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| 29 March 2024, Friday |

UK could make COVID-19 shots compulsory in healthcare, minister says

The British government is thinking about making coronavirus vaccination mandatory for healthcare workers to stop the spread of the virus in hospitals, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday.

Zahawi told Sky News that “it would be incumbent on any responsible government to have the debate, to do the thinking as to how we go about protecting the most vulnerable by making sure that those who look after them are vaccinated.”

“There is precedent for this; obviously surgeons get vaccinated for hepatitis B. So it’s something that we are absolutely thinking about.”

    Source:
  • Reuters