Wed Dec 22, 2021 – 10:45 am ESTWed Dec 22, 2021 – 10:50 am EST
VIENNA (LifeSiteNews) — In the run-up to Austria’s sweeping COVID shot mandate, due to be implemented in February and affecting an estimated 2 million citizens, the government is preparing to harshly police the requirement by enlisting employers to enforce crippling fines on the un-jabbed.
From February 1, Austrian citizens will be required by law to have received a full regimen of COVID-19 shots or face being added to a registry for the un-jabbed, members of which will be subject to hefty fines of up to €3,400 ($4,000), issued every three months, Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein confirmed.
Concerns have been raised by, among others, Austrian politician Susanne Fürst of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) regarding a new amendment to the Administrative Enforcement Act which allows the government to imprison those who refuse to pay COVID fines for up to a year.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews in November, Alexander Tschugguel, an outspoken critic of the totalitarian regime taking over his home country, noted that “the average [monthly net] income in Austria is less than 2,000 euros,” rendering the fines “not affordable for [most] people.”
Fines will continue to be sent to those on the registry until they comply. The measure forms part of a government tactic to push uptake of the jabs in Austria which currently
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