Slovakia declared a 90-day state of emergency and a two-week lockdown following a spike in COVID-19 cases that saw the country’s seven-day average of cases rise above 10,000.
The central European country is currently in the midst of the world’s fastest rise in infections, and the measures, which include closing all non-essential stores, as well as bars and restaurants, are meant to help the struggling healthcare system.
Austria has already put a total lockdown in place as of Monday, November 22, and it is going to make vaccination mandatory from February 1 of next year, making it the first country in the world to do so.
Source: Euronews
