By: EFE
By: EFE
Nails 30,000 person s commemorated in Vienna at almost 13, 500 victims that the coronavirus has been claimed in Austria since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 .
The demonstration, which took place in silence along the Ringstrasse avenue, the main thoroughfare of the Austrian capital, was a counterpoint to the aggressive and sometimes even violent protests organized in the last weeks by critics with the management of the pandemic.
In wakefulness, tens of thousands of people , including many families with children, raised candles or lights of all kinds to the sky for ten minutes to commemorate the people who died from Covid- 19 .
At the end of the concentration they are assisted They thanked the health personnel for their work with loud applause.
Dozens of civil, religious and human rights organizations supported the initiative, which came after numerous demonstrations by critics and deniers of the pandemic , which managed to bring together tens of thousands of people in Vienna on several occasions.
Austria was one of the countries in November most affected by the pandemic in Europe , so the conservative-environmental government had to introduce last day 22 a series of restrictions and a general lockdown that gradually ended this week throughout the country.
The pace of contagion with covid – 19 it was markedly reduced since although the Austrian experts and warn the arrival of omicron, the new variant of the virus, much more contagious than the previous one (delta).
Austria e s for now the only European country that will introduce , next February, the mandatory vaccine against Covid – 19.
People who fail to comply with this obligation will face fines of up to 3, 500 euros (about 4, 050 Dollars).
About 70% of the Austrian population has vaccinated so far with the full regimen, one third even with the booster vaccine.
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