Vaccine mandates, fines, gym bans: how Europe hopes to persuade unjabbed

Posted by on January 6, 2022 10:56 am
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Several countries are ramping up pressure amid Omicron wave, but sceptics say mandates will be hard to police

European governments are ramping up the pressure on people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 by making life progressively harder for those who have not done so, but few are opting to make jabs compulsory – and one country that plans to is now having doubts.

As the Omicron variant sweeps across much of the continent, causing record infection numbers in almost a dozen countries from Finland to Greece, boosting vaccination tallies has become a priority to ease pressure on overburdened health services.

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