The Government of Austria has just announced the suspension, for at least three months, of the rule that established compulsory vaccination for those over 18 years of age as a general rule, against covid.
The rule, which was announced on February 1, has not actually been deployed, as it was scheduled to start being applied next week.
A parliamentary commission had to analyze whether this norm fitted into the Austrian Constitution. The report of these legal and health experts denounced the attack on the fundamental rights of the population that putting this measure into operation would entail, for which the Minister of Constitutional Affairs, Karoline Edstadtler, has indicated that it was necessary to make this law more flexible, suspending it for the moment. “We came to the conclusion that… the vaccination mandate must be suspended, in accordance with the principle of proportionality.” “At the moment, many reasons point that this interference with fundamental rights is not justified; At the moment, due to the dominant variant that we have now, we don’t see any need to implement this vaccination mandate.”
The police would begin to review the vaccination status from next week, announcing penalties that could reach up to 600 euros in case of not having justification for not getting vaccinated (may reach 3,600 euros in case of appeal).
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