{"id":1196310,"date":"2022-01-07T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196310"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:04:53","slug":"austria-to-deactivate-covid-passes-after-six-months-in-bid-to-push-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austria-to-deactivate-covid-passes-after-six-months-in-bid-to-push-boosters\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria to Deactivate COVID Passes After Six Months in Bid to Push Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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<!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237049712-1-e1641483640864-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Austria is to begin deactivating COVID passes after six months from February in an effort to increase the population\u2019s adoption of booster jabs.<\/p>\n<p>In order to increase the uptake of booster vaccinations in the country, Austria is to begin cancelling all COVID passes after six months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>New measures announced on Thursday also include the mandatory wearing of FFP2 (N95 Masks) in some outdoor locations, as well as a tightening of restrictions against unvaccinated, unrecovered individuals in retail settings.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2133461-Gruener-Pass-nur-mehr-sechs-Monate-gueltig.html\">report<\/a> by <em>Wiener Zeitung<\/em>, \u201cGreen Passes\u201d issued in the country will start expiring after six months after the person\u2019s last dose from February as a result of a government decision on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Having been shortened down from nine months, the significant reduction in the pass validity period was seemingly done in an effort to increase the uptake of booster jabs, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2597293\">report<\/a> by&nbsp;<em>Kronen Zeitung<\/em>, with the nation\u2019s vaccination rate having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2596699\">slid<\/a> in recent days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The announcement comes not long after all those in the country who received a single, not double dose vaccination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/31\/austria-to-extend-segregation-lockdown-for-unvaccinated-due-to-omicron-variant\/\">lost their COVID passes<\/a>, with all certs related to one-dose inoculations having expired on January 3rd by government decree.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have lost their Green Pass, the only way to get the document reissued is through receiving a Chinese Coronavirus booster jab.<\/p>\n<p>Other measures announced on Thursday include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2133461-Gruener-Pass-nur-mehr-sechs-Monate-gueltig.html\">mandatory<\/a> wearing of FFP2 (N95) masks in outdoor settings where 2-meter distances between people cannot be maintained, as well as even tighter COVID pass restrictions in retail settings.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, Austrian retailers had previously only had to do random spot-checks for proof of vaccination or recovery in order to ensure no one without a Green Pass \u2014 such as many unvaccinated individuals \u2014 were shopping on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>From January 11th however, retailers will have to check all those entering the premises for Green Passes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2133461-Gruener-Pass-nur-mehr-sechs-Monate-gueltig.html\">according<\/a> to <em>Wiener Zeitung<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Authoritarian Austria: Protesters Party in Central Vienna in Defiance of New Year\u2019s Eve Lockdown<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dKCxokYx0b\">https:\/\/t.co\/dKCxokYx0b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1477353938546425857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Austria\u2019s unvaccinated population are currently under a strict lockdown, as part of measures described by one politician as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/15\/corona-apartheid-austria-imposes-stay-at-home-lockdown-unvaccinated\/\">corona apartheid<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>While the measures in place against the unjabbed must be renewed every 10 days under Austrian law, the government has previously announced that the lockdowns would continue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">in perpetuity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, authorities plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">implement<\/a> a regime of mandatory vaccination from February, with those who remain unjabbed after that point facing fines, as well as possible imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the restrictions, thousands of Austrians have taken to the streets in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/20\/thousands-protest-upcoming-lockdown-in-vienna\/\">protests<\/a>, with demonstrations in the capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/01\/authoritarian-austria-protesters-party-in-central-vienna-in-defiance-of-new-years-eve-lockdown\/\">Vienna<\/a>, in particular, being well attended.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian government has taken decisive measures in response to dissent in the country, however, with the nation\u2019s then-Interior Minister, Karl Nehammer, denouncing signs of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/22\/austrian-government-warns-of-radicalisation-after-weekend-of-lockdown-protests\/\">radicalisation<\/a>\u201d among protesters, despite low levels of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Nehammer is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/interior-minister-karl-nehammer-austria-chancellor\/\">now<\/a> the country\u2019s chancellor after the previous government head\u2019s shock resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Austrian authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/06\/austria-raids-24-houses-in-connection-to-fake-vaccine-certificates\/\">raided 24 homes<\/a> across the country on Wednesday in a crackdown on a network allegedly selling fake vaccine certs online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic has given rise to new forms of crime,\u201d said Interior Minister Gerhard Karner in relation to the raids. \u201cThe Federal Criminal Police Office and the State Criminal Police Offices are facing up to these tasks through consistent and structured investigations, in close cooperation with the health authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria is to begin deactivating COVID passes after six months from February in an effort to increase the population\u2019s adoption of booster jabs. 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