Austria’s parliament has approved a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that will require adults aged 18 and over to be fully vaccinated against the CCP virus. The upper house of Austria’s parliament voted 47 to 12 late on Feb. 3, after a vote in the lower chamber on Jan. 20 to greenlight the requirement. The sweeping measure will undergo the formality of being signed by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and Chancellor Karl Nehammer before it can be enacted, causing Austria to become Europe’s first-ever country to make COVID-19 vaccines compulsory for nearly all adults. The government has long announced it intended the mandate to take effect at the beginning of February. Once the measure does take effect, authorities will write to every household to inform them of the new regulation. “Today is an important day,” Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein said during the parliamentary debate. With the vaccine mandate, he said Austria “isn’t simply …
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