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Austria faces a third blockade. But will it be the last? The Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober, will answer the questions.
As of December 26, the crown measures will be hardened again, the next day the first Austrians will be vaccinated against Covid-19. Turbulent times, also for the Green Health Minister Rudolf Anschober. In the ZiB interview, he explains if the latest blockade is approaching and why he will not be among the first to be vaccinated.
Not go ahead
“I promise that they will guarantee me a vaccine, and the sooner I can do it, the more I prefer it,” praised the Minister of Health, but admits at the same time that he, unlike his counterparts in the United States or Israel, for example, I will not be in the first row. “Some then think that it is a privilege of politics that politicians are preferred. That is why I will stick to the calendar and only get vaccinated in April or May.”
“Vaccination is a gift we experience” – Anschober
The first 9,750 doses of vaccination will be distributed throughout Austria on Sunday “in a de facto symbolic act”. At the end of December, 270,000 doses of vaccines will be delivered, initially in homes for the elderly and the elderly.
“We can’t lock ourselves in forever”
According to the Minister of Health, the objective is that everyone who wants to be vaccinated has the opportunity to do so before summer, “when we reach 50 percent of the population, it is a good first step, but I want much more.”
When asked about the fact that the crown measures will be relaxed on December 24 and 25, but will be massively tightened on December 26, Anschober says. “We will not be able to have confinements forever, there must also be phases of normality. The last few weeks have been very, very intense and success proves us right, so we wanted to be a little more generous to have one on December 26 for the last time Start blocking “, so Anschober.
