Almost 200,000 people without their main residence in Vienna received their corona vaccination in the federal capital. This is based on current data from the city. 70 percent of these “foreign stitches” went to Lower Austria and Burgenland, but 28,235 people registered abroad also got their first Jaukerl in Vienna. Child vaccination was an “export hit”. More than a seventh of the 14,825 five to eleven year olds vaccinated in Vienna live abroad, 112 abroad.
The residence criterion generally applies to corona vaccinations, but this is interpreted differently by the federal states. In this regard, the City of Vienna was emphatically liberal because of the high number of in-commuters, but also because of the city’s international character.
Accordingly, everyone in Vienna who has a connection to the city, for example a job or family members living in the metropolis, is vaccinated. Vienna has also become attractive for people who want to vaccinate from outside of Germany thanks to its low-threshold vaccination offers, the early shortening of the interval for booster vaccinations and the first vaccination route in Europe for off-label child vaccinations.
As of Monday, 1,427,220 first vaccinations had been carried out in Vienna. Of these, 193,609 vaccinations or 13.5 percent were given to people without a main residence in Vienna (Lower Austria 119,549, Burgenland 17,580, Styria 11,793, Upper Austria 7,820, Carinthia 3,596, Salzburg 2,269, Tyrol 1,718, Vorarlberg 1,059 and abroad 28,235). Of the 1,334,152 full immunizations, there were 170,114 “foreigners” (12.8 percent), of the 440,313 third-party stitches, 50,116 (11.3 percent) went to people who did not live in Vienna.
The proportion of non-residents in terms of child vaccinations is significantly higher. 14.8 percent of the 14,825 first vaccinations (2,199) carried out in Vienna for five- to eleven-year-olds and even 23.4 percent of the 2,253 full immunizations (427) were attributable to those outside of the main registrations. 84 percent of the first vaccinations for children went to Lower Austria (1,776) and Burgenland (137), followed by Styria (82), Upper Austria (63), Salzburg (eleven), Carinthia (ten), Tyrol (six) and Vorarlberg (two ).
In total, 413,839 vaccine doses were administered to people in Vienna who do not have their main residence in the federal capital. 55,870 vaccination doses were given to people who are not registered in Austria. But they were probably better invested than many an official vaccine donation from the Republic of Austria, which ended up in the garbage after extensive export. At the weekend it became known that Bosnia-Herzegovina had to throw away part of the 500,000 AstraZeneca vaccination doses it had received as a donation from Austria. The reason was apparently short expiration dates. Against this background, the new WHO emergency coordinator for Europe, Gerald Rockenschaub, recently called on the donor countries to donate cans with a longer expiry date. “Every expired vaccination can is a disaster,” said the Styrian doctor in an interview with the APA.