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Austria went into a new pandemic lockdown at midnight on Sunday night - but only for its unvaccinated population. It's in response to a record surge in COVID-19 cases that the government says threatens to overwhelm intensive care units. For ten days, millions of people will be required to stay at home - unless their journey is deemed essential. Crowds took to the streets of the capital, Vienna, to protest what they say is a vaccine mandate by the back door. They chanted for their freedom outside a fortified Chancellery - but under the new measures they will have to stay home. The protestors were there to make their hostility to the new lockdown heard. But in a country entering a fourth wave of the COVID pandemic - not all are opposed. Speaking on Sunday the country's Interior Minister Karl Nehammer had a stern warning to the Austrian people. 63 percent of the population have currently had both jabs, with Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg calling on those still unvaccinated to take up th
