“Vaccination provides the best protection against the virus, and the more people get vaccinated, the sooner we will defeat the pandemic.

Like many others, I am happy to be vaccinated because it is the key to a normal life, ”said Kurz.

In April, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen was vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Austrian Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein said that the country will not register the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at the national level, but will wait for the results of the drug test by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).