UK could make Covid-19 jabs compulsory in healthcare, minister says

UK could make Covid-19 jabs compulsory in healthcare, minister says

The government is mulling over the plan that will help stop virus spread in hospitals.

Medical workers care for a Covid patient in the ICU at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge in January. (AP pic)
LONDON:
The British government is thinking about making Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for healthcare workers to stop the spread of the virus in hospitals, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said today.

“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,” he told Sky News.

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

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