Furthermore, it is mostly a booster vaccination, only about ten percent of the injections are first sticks. Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) is now open to vaccination premiums.
Anything that helps to get more people to vaccinate before the mandatory vaccination comes into effect is “a positive signal,” said Nehammer on Wednesday to the Austrian news agency APA. Most recently, the opposition SPÖ had demanded a 500 euro voucher for everyone who contributed to a higher vaccination rate with the third trick. It is currently just under 71 percent.
He considers it a “very good approach” to motivate vaccination in a positive way – “at what level and in what form, the experts should think about it,” said Nehammer.
Meanwhile, the authorities fear that the mandatory vaccination planned from February will further drive radicalization among Corona skeptics. There is a “radical individualism” spreading, which is noticeable in social media in uninhibited language, said the head of the State Security and Intelligence Service (DSN), Omar Haijawi-Pirchner. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) is particularly concerned about the safety of the medical staff, who are increasingly exposed to intimidation and abuse.