Ethics commission rejects compulsory vaccinations Published on Share
A general vaccination obligation in Switzerland would interfere “disproportionately with fundamental rights”, according to the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NCE).
The commission also advised against mandatory vaccination for certain groups of the population, such as healthcare workers. “To prescribe such self-protection for specific groups would be paternalistic and unjustifiable,” it said in a statement on Friday.
In addition, it said that unequal treatment of vaccinated and non-vaccinated people via a vaccination certificate could only be justified if vaccination guaranteed protection against virus transmission and everyone had access to the vaccination.
A general vaccination obligation in Switzerland would interfere disproportionately with fundamental rights , according to the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NCE).