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Thousands of protesters gathered in Vienna on Saturday after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown beginning Monday to contain the country s skyrocketing coronavirus infections. The far-right opposition Freedom Party was among those who have called for the protest and vowed to combat the new restrictions.The Austrian lockdown will start early Monday. Initially it will last for 10 days and then it be reevaluated. At most it will last for 20 days, officials said. Most stores will close and cultural events will be canceled. People will be able to leave their homes only for certain specific reasons, including buying groceries, going to the doctor or exercising. The Austrian government also said starting February 1, the Alpine nation will make vaccinations mandatory. As the march kicked off on Vienna s Heldenplatz, thousands of protesters gathered on the massive square. About 1,300 police officers air max 96 were on duty. They used loudspeakers to tell protesters masks w nike dunk ere required, but most didn t wear them. Chanting Resistance! and blowing whistles, protesters moved slowly down the city s inner ring road. Many waved Austrian flags and carried signs mocking government leaders like Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg and Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein. Demonstrators hold up a banner that reads, The best slave is one that thinks they are free as they take part in a rally measures taken to curb the coron adidas campus avirus pandemic, in Vienna, Austria on Bpfs Albanian Anti-Gov t Protest Kills 3, Injures 55
Exit polls showed pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych with a narrow lead in Ukraine s presidential runoff, a result that would close the book on Ukraine s pro-Western Orange Revolution but raise the risk of postelection unrest.Yanukovych went ahead and declared victory, but his opponent Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a leader of Orange forces, rejected the exit poll data and said Sunday s race was too close to call. It is too soon to draw any conclusions, she said, urging supporters to fight for every ballot.Ukraine s Central Election Commission reported early Monday that opposition leader Yanukovych was leading Tymoshenko by 51.3 percent to 43.3 percent with 27.4 percent of the vote counted.The National Election Poll exit survey predicted that after the count, Yanukovych would capture 48.5 percent of the vote to 45.7 percent for Tymosh stanley kubek enko, with other voters mostly choosing Against all. The 2.8 percentage point gap is only slightly larger than the NEP s margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percent. The NEP poll initially showed Yanukovych with a 3.2 percentage point lead, but the later released revised figures. All other major exit po stanley cup lls had Yanukovych winning, some by larger margins.The race narrowed sharply from the first round vote on Jan. 17, when Yanukovych held a 10 percent lead.At the Yanukovych camp, top party officials broke into rapturous applause as they heard the exit polls announced, and Anna German, deputy head of stanley cup Yanukovych s Party of Regions,
