Month: June 2021

Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens) addresses the approval of the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds. Until school starts up again, he said, they want a high vaccination coverage rate among young people. In June, he said, there will also be enough vaccine for those who want to be vaccinated. Everyone can be sure that they will get a vaccination if they want it, says the health minister. Vaccination preparedness helps achieve herd immunity sooner, he said. There is enough vaccine in June, Kurz concludes. However, the number of vaccinated…

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From Monday to Tuesday, there were 337 new Corona infections in Austria. Compared to the previous week (398), there are 61 cases less. Thus, the 7-day incidence also decreases slightly. For the first time since September 11 of last year, there are fewer than 5,000 active coronavirus infections in Austria. There were 4,824 active cases, according to Health and Interior Ministry figures (as of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday), down from 4,820 on Sept. 11. By comparison, there were more than 77,000 active cases in Austria at the peak of the second…

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The “3-G rule” – vaccinated, tested or recovered – is supposed to make public life possible again and reduce CoV infections to a minimum. The penalties for not following these guidelines are correspondingly high. If someone presents a falsified test result or vaccination certificate and is caught, it is anything but a trivial offense, experts warn. It is document forgery, punishable by up to one year in prison or up to 720 daily fines, according to police. It is of course also illegal to show valid test results or vaccination…

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