Austria – A year ago, the Austrian government was still enforcing some of Europe’s most extreme measures against the Covid pandemic, causing an unprecedented uproar in a traditionally peaceful society. In January this year, however, the coalition government in Vienna, made up…
Czechia – On the eve of the Austrian parliament’s approval of their government’s plan to introduce mandatory vaccination of all adults as of February 1, despite opposition from a large part of the population, Czechia chose to head the opposite way. On…
Czechia – While Ladislav Dušek, director of the Czech Institute for Health Information and Statistics (ÚZIS), predicts that the Omicron variant could become dominant in the Czech Republic over the coming month, and as the new minister of Health, Vlastimil Válek (TOP09,…
Czechia – Slovakia has ordered a new lockdown for the unvaccinated one week after Austria, where the national lockdown has now been extended to the vaccinated too, starting Monday, 22 November. Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) also announced that vaccination against Covid-19…