Austria: unvaccinated people do not accept their confinement
An Austrian policeman checks the medical pass of a motorist in the city of Graz.
November 15, 2021. AFP - ERWIN SCHERIAU
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This Monday, November 15 marked the first day of confinement for unvaccinated people in the country.
The aim of the government is to convince the reluctant because only 65% of Austrians have, to date, received their two doses, a rate below the European average.
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With our correspondent in Vienna
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Isaure Hiace
The movements of unvaccinated people are now restricted to what is strictly necessary.
A situation experienced as an injustice by many of them like Michaela, aged about fifty.
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People who have been vaccinated can infect others just as much and I find it totally unfair that the unvaccinated should pay the high price.
I have a medical history, I have had antiviral chemotherapy and I dare not get the vaccine because I am afraid I will not endure it with the side effects that I already have
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Nothing will change for me
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Other unvaccinated believe that this confinement will have little impact on their daily lives. This is the case with Manuel Burian. “
Nothing is going to change for me because they don't really control. So I will continue to do what I have always done. I'm not someone who goes to restaurants every weekend, I prefer to order take out food. So it doesn't change anything for me. When the inactivated virus vaccine is there I will go for the vaccine, but not out of conviction, just to be left alone
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A demonstration is planned for this Saturday, November 20 in Vienna to protest against this confinement.
Far-right leader Herbert Kickl, a staunch opponent of the vaccine, has called for a large rally he will not attend.
He has just been tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Austria confines the unvaccinated, a first in the EU
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