Austria on Friday went a step further, making vaccinations mandatory as of February 1. While Austria so far stands alone in the European Union in making vaccinations mandatory, more and more governments are clamping down. With a vaccination rate of 67.5 per cent, her nation is now considering mandatory vaccinations for many health professionals. Some 10,000 people, chanting "freedom, freedom", gathered in Prague this week to protest Czech government restrictions imposed on the unvaccinated. Schoemakers said that while authorities had long baulked at the idea of mandatory vaccinations, the highly infectious delta variant is changing minds.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 21, 2021 11:01 UTC