Due to the very high number of infections, Austria has gone into lockdown, and vaccination will also apply there from February. The public broadcaster ORF wants to use a lottery to encourage Austrians to vaccinate. The prices are hefty.
With an vaccination lottery, the Austrian broadcaster ORF wants to motivate skeptics to get a corona vaccination. According to the APA news agency, people aged 18 and over living in Austria who were or will be vaccinated against Covid-19 between October 1 and December 20 are eligible to participate. Prizes include a prefabricated single-family home and an electric car.
A total of almost a thousand material prizes will be auctioned. Anyone who has been vaccinated during the participation period and registers on the website https://werimpftgewinnt.orf.at has a chance of winning – regardless of whether the vaccination is the first, second or third vaccination against Covid-19 . The winners are to be announced on Christmas Eve in the ORF program “Licht ins Dunkel”. Before that, the public broadcaster wants to call for participation in the lottery and vaccination on all of its channels.
“Education and information are sometimes not enough”
“Millions of people in Austria trust the work of ORF journalists every day, who give their best 24 hours a day in all media to keep Austrians informed on the basis of scientific findings,” explained ORF Director General Alexander Wrabetz.
“But education and information are sometimes not enough to anchor the indispensable contribution of vaccination to fighting pandemics to as many people as possible,” added Wrabetz. The lottery should create “additional motivation for those willing to vaccinate”. At the same time it is “a big thank you to everyone who has already been vaccinated or boosted”.
In Austria, due to the dramatically high number of corona infections, a general lockdown has been in effect again since Monday. The hospitals in the country recorded more than 3000 corona patients for the first time on Monday, who have to be treated as inpatients. At 66 percent, the vaccination rate is below the European average.
Source From: Stern
