In six Austrian federal states politicians received negative attention when vaccinated against the coronavirus pathogen SARS-CoV-2.
Austrian politicians pushed their way to the corona vaccination.
Nursing home workers complain about politicians' excuses.
There are vaccine prioritization lists that people should adhere to.
Austria - A vaccination against the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus has been on the market since the end of 2020.
Many citizens in the federal states are currently wondering when and where they can get vaccinated.
Risk groups are advised to get vaccinated first - then the non-risk group should take their turn.
Despite this request,
Austrian politicians
apparently pushed their way by registering in the nursing homes in their area.
But how did this incident come about - how did you get the vaccine?
Corona vaccinations: Austrian politicians sneak an injection - in nursing homes
In the Austrian
federal states of Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria and Vienna
, there have been incidents in which politicians have obtained the vaccinations in advance.
Wolfgang Matt
,
Mayor of Feldkirch
, received the vaccination in a nursing home.
The 65-year-old saw his vaccination as justified.
A doctor at the nursing home initially refused the mayor the coronavirus vaccination.
Wolfgang Matt finally got still the last dose of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine that was available in the nursing home, as the online portal
oe24.a
reported.
"There were still so many people standing outside who urgently needed a vaccination," said the doctor in the
Vorarlberger Nachrichten
.
The mayor stated in a published statement that some time ago - "when there was a great deal of skepticism about Covid vaccination in society" - he had put himself on a list of "Senior Citizens Care Feldkirch".
He noted that he can be vaccinated at any time if individual doses cannot be used during a vaccination campaign, reports
kleinezeitung.at.
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Mayor Wolfgang Matt takes a stand on vaccination allegation
"In the end there was a single, very last dose left, which City Councilor Guntram Rederer left to me," said the 65-year-old mayor.
At this point in time there would not have been a gathering of other people who would have wanted to be vaccinated.
"
So I neither pushed myself forward nor deprived anyone of the vaccination they were entitled to according to the prioritization,
" Matt said in a statement.
Another case has now also become known from Vorarlberg.
Mayor Katharina Wöss-Krall in Rankweil, was vaccinated against Corona in a retirement home.
She also justified herself by saying that she had received a leftover dose of vaccine.
Erich Wahl, Mayor of St. Georgen an der Gusen, also has the first corona vaccination behind him.
The municipality is the operator of the retirement home and elects the supervisor of the employees.
The
health staff
would finally have their turn in the first vaccination phase and could be given priority.
“I am often in the home.
It wasn't I who placed the order, but the care manager, ”says Erich Wahl.
If individual doses are left over from a vaccination campaign, these should be vaccinated to the
risk and target groups
, state governor Markus Wallner makes it clear.
He also announced that the internal prioritization lists of the old people's homes should also be observed.
After all, there is a vaccination schedule that you have to adhere to.