Coronavirus: Tens of thousands protest in Austria against nationwide lockdown

Tens of thousands of people, many of them far-right supporters, protested in Vienna on Saturday against coronavirus restrictions a day after Austria’s government announced a new nationwide lockdown and said vaccines would be made compulsory next year.Whistling, blowing horns and banging drums, crowds streamed into Heroes’ Square in front of the Hofburg, the former imperial palace in central Vienna, in the early afternoon, one of several protest locations.Many demonstrators waved Austrian flags…

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