Compulsory Covid vaccinations

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BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The new Omicron variant poses a potential risk of spiralling coronavirus infections globally and governments around the world are putting plans in place to tackle it. One solutions is to make Covid vaccines compulsory. This week, Ros Atkins, looks at the debate around Covid vaccine mandates.

(Photo: A health worker prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Rosakins.
0:04.4	Each week on the BBC World Service,
0:06.7	I look at one of the biggest issues in the news.
0:10.2	This time, it's faxing mandates.
0:16.7	I don't believe we can keep going indefinitely
0:20.0	with non-pharmaceutical interventions.
0:23.2	I mean restrictions on people's way of life.
0:26.3	And I think we're going to need to have a national conversation
0:29.1	about the way forward.
0:30.7	This week, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
0:33.2	turned to the issue of compulsory COVID vaccinations.
0:37.1	He says he wants a national conversation.
0:40.0	Because he knows this pandemic isn't over.
0:43.3	Infection rates in Europe and the US are going up.
0:46.4	And when we look at deaths and hospitalizations,
0:49.4	there's a pattern.
0:50.6	Dr. Tom Frieden is the former director of the US
0:53.4	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
0:56.4	He explains.
0:57.5	We're seeing still a pandemic of the unvaccinated here.
1:01.2	With more than 1,000 deaths a day in the US,
1:04.1	almost entirely of unvaccinated individuals.
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