The Chinese who live in Upper Austria are front runners when it comes to the corona vaccination rate – they come to 79 percent. The Iranians living in Upper Austria, with a vaccination rate of 76 percent, are well above the state average of 66 percent. The same applies to migrants from Turkey and the Czech Republic (70 percent each). These data are provided by a detailed evaluation by Statistics Austria on vaccination readiness in Austria.
As in the rest of Austria, the immigrants from Eastern and Southeastern Europe are latecomers in Upper Austria. Migrants from Serbia (51 percent), Croatia (50 percent), Bulgaria (45 percent), Hungary (44 percent), Slovenia (43 percent) or Romania (40 percent) achieve blatantly below-average vaccination rates.
“Joint effort”
The state now wants to start again with an information offensive, as announced by Social Councilor Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer (VP). “In order to contain the virus, it takes a joint effort by all people who live in Upper Austria,” says Hattmannsdorfer. Immigrants from countries of origin with little progress in vaccination should be specifically addressed and informed in the respective national language. The Austrian Integration Fund should also have its own vaccination routes. In addition, contact with integration associations will be intensified, announced Hattmannsdorfer.
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Source: Nachrichten