ORF starts lottery: Austria: Vaccinated people can win a house
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
ORF starts lottery
Austria: Vaccinated people can win a house
The bratwurst as a vaccination bonus worked well in all of Germany, in Austria the ORF is now trying the lottery: until the 20th of December. First, second and third vaccinations count.
With an vaccination lottery, the Austrian broadcaster ORF wants to motivate skeptics to get a corona vaccination. Participants are the news agency APA, according to Austria, people over the age of 18 who were or will be vaccinated against Covid-19 between October 1 and December 20. Prizes include a prefabricated single-family house, television and an electric car.
A total of almost a thousand material prizes will be auctioned. Anyone who is vaccinated during the participation period and himself has a chance of winning on the website registered – regardless of whether the vaccination is the first, second or third vaccination against Covid-19. The winners are to be announced on Christmas Eve in the ORF program “Licht ins Dunkel”.
Before that, the public broadcaster will call for participation in the lottery and vaccination on all of its channels. “Millions of people in Austria trust the work of ORF journalists every day, who give their best 24 hours a day in all media to inform dying Austrians on the basis of scientific findings,” said ORF General Director Alexander Wrabetz. “But education and information are sometimes not enough to anchor the indispensable contribution of vaccination to fighting pandemics to as many people as possible,” added. The lottery should create “additional motivation for those willing to vaccinate”. At the same time it is “a big thank you to everyone who has already had a vaccination or a boost”.
In Austria, due to the dramatically high number of corona infections, a general lockdown has been in effect again since Monday. The hospitals in the country recorded more than 3,000 corona patients for the first time on Monday, who will be treated as inpatients. At 66 percent, the vaccination rate is below the European average.