After the government put unvaccinated people under their own lockdown, video out of Austria shows police patrolling shops and highways checking people's vaccination status.

In a move that was confirmed over the weekend, authorities have now imposed a lockdown that only affects the unjabbed, meaning they can only leave their homes for "essential reasons" such as food shopping. 

These measures, which are the first of their kind in the world, impact the roughly 35 per cent of Austrians who haven't had both doses of the vaccine.

The new rules were introduced as a result of a COVID spike and soaring ICU patients (because the vaccine works so well).

Footage out of Austria shows uniformed police patrolling shopping malls checking people's vaccination status against a state database.