Today, March 9, 2022, the Austrian government decided in the Council of Ministers that compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus will be suspended.
Actually, violations of the obligation should have been punished from mid-March, but Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) announced that the vaccination requirement for the current Omicron variant was not proportionate. The new Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) announced that the situation would be decided again in three months.
According to the law, compulsory vaccination has been in effect in Austria since the beginning of February 2022, but has not yet been checked by the authorities or even enforced with punitive measures. Actually, unvaccinated people should be punished from March 15th (Phase 2).
At least that's what the Austrian federal government's step-by-step plan for compulsory vaccination provides for. Today the first report of the expert commission to evaluate compulsory vaccination was presented to the Council of Ministers. The commission recommends keeping the vaccination requirement as such, but suspending the penalties planned for mid-March and only re-evaluating them in three months, i.e. in June 2022. This phase 2 will not come into force for the time being.
The commission report (Federal Chancellery: First report on the accompanying monitoring of compulsory vaccination against COVID-19) was published at the time of the press event.
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