Austria said it in addition to lockdown it would require the whole population to be vaccinated from Feb. 1. Party leader Herbert Kickl posted a picture on Facebook with the inscription: "As of today Austria is a dictatorship." Roughly two-thirds of those eligible in Austria are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the lowest rates in western Europe. Asked if Germany could rule out an Austrian-style full lockdown, Spahn said: "We are now in a situation - even if this produces a news alert - where we can't rule anything out. A full lockdown in Germany would be more serious, however.
