Austria Enters Lockdown, But Who Is Next?
- By Sam van de Schootbrugge
- 3 min read
What Is Happening in Austria?
Austria has entered a 20-day full lockdown and ordered compulsory Covid-19 vaccination from 1 February 2022. Cases in the country are up 32% WoW – 88,000 have been recorded over the last seven days. Deaths have also crept above 50 per day, the highest since February, but still far behind the 200 of December 2020 (Chart 1).
Hospitalisations are also lower than during the last wave but have increased 20% WoW and 200% MoM (Chart 2). Austria now has one of the highest hospitalisation rates per million in Europe (Chart 3). This excludes Eastern European countries, where vaccination programmes have notoriously struggled to attract arms. Hungary currently has one of the highest hospitalisation rates globally.
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