Germany’s chancellor-to-be, Olaf Scholz, supports making vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory, German media have reported, as neighbouring Austria is debating how to enforce obligatory jabs from February. “As a delegate I would certainly vote in favour, to make that very clear,” Der Spiegel reported Scholz as saying. “We didn’t want a vaccine mandate, let me make that explicit,” said the minister for EU and constitutional affairs, Karoline Edtstadler. The far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), which is seeking to challenge the vaccine mandate legally, was not invited. Constitutional lawyers have advised making vaccination mandatory for anyone over 14, which is the age of criminal responsibility in Austria.

Source: The Guardian November 30, 2021 21:54 UTC