Austria Orders Lockdown for the Unvaccinated, Directs Police to Carry Out Spot-Checks

A demonstrator holds a placard reading, "No to compulsory vaccination," during a protest against COVID-19 vaccine lockdowns in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 14, 2021. Georg Hockmuth/APA/AFP via Getty Images

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Sunday announced the country is placing millions of people who aren’t fully vaccinated for COVID-19 on lockdown starting Monday.

About 65 percent of the Central European nation’s population is vaccinated, according to government data. Under the measures revealed on Sunday, unvaccinated people are ordered to stay at home except for limited reasons.