COVID-19 vaccine should be mandatory in Australia: PM
SYDNEY: Australia should make any coronavirus vaccine compulsory for its 25 million citizens bar medical exemptions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday , wading into a heated ethical debate.for the country to manufacture a"promising" vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, Morrison said getting the jab should be"as mandatory as you can possibly make it".
"We're talking about a pandemic that has destroyed the global economy and taken the lives of hundreds of thousands all around the world," he said, while stressing the government has not yet made a decision.The Australian government estimates that up to 95 per cent of the population would need to be immune to the virus for it to be eradicated.
The country already has"no jab, no play" rules that mean kids have to receive vaccines for diseases including polio and tetanus to enrol in kindergarten or school.But debate still rages about whether those rules impinge on personal freedoms, and hardline anti-vaxxers flood online forums with conspiracy theories and misinformation about the risks.
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