Almost 40,000 people have taken to the streets across Austria to protest COVID-19 measures and plans to make vaccination mandatory.
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The largest of the demonstrations took place in Graz on Saturday.
Police said that up to 30,000 people marched through Austria's second-largest city chanting "Peace, freedom, no dictatorship."
Demonstrations also took place in St Poelten, Klagenfurt and Innsbruck. They were largely peaceful, although many people were reported for not wearing masks.
The Austrian government wants to introduce a general vaccination requirement in February, with a draft law to be presented in the second week of December.
A lockdown has been in effect across the country since last Monday.
Mass demonstrations against the measures took place in Vienna last weekend.
In Austria, the seven-day incidence has ebbed slightly in recent days, coming in on Saturday at 1030 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
Australian Associated Press