Corona vaccination campaign started in Austria a year ago
A year ago, on December 27, 2020, the first Austrians were vaccinated against the coronavirus. At that time, risk patients over 80 years of age made the start at a special outpatient clinic at MedUni Vienna. Austria started immunization at the same time as other EU countries. Since then, 74 percent of the population has quickly received at least the first dose. But because the vaccination rate in Austria is too low, the government will make vaccination compulsory from 14 years of age from February 2022.
The compulsory vaccination had recently triggered violent protests from parts of the population and a debate against vaccinators. Five vaccines have now been approved in Austria: the vaccines from BioNTech / Pfizer and Moderna based on the new mRNA technology, the vector vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson and the recombinant protein vaccine from Novavax. By Christmas day, 6,589,817 or 73.8 percent had received at least one vaccination. 6,277,652 people and thus 70.3 percent of Austrians have valid vaccination protection. According to the Ministry of Health and the Interior, 3,537,858 people or 39.6 percent of the population have already received the third stitch.
Accessed on December 26th, 2021 at 11:51 am on https://www.sn.at/panorama/oesterreich/vor-einem-jahr-startete-in-oesterreich-corona-impfaktion-114587770