Austria suspends mandatory COVID vaccination law

Austria will suspend a law making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all adults, the government says, just a month after the legislation took effect in an EU first.

“After consultations with the health minister, we have decided that we will of course follow what the (expert) commission has said –- we will suspend mandatory vaccination,” minister Karoline Edtstadler tells reporters after a Cabinet meeting.

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