Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory?
Al Jazeera
Experts say vaccines mandates are ‘100 percent a human rights issue’ but also about keeping society safe.
Governments across the world are turning to vaccine mandates as the Delta variant continues to wreak havoc and vaccine uptake in some communities begin to slow down.
New Zealand – which has abandoned its COVID-Zero strategy amid persistent infections – introduced last week a “no jab, no job” policy for doctors and teachers, while neighbouring Fiji says all of its public and private sector workers are liable to lose their jobs if they fail to get fully inoculated by November.
In the United States, where a surge of infections this summer disrupted plans to restore some sense of normality, President Joe Biden in September announced a vaccine mandate for most federal government employees and demanded that large companies require their workers to get fully jabbed or submit to weekly testing.
