Austria bans unvaccinated (inc children 12+) and those vaccinated 9+ months ago from hotels

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• Steve says:

  11 Nov11 November 10:00

  The world has gone unnecessarily crazy over this and that’s all I have to say on the matter. Looks like Austria is off my winter and likely summer travel list now. Guess I’ll go to another MotoGP race next year instead.

• SNB7X says:

  11 Nov11 November 10:27

  Booster jabs for 60+ start imminently in Austria – so I guess they will have to alter the wording to suit that cohort and maybe “boosted” U.K. travellers will have pressure from airlines and Austria travel stakeholders within a week or two also. I travel 5th Dec and both myself and my wife are boosted / but her vaccinations were almost a year ago so technically she will qualify day or travel but day after won’t make this new standard!

• Judge says:

  11 Nov11 November 13:06

  The NHS COVID app has to be fixed. On the scale of things, not many Brits go to Austria, but it’s very likely that other countries will follow this rule as initial vaccine immunity wanes. It is inexplicable that the app doesn’t show boosters.

  • Roy says:

    11 Nov11 November 14:25

    France is to change the rules so that for over-65s vaccinations will only be recognised for the purposes of the domestic health pass if they they took place no more than 6 months and 5 weeks ago. Probably the age groups that this applies to will broaden over time as France continues to roll out boosters.

    At least they allow the alternative of a test, though.

• Roy says:

  11 Nov11 November 14:33

  Apparently there’s a proposal that if the number of intensive care beds occupied by COVID patients reaches 30% (projected to be imminent) then they’ll institute a lockdown for the unvaccinated. i.e. unvaccinated people will not be able to leave their homes except for essential purposes such as work, shopping for essentials, and exercise!!!

  Not clear to me if the 270 limit will apply to this, too….

• Matarredondaaa says:

  11 Nov11 November 14:42

  People who refuse vaccination are either downright stupid or lazy.
  Statistics show unvaccinated people are far far more likely to need hospitalisation.
  Every country is entitled to set rules do if we want to visit we either accept them or don’t go.

  • Steve says:

    11 Nov11 November 21:34

    Freedom of choice. We don’t tell people with lung dancer to stop smoking. Discuss…

    • Dilbert says:

      11 Nov11 November 22:15

      I can’t catch lung cancer from them?

      • Char Char says:

        12 Nov12 November 17:26

        You can if they are still smoking.

      • Mo says:

        13 Nov13 November 21:21

        You can catch covid from a vaccinated person also so that point is moot. Studies show that the vaccinated are less likely to infect people for only a few weeks until it wanes off. This after a few weeks a vaccinated person can infect people the same as a non vac. We’ve been sold a lie!

        P.s. I’m double vaccinated

    • Alex Sm says:

      11 Nov11 November 22:49

      You are free to choose whether you want to be barred from non-essential activities or not – simples, as they say in the adverts

  • Char Char says:

    12 Nov12 November 17:24

    The current hospitalisation rates are very low per 100k, the difference between unvaccinated and vaccinated in real numbers is also very low. Even looking at the numbers for the over 70s they numbers and rates are low. The current hospitalisation rate is a quarter of that of January but people welcome more restrictions!

• Toby Stan says:

  12 Nov12 November 13:32

  Are Secret Squirrel and Savage Squirrel related to each other?

• Tania says:

  13 Nov13 November 08:50

  Hi, just been shown by someone that the booster IS in the NHS app, but not in the main QR area. You need to look in the medical history / medicines section and it should be listed there. I’ve not had the booster yet to check this, but hopefully this will meet the Austrian requirements.

  • Rob says:

    13 Nov13 November 09:56

    You prove your status by scanning a QR code into scanner that the shop / cafe has. The scanner gives you a yes or no. This won’t help.

• GenX says:

  14 Nov14 November 13:22

  The rules are simple, scan a QR code. If it doesn’t say yes then it’s a no.
  Austrians won’t be examining a foreign app in a foreign language for some booster clues. NHS need to fix it and make the booster info readable on QR scanners.

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