With SNP ministers set to make a decision on stricter vaccine passports on Tuesday, David Leask looks at how Europe has reacted to similar hardline Covid-19 policies
As days shorten and temperatures fall, the virus has started to spread again.
Across Europe, cases of – and deaths by – Covid are on the rise as we enter a third pandemic winter.
Earlier this month, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the continent warned half a million more lives may be lost by February.
“We must change our tactics,” Hans Kluge declared, “from reacting to surges of Covid-19 to preventing them from happening in the first place.”
And so governments – at least many of them – have started to swing behind more and more restrictions, especially for the unvaccinated.
Some countries have taken what, politically, are pretty tough and dramatic decisions.
Take Austria. It first declared what amounted to a lockdown for those who have not been…
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