Rome, November 19, 2021 – Lockdown generale from Monday in Austria. It will last 20 days and then continue for the unvaccinated. In the country from 1 February 2022 theobligation vaccine to people who have not received any dose of the Covid vaccine by that day. This was announced by the Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg speaking from Innsbruck to the entire nation: “We have to look in front of reality, whoever is against the vaccine makes a careful attention to our health, we do not want the fifth and sixth wave, the virus does not go away, the virus remains “. Austria becomes the first EU country to impose the vaccine. The decision comes after days of alarms due to the very high pressure on hospitals, with infections growing exponentially.
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“The situation is serious, it is even more serious than last week. The dynamics of the infection have not been interrupted. In four weeks the incidence of the virus has quintupled“, said the German Health Minister Jans Spahn, in a press conference in Berlin with the president of the Robert Koch Institut, Lothar Wieler. Spahn cited the anticovid measures decided yesterday that” they will be implemented and controlled. “And he did not mince words. : “We are in a national emergency”, foreseeing that ICU patients will also have to be moved abroad. Wieler added: “We had hoped for a winter, but due to the delta variant and the high rate of people who are not vaccinated the situation is still serious, indeed in some respects worse than in the past “.taxation of ‘2G’ where the incidence of the hospital rate exceeds 3 patients hospitalized by Covid per 100 thousand inhabitants “it is no longer enough” in the current situation. Contacts must be massively reduced, he repeated today too. Answering a question as to why Germany doesn’t go right in lockdown, in light of the drama of the pandemic situation, Spahn: “We are in a phase in which we should not exclude anything”.
The Covid epidemic worsens again also in France, where 57 deaths with infections returned to over 20 thousand on 18 November. 7,787 patients were hospitalized, 522 more than on Wednesday. In total, 1,333 patients were admitted to intensive care, 119 more in the last 24 hours. The number of classes in schools that have been closed has risen sharply in the country in the last week and hit the record since the beginning of the school year in September: 4,048 classes closed, 0.8% of classes in the country announced the national education ministry. The previous record was on September 16, when 3,300 classes were left at home. “It is not necessary” in France to impose a lockdown for the unvaccinated said the French president, Emmanuel Macron, considering the health certificate sufficient to encourage vaccination and at the same time stem the pandemic.
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The Russia has registered 1,254 dead for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic. The coronavirus crisis center reports this. The total death toll rose to 261,589. According to data from the crisis center, 2.83% of coronavirus patients have died in Russia.
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