Austria is scrapping its vaccine mandate, four months after it became the first EU country to make jabs obligatory for all adults and as infection rates across Europe are rising again.
The controversial law was introduced amid great international interest in February but never enforced. It has been suspended since March.
Austria’s health minister, Johannes Rauch, said he had seen the need for mandatory vaccinations when the Delta variant had dominated in the country.
“But Omicron has…