Covid Vaccine Mandates?

A dive into the major debate surrounding vaccine mandates

• As the pandemic enters its third winter, vaccine mandates are one of the most contested issues on the political agenda currently.
• Governments are resorting to last-ditch efforts to keep infections as low as possible this cold season, and are issuing ultimatums to workers in order to increase vaccination rates.
• Millions of both public and private sector workers are facing tough ‘no jab, no job’ policies and unemployment if they don’t get jabbed, and mandates are already proving to have the desired effect.
• But political pushback against such policies is fierce, with thousands demonstrating in various countries against forced inoculations - a breach of human rights in the views of some critics.
• We take a look at the different strategies individual countries are employing to increase the vaccinated share of their populations.