Getting vaccinated is a personal decision, Health Minister Sajid Javid told the BBC on Sunday. “It is up to Austria and other countries to decide what they have to do. We are fortunate that there are far fewer people in this country who hesitate to vaccinate than elsewhere,” said the British Minister of Health.
“If people are a little reluctant, we should work with them and encourage them,” said Javid. Since mid-November, the staff in British nursing homes must be fully vaccinated, and the government has also announced that employees of the English health service NHS will be vaccinated in spring. Unvaccinated people are then no longer allowed to have contact with patients, so many people are threatened with discharge. “As for compulsory vaccination for the general population, I don’t think we would ever consider that,” said Javid.
Corona rules no longer apply in England since mid-July. No restrictions are to be reintroduced at the moment, as the health minister told Sky News. The number of new infections every day has been more than 40,000 for weeks, but is not increasing as strongly as in Austria.
A significant increase in infections in the UK is unlikely, one of the developers of the Astrazeneca vaccine, Andrew Pollard, told the BBC. Because so many people have already been infected with Corona, the population’s immunity is quite high. In addition, there is the high number of vaccinations. So far, 80 percent of those over 12 have been fully vaccinated. “The virus will stay with us for decades,” said Pollard. The vaccines would help slow the spread. Still, the virus remains a “major global public health problem”.
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