Yes, Austria Announced Compulsory Nationwide COVID-19 Vaccination

Posted on AllSides November 22nd, 2021
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ANALYSIS

In November 2021, social media posts and news reports claimed that Austria’s federal government had broken new ground in its efforts to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic — reportedly announcing a universal, mandatory vaccination program, to begin in early 2022. 

Those reports were largely accurate, and we are issuing a rating of “True.” In a press conference on the afternoon of Nov. 19, the country’s Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said the major policy shift marked a transition from an approach of attempting to convince and coax vaccine skeptics, to “quickly...

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