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Austrians Protest the Vaccine Mandate and the Lockdown
Thousands of people protested in Vienna against the measures, which include a statewide lockdown set to begin on Monday, according to the government.
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Thousands of people protested in Vienna against the measures, which include a statewide lockdown set to begin on Monday, according to the government. CreditCredit… Associated Press/Lisa Leutner
Thousands of Austrians marched through the heart of Vienna on Saturday, chanting “freedom” and “resistance” at a mass demonstration that drew families and far-right groups alike, united in their outrage at their government’s decision to impose more restrictions on public life and a vaccine mandate to protect against the coronavirus.
According to authorities in Vienna, the march through the city center drew up to 35,000 people. The rallies were rather calm for much of the day, but as night set over the Austrian capital, skirmishes erupted between cops and groups of protestors, and the police readied for further violence.
Far-right activists and hooligans tossed beer cans at cops and set off fireworks at several spots along the route, according to the police. At least five persons were detained, according to authorities, while numerous more were issued citations for failing to wear masks or displaying stars similar to those put on Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Demonstrators beat on drums and rang cowbells along the road to voice their displeasure with measures aimed at curbing the coronavirus’s unchecked spread, including a statewide lockdown beginning Monday. Many demonstrators claimed that their leaders had not done enough to prevent the most draconian measures from being implemented.
Source: Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). The daily average is generated using data from the previous seven days.
Katja Schoissenger, a mother of two small children from Vienna, was among the enraged protestors, holding a banner that said, “Freedom, peace, and humanity.” She expressed her displeasure with the restrictions placed on the unvaccinated. Those who cannot provide confirmation of vaccination or recent recovery from Covid have been barred from public life, both inside and out, since Monday, with police conducting spot checks in restaurants and parks.
Ms. Schoissenger said, “Society is being immensely split and set against a group of individuals who are being locked out of public life and compelled to do things we don’t want to do.” “I have no objections to anyone who want to get vaccinated. It’s a free choice, which I believe is OK and legal, but I’m a young, healthy person, so it’s not a concern for me.”
Austria has one of the highest rates of non-vaccination in Europe, with more than one-third of the population unvaccinated. As a consequence, the number of new infections has risen dramatically in recent weeks, reaching a fresh high of 15,809 cases recorded on Saturday.
Austria’s health system is being strained by the number of individuals who have not been vaccinated. According to the Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, daily fatalities have surged from single digits in late September to more over 40.
The populist Freedom Party, which has been vocal in its opposition to the government’s coronavirus limitations for the last 18 months, assisted in organizing Saturday’s demonstrations, which drew far-right organizations and conspiracy theorists from throughout the nation and neighboring Germany.
At a demonstration on Heldenplatz, regional party chairman Udo Landbauer addressed the gathering, “We are all Austrians, whether we are vaccinated or not vaccinated.” “We have rights, and we will continue to scream until we reclaim our fundamental rights.”
A demonstration against Italy’s so-called Green Pass drew a few thousand people to the Circus Maximus in Rome on Saturday. Credit… Shutterstock/EPA/Massimo Percossi
On the 18th weekend in a row, demonstrators gathered in Milan and Rome on Saturday evening to oppose Italy’s coronavirus health pass. Organizers believed that a good performance was required to establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
However, the low turnout in Rome — a few thousand vaccine skeptics decrying “dictatorship” at a protest at the Circus Maximus — and demonstrators’ inability to dominate, or even reach, squares where they didn’t have a permit, once again demonstrated that opponents of the health pass are a small minority, not a powerful movement.
Despite this, cops were out in force to protect businesses and prevent violence. Store owners have complained that the demonstrations are disrupting business, particularly as the holiday season approaches.
The protests have dwindled after a big gathering in Rome in October was hijacked by violent neofascists and a spurt of action in Trieste, a northern port city. Early in the pandemic, Italy saw one of the worst outbreaks in the world, and by now, the majority of the Italian population has embraced vaccination. While the nation is seeing a portion of the Europe-wide spike in cases, the increase in the country’s caseload has been minor.
Source: Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). The daily average is generated using data from the previous seven days.
Italy’s success in reducing Covid numbers, according to Roberto Burioni, a leading virologist at San Raffaele University in Milan, is due in part to an aggressive vaccination campaign — more than 73 percent of the population has been fully inoculated — and in part to early intervention with the health pass. He claims that requiring that credential, known as a Green Pass, has helped Italy to avoid more harsh measures, such as Austria’s upcoming statewide shutdown.
Mr. Burioni also said that the severe requirements of the Green Pass, which is necessary for access into pubs and clubs, had prompted Italy’s youth to get vaccinated.
“What’s astonishing is the vaccination percentage for those between the ages of 19 and 29,” he added, estimating it to be around 84 percent. “It’s quite high.”
The government announced progress in providing third vaccination doses to individuals on Friday, with 160,000 doses delivered in 24 hours, as Italian authorities continued to encourage people to be immunized against the virus. However, in a nation of little over 60 million people, over 6.7 million Italians over the age of 12 are still unvaccinated.
The Green Pass was the worst anti-vaccination legislation in Europe when it was adopted last month, requiring the whole Italian workforce to be vaccinated, have recovered from the virus, or have numerous negative tests in order to receive a wage.
The administration has said that it has no intentions to make the pass more difficult. However, several senior ministers and legislators in the country’s northern regions, which share a border with Austria and other countries where cases are on the rise, are pushing to eliminate the swab option, thus requiring vaccines.
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In the Netherlands, rioters clash with police over covid measures.
Hundreds of activists set fire to the streets of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in protest of the country’s partial lockdown and plans to enact a legislation enabling companies to reject unvaccinated persons. Police fired warning shots and deployed water cannons against the rioters.
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Hundreds of activists set fire to the streets of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in protest of the country’s partial lockdown and plans to enact a legislation enabling companies to reject unvaccinated persons. Police fired warning shots and deployed water cannons against the rioters. Vln Nieuws/EPA/Shutterstock/CreditCredit…Vln Nieuws/EPA/Shutterstock/Shutterstock/Shutterstock/Shutter
On Saturday, Austrians came to the streets to protest a recently announced statewide lockdown and a proposal to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory, with protesters also gathering in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. At a demonstration against Covid measures in the Netherlands the night before, rioters set fire to the streets of Rotterdam and assaulted police officers.
A year and a half after the coronavirus raced across Europe, causing widespread devastation and requiring severe lockdowns, the continent is once again at the core of the epidemic. As governments resort to policies that restrict public life and implement vaccine mandates, demonstrations against such restrictions are on the rise.
With the number of cases on the rise and no antiviral medications available to treat the coronavirus, governments have increased their pleas for people to be vaccinated, including booster doses. They’ve also changed from optional to required measures as they lose tolerance with those who refuse to get vaccinated.
The public’s dissatisfaction looks to be rising on both sides. Although recent anti-vaccine rallies in France and Italy have died down, they have resurfaced in the Netherlands, where a three-week partial lockdown is in place to combat a fourth wave of coronavirus illnesses.
In Europe, the middle section of the continent has the largest number of instances. Each day, over 10,000 cases are reported in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, with infection rates particularly high in Hungary and Croatia. The Netherlands and Belgium have comparable case levels.
Police in Rotterdam fired warning shots and deployed water cannons on hundreds of protestors who were protesting the country’s influenza restrictions on Friday night. In what the city’s mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, characterized as a “orgy of violence,” seven people were hurt and scores were jailed.
Thousands of people protested in Austria’s capital, Vienna, on Saturday, clashing with police over a vaccine requirement that will take effect in February and a statewide lockdown that will begin on Monday.
Those efforts, which were revealed on Friday and would have been inconceivable just a few months ago, are the most aggressive measures adopted in a Western democracy to combat the epidemic in recent memory. The Austrian populist Freedom Party, which called for the demonstrations on Saturday, likened them to dictatorial regulations.
Lockdowns will be implemented in several of the states with the worst levels of infection in neighboring Germany, where case counts have risen sharply in recent weeks, mostly among children, teens, and unvaccinated adults. Unvaccinated people are already subject to limitations.
On the question of whether the country’s countrywide lockdown may be resumed, interim health minister Jens Spahn said on Friday that “nothing should be ruled out.”
Portugal’s prime minister said on Friday that new lockdown restrictions may be imposed, and the Czech Republic, which is experiencing its highest caseload since the pandemic began, will begin requiring proof of vaccination or recent recovery from the virus for entry into restaurants, bars, and hair salons on Monday.
In the Netherlands, the government has said that it intends to pass legislation enabling companies to reject persons who have not been vaccinated, even if they have tested negative.
— Melissa Eddy and Elian Peltier
Some government officials are plotting a strategy to eradicate the use of masks. Credit… Associated Press/Nam Y. Huh
Some of the most heated political discussions in America have been battled over a practically weightless piece of fabric: the face mask, throughout the tumult of the previous two years, which included a deadly virus, huge layoffs, an unpleasant presidential race, and an assault on the United States Capitol.
Face masks were sluggish to catch on as a way to restrict the spread of the coronavirus in the United States. When they did, masks became a powerful emblem of the epidemic, turning from a common-sense public health precaution to a political flashpoint and a conspicuous reminder that life was far from normal.
With the summer’s Delta spike in the rearview mirror and school-age children being vaccinated, many Americans are asking when the masks will be off.
Dr. Stephen Luby, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiology from Stanford University, stated, “The best research does support mask-wearing as a reasonable technique to minimize Covid-19.” “The question is, how long do we do this for, and how many different settings do we do it in?” “Do we all wear masks for the rest of our lives?” he said.
Some government officials are already plotting a course of action. Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., said on Tuesday that the need for wearing an indoor mask will be relaxed. The following day, Florida legislators enacted a measure prohibiting school mask regulations, which had previously been abandoned by certain districts.
In an email, Eric Adams, the mayor-elect of New York City, said that he “wants to withdraw the mask rule in schools when health authorities deem it is safe.”
Experts believe the time has not yet arrived.
“We haven’t yet defeated this virus,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We may be sick of Covid and Covid limitations, as well as public health precautions, but this illness is far from through with us.”
Last month, Abuoi Awan, 28, was seen in a South Sudanese hospital clutching her underweight 9-day-old baby. Credit… The New York Times’ Lynsey Addario
Last month, a UNICEF vaccine campaign team came in a tiny speedboat in the flooded community of Wernyol, not far from South Sudan’s capital, to meet with elders beneath a tree on a little area of dry ground.
The team had prepared a briefing sheet regarding coronavirus and the vaccine in order to anticipate what they expected would be a barrage of questions, but the elders’ main concern was when the rains would stop. Rain has seemed to be the only thing some South Sudanese have ever known in recent years. As a consequence, sections of South Sudan have seen their worst floods in six decades, impacting almost a third of the nation.
The coronavirus epidemic is not on the minds of most of the 11 million people who live in this landlocked country in east central Africa, one of the poorest nations on the planet.
Source: Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). The daily average is generated using data from the previous seven days.
Many people have left Wernyol and neighboring villages in Jonglei state, while those who have stayed have lost their harvests, cattle, and houses. Malnutrition and sickness are common since fish is nearly the only meal available.
The village chief, James Kuir Bior, 50, in Pawel, another submerged community a few hours down a river that was just a few years ago a road, was a bit suspicious of the U.N. representatives about how the coronavirus vaccine stood up against all the village’s other requirements.
Mr. Bior remarked, as a thin layer of clouds above hinted at further rain, “We need medications and nets.” “Right now, all we can think of is getting out of this deluge.”
Last year, I was in line for groceries in Waltham, Massachusetts. According to a recent research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, women who received Covid-19 when they gave birth were almost twice as likely to suffer a stillbirth. Credit… Associated Press/Charles Krupa
According to a Centers for Disease Control study released on Friday, pregnant women who had Covid-19 when they delivered their babies were nearly twice as likely to have a stillbirth as healthy women who did not have Covid. The study looked at more than 1.2 million deliveries in the United States from March 2020 to September 2021.
Stillbirths were uncommon overall, accounting for less than 1% of all births, but 1.26 percent of the 21,653 women who had Covid had a stillbirth, compared to 0.64 percent of women who did not have Covid. Women using Covid were 1.9 times more likely than healthy women to have a stillbirth, even after adjustments were made to account for differences between the groups.
Since the Delta version has been prominent, the risk of stillbirth has been significantly greater for women taking Covid: Before July, when Delta became prominent, the chance of stillbirth for women with Covid was 1.5 times higher than that of healthy women. From July through September, the risk was four times higher. During the time when Delta was prevalent, as many as 2.7 percent of deliveries to women on Covid were stillbirths.
“There had been reports indicating an increased risk, but stillbirths are difficult to analyze since they are fortunately rare,” said Dr. Denise Jamieson, Emory Healthcare’s head of gynecology and obstetrics. “This is some of the most compelling evidence of increased risk, and arguably the most compelling research pointing to particular Delta hazards.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly advises pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as women planning or trying to become pregnant, to get vaccinated against Covid. However, despite the fact that pregnancy is on the C.D.C.’s list of health conditions that increase the risk of severe disease, resistance has been strong.
Pregnant women who are symptomatic are more than twice as likely as other symptomatic patients to need intensive care or measures such as mechanical breathing, and they may be more likely to die, according to studies. They are also more prone to give birth prematurely.
Another C.D.C. research released on Wednesday detailed the instances of 15 pregnant women in Mississippi who died of Covid during or soon after their pregnancy, including six who died before the Delta variety became prominent and nine who died between July and October when Delta was dominant.
Nine Black women, three white women, and three Hispanic women were among those that perished. The average age was 30 years old. Fourteen of the ladies had medical issues, and none of them had been immunized. Five of the fatalities happened prior to the availability of vaccines.
On October 1, pubs and nightclubs reopened in Lisbon. Credit… Associated Press/Armando Franca
Following the worst Covid statistics in months, Portugal’s government is poised to impose further restrictions.
Infections are on the rise in the country, which has one of Europe’s highest coronavirus vaccination rates, as winter approaches and more people stay indoors, despite the fact that inoculations have been shown to significantly reduce infection severity and hospitalization in intensive-care units, as well as death from the virus.
“Unfortunately, the epidemic is still ongoing,” Prime Minister António Costa stated on Twitter.
Mr. Costa met with the country’s top health specialists for the first time in two months on Friday to discuss implementing additional measures. He said that legislators will be provided with the regulations early next week.
Source: Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). The daily average is generated using data from the previous seven days.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stated this week that it was “obvious” that Portugal needs to reintroduce the rule that people wear face masks in public places outside. Face coverings are now required on public transportation, in retail malls, and in public areas such as music halls. Masks are also mandatory for all bar and restaurant personnel.
Nonetheless, Mr. Costa recently said that his administration does not want to reinstate the state of emergency that existed at the start of this year, when Lisbon’s hospitals were swamped with Covid-19 patients. People with the status were only permitted to leave their homes in extraordinary situations and were prohibited from traveling outside of their communities.
Portugal’s Covid infection rate has risen lately, with 2,371 new cases reported on Friday, while the country’s statistics are still significantly lower than they were earlier this year. Portugal was reporting over 10,000 cases each day in January, an emergency scenario that forced the government to seek help from other nations, notably Germany.
On Saturday, protesters in Melbourne, Australia, demonstrated against vaccination mandates and pandemic restrictions. Credit… Shutterstock/Darren England/EPA
Thousands of people protested pandemic restrictions and vaccination requirements in Melbourne and other Australian cities on Saturday.
Protesters gathered outside the state legislature in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria State, and marched through the major business area. They chanted “No more mandates” and “Kill the Bill” while waving Australian flags.
It was the latest protest in a week of rising demonstrations against a controversial pandemic powers law that the state administration is attempting to approve within the next month. The law would extend a state of emergency that was supposed to expire on Dec. 15, enabling authorities to enforce restrictions such as lockdowns, masking procedures, and vaccine obligations.
It would also empower the state government to issue additional pandemic orders if it believes they are necessary to safeguard public health. The bill’s vast reach has been criticized by the Liberal Party and various legal and human rights organizations.
Source: Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). The daily average is generated using data from the previous seven days.
Protesters have been camping outside Victoria’s Capitol for the last week as the government works to enact the measure. Lawmakers who favor the bill have received death threats and have been harassed.
Vaccination regulations were also a target of Saturday’s demonstrations. Although Australia does not have a national vaccine mandate, several states have made immunization necessary for some employees, such as those in construction, education, and health care. Unvaccinated persons are not permitted to dine in restaurants or shop unless they are purchasing vital items such as food and medication in Victoria.
On Saturday, pro-vaccination activists held a modest rally in Melbourne’s central business area. The cops separated the two groups.
Anti-vaccine protests were also held in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney, Australia’s largest city.
Craig Kelly, a federal senator who left the ruling Liberal Party this year after Prime Minister Scott Morrison chastised him for propagating anti-vaccination falsehoods and advocating untested coronavirus therapies, was among those in Sydney. He spoke to hundreds of anti-vaccination demonstrators in a park in Sydney’s central business district on Saturday.
“We are no longer free when governments implement vaccination passports,” he stated. “We are not in a free society; we are in a prison camp.”
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, approved a C.D.C. panel’s recommendation that all adults receive booster injections on Friday. Credit… The New York Times’ Stefani Reynolds
The CDC on Friday recommended booster injections of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines for all adults, bringing tens of millions of individuals who have already been completely vaccinated one step closer to a third shot.
Six months following the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, boosters are suggested. Boosters should be ready this weekend as a result of this last stage, enabling many Americans to be vaccinated before the Thanksgiving break.
Everyone 50 and older, most of whom have additional risk factors, as well as those 18 and older living in long-term care institutions “should” obtain a booster, according to the revised guidelines. Other Americans aged 18 and up “may” choose one if they so want, depending on their own risk and reward.
Several experts said at the conference that they thought the more straightforward age-based rules would help to clarify who is eligible for the additional injections.
The booster injections were unanimously approved by a C.D.C. advisory group. The agency’s head, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, subsequently publicly approved the suggestion. The suggestions are in line with President Biden’s August commitment that all adults would be eligible for further dosages.
The government is banking that booster doses will shore up what some have described as fading immunity among the fully vaccinated, in an attempt to reduce even a faint replay of last winter’s horrors.
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved boosters of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for all adults, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides the recommendations that the medical profession follows.
Several states have recently expanded booster access to all adults on their own.
Dr. Sam Posner, interim director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, addressed the panelists, acknowledging that earlier eligibility categories “were complex to execute” and expressing optimism that streamlining them “would lessen misunderstanding.”
Coronavirus infections are on the rise again after a short hiatus, especially in sections of the nation where the milder weather is driving people inside. According to research, the injections may help prevent at least certain infections, especially in the elderly and those with specific medical problems.
The decision by the C.D.C. comes as Americans prepare to spend the holidays with family and friends. Given the tens of millions of Americans who have yet to get a single dose of vaccine, Christmas travel and get-togethers might result in a spike in cases, as they did last year.
In an effort to control new outbreaks of diseases, some European governments are now distributing boosters to all people. France has gone so far as to require booster injections for those over the age of 65 who want to get a health pass that allows them to visit public places.
Dan Levin and Noah Weiland contributed reporting.
This month’s Kill Alters event at Trans Pecos in Brooklyn drew a crowd of music aficionados. Credit… The New York Times’ Lanna Apisukh
People were dancing to techno and socialising with strangers inside Good Room, a nightclub in Brooklyn, as rain poured down on a line of partygoers that snaked down the street outside. The event was sold out on a Friday night.
“It’s wonderful to know places like this still exist,” Caitlin Widener, 33, said as she stood near the bar, thinking about what she’d missed about Good Room during its almost 18-month closure due to the epidemic.
Although things have returned to normal for the club’s clients, the club, which reopened in September, is still suffering. According to Josh Houtkin, the Good Room’s booking director, its management must still pay 18 months of overdue rent, maintenance, and reopening fees, which total about $500,000.
The Good Room isn’t the only one. Many clubs in New York City that survived the epidemic are again attracting enormous audiences, but they are nonetheless saddled with debt and uncertain fates. Many businesses have had to reconsider their business methods, while others have gone out of business completely.
The senior executive director of New York City’s Office of Nightlife, Ariel Palitz, stated, “This business is important to our economic and cultural well-being.” “It is the city’s backbone, and without it, the city would not be able to recover.”
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