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Thursday, January 6, 2022

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

Several countries are ramping up pressure amid Omicron wave, but sceptics say mandates will be hard to police * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage 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. Continue reading...


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