Authorities in both Austria and France have finally lifted almost all remaining COVID-19 lockdown rules in place in their countries. After having used a wide variety of coercive measures to try and force individuals to get vaccinated, both France and
The European Union’s parliament has voted to extend the bloc’s regime of COVID passes until 2023 despite harsh criticism from some elected representatives.
BERLIN (AP) – A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.
Scotland’s government has gone back on its word regarding the scrapping of COVID rules, keeping forced mask wearing until at least April.
After months filled with controversy, France has finally dropped its regime of COVID vaccination passes, as well as forced mask-wearing.
After a short yet controversial reign, France’s regime of vaccine passes is set to be “suspended” by mid-March.
In what amounts to a seismic u-turn in policy, Austria is to relax all ‘Corona Apartheid’ rules targetting the nation’s unvaccinated, despite having previously promised to keep unjabbed individuals under perpetual lockdown.
Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage has denounced the ‘dire threats’ made by the Trudeau government against Canada’s Freedom Convoy demonstrators, noting that it appears the Canadian Prime Minister is losing the battle on lockdown rules.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been slammed for the use of armoured police vehicles against the banned Paris Freedom Convoy, after nearly 100 were arrested by police.
Vaccination against the Chinese Coronavirus has become compulsory for all adults in Austria as of Saturday.
France’s Minister of Health has said that the nation’s regime of vaccine passes is likely to be scrapped well before its scheduled end in July.
Sweden’s Prime Minister has announced that the Nordic will be scrapping the internal use of vaccine passes, becoming the latest European nation to escape lockdown.
Austria’s unjabbed have finally been granted a little bit of freedom, with the nation’s ‘Corona Apartheid’ lockdown of the unvaccinated ending today.
550,000 unboosted people are at risk of having their vaccine passes revoked as Austria prepares to change the rules surrounding eligibility.
Nine million unboosted French people are set to lose access to their vaccine passes on February 15, according to one government minister.
Ireland has torn up its regime of vaccine passes after six months, putting an end to discrimination against the unjabbed within the country.
A COVID sea change appears to be occurring in Europe, as both Ireland and France look set to follow England in easing restrictions.
Italy will once again expand its list of active COVID restrictions, with the next set of measures slated to come into force on Thursday.
Outrage has erupted in France over the revelation that the nation’s Education Minister had announced further COVID measures for schools while on vacation in Ibiza.
In what looks like a potential repeat of the Djokovic controversy in Australia, France has declared that unjabbed foreign athletes will not be permitted to play in the country.
The government of Austria presented revised plans for its proposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which will apply to all residents age 18.
An estimated 3,000 Bulgarians gathered in front of the country’s parliament building in Sophia on Wednesday to protest the country’s Chinese coronavirus “vaccine passport” system, with some “briefly scuffl[ing] with police” during the demonstration, Reuters reported.
The Philippine federal government this week ordered local governments across Metro Manila to begin enforcing a public transportation ban on all people not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, meaning anyone who cannot provide proof of coronavirus vaccination may not board buses, trains, boats, or planes in the Philippine national capital region, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Thursday.
Ex-officers up to 70 years of age are being pulled out of retirement in Upper-Austria to help enforce national lockdown rules in the province.
An open letter on behalf of a number of police officers in Austria has asked the nation’s Interior Minister to oppose compulsory vaccination.
Vaccinated and recovered people in one German city will soon be able to wear a special ribbon in order to convey their status to retail workers.
Plain clothes Police are being deployed in Austria to assist in the intensification of COVID restrictions in the country.
Thousands again took the streets in Austria, marking the second day of large protests against the nation’s COVID restrictions.
Over 100,000 took to the streets on Saturday to protest France’s impending vaccine pass regime days after President Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unjabbed.
Austria is to begin deactivating COVID passes after six months from February in an effort to increase the population’s adoption of booster jabs.
Italy has made vaccination against the Chinese Coronavirus mandatory for over-50s while also cracking down on access to workplaces.
The French National Assembly has voted to adopt a law that would implement a new regime of vaccination passes, despite previously blocking the bill twice.
A vote on the implementation of a Vaccination Pass regime in France has been delayed AGAIN shortly after comments emerged revealing Macron wished to ‘piss off’ unjabbed individuals.
Italians travelling on public transport without a vaccine passport could face fines of up to a thousand euros under new restrictions.
Mark Willis, host of SiriusXM’s Road Dog Trucking News, said vaccine mandates will worsen a national shortage of about 80,000 truck drivers.
Labour’s mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who backs continued mask-wearing on public transport, has said, “we may need vaccine passports”.
BERLIN (AP) – German politicians were deeply divided Sunday over a warning by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if COVID-19 infection numbers reach new heights in the coming months.
PARIS (AP) – Some 160,000 people, including far-right activists and members of France’s yellow vest movement, protested Saturday across the country against a bill requiring everyone to have a special virus pass to enter restaurants and mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all health care workers.
