Germany Debates Mandatory Vaccines for Everyone After Austria Announcement

People wait to be vaccinated at the vaccination centre in Nuremberg, Germany, on Nov. 18, 2021. Lukas Barth/Reuters

German elected officials are considering introducing making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for everyone, coming days after Austria’s government announced a similar move.

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced last week that COVID-19 vaccines would be mandatory starting Feb. 1, 2022, because the government has “not succeeded in convincing enough people to get vaccinated.”