to escape restrictions on gatherings, were also recorded in several other towns in different parts of the country.
Rather spared by the first wave after being confined early, Austria, presented as a model student in the spring, is now struggling to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
She had to reconfigure herself on Boxing Day, barely twenty days after the lifting of a strict regime of restrictions.
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