Austria Imposes Lockdown , for the Unvaccinated.br The country implemented the lockdown on br Nov. 15 as COVID-19 infections rise across Europe.br That means that about two million unvaccinated people in Austria are now only permitted to leave their homes for essential reasons.br My aim is very clear: to get the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, not to lock up the unvaccinated, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, via Reuters.br Critics say it will be difficult br to enforce this type of lockdown.br It is definitely a way of introducing a requirement to get vaccinated through the back door, Pensioner Susanne Zwach, via Reuters.br Austria's far-right br Freedom Party, which has br stoked vaccine skepticism.br intends to protest the country's br COVID-19 policies on Nov. 20.