{"id":246623,"date":"2021-12-05T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246623"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T07:39:44","slug":"more-than-40000-march-in-vienna-against-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246623","title":{"rendered":"More than 40,000 march in Vienna against coronavirus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 Dec 4, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>More than 40,000 people marched through Vienna on Saturday to protest against a lockdown and plans to make vaccinations compulsory to curb the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Faced with a surge in infections, the government last month made Austria the first country in Western Europe to reimpose a lockdown and said it would make vaccinations mandatory from February.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">People carried signs saying: &#8220;I will decide for myself&#8221;, &#8220;Make Austria Great Again&#8221;, and &#8220;New Elections&#8221; &#8211; a nod to the political turmoil that has seen three chancellors within two months &#8211; as crowds gathered. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/austrias-stunned-conservatives-meet-pick-leader-party-country-2021-12-03\/\">read more <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;I am here because I am against forced vaccinations. I am for human rights, and the violation of human rights should be stopped,&#8221; one protester told Reuters Television.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">&#8220;We are protecting our children,&#8221; said another.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,200 police officers deployed to handle scattered protests that merged into a march on the central Ring boulevard.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">Police put the size of the protest at over 40,000, while around 1,500 staged counterprotests.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-7\">Officers used pepper spray against some protesters who aimed fireworks at police, and detained some marchers, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-8\">A parliamentary committee this week approved doubling the length of the lockdown to 20 days, which the government has said is the longest it will last. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/austria-extends-covid-19-lockdown-by-10-days-2021-11-30\/\">read more <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-9\">Austria, a country of 8.9 million people, has <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19-dashboard.ages.at\/?l=en\">reported<\/a> nearly 1.2 million coronavirus cases and more than 12,000 COVID-19-linked deaths since the pandemic began last year.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-10\">New cases have been falling since the start of the lockdown, whose terms make exception for protests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/thousands-march-vienna-against-coronavirus-lockdown-2021-12-04\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest against plans to make vaccination compulsory in Austria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":246625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246623\/revisions\/246624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}