When an unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 in a nursing home in the Landes region of France led to two deaths last month, the media and the government seized upon a surprising fact: Only 60 percent of care home staff were vaccinated, even though they had had access to coronavirus jabs for months.
French Health Minister Olivier Véran immediately blamed the infections on a non-vaccinated caregiver despite the fact that the cluster’s origin couldn t be confirmed. But he also unleashed a broader debate: What to do with health and social care workers who reject the jab and whether mandatory vaccination is the answer.
Sanction, recours juridiques: comment se déroule la vaccination obligatoire des soignants en Italie?
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Covid-19 : la vaccination des soignants deviendra-t-elle obligatoire en France comme c est le cas en Italie ?
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Russia sets another COVID record as world battles Delta variant
By AFP - Jul 04,2021 - Last updated at Jul 04,2021
A healthcare worker administers a dose of Russia s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at a vaccination centre in the GUM, State Department store in Moscow, on Friday (AFP photo)
MOSCOW Russia reported its fifth record for daily COVID-19 deaths in a row on Saturday, as countries around the world rushed to contain the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
The variant has propelled a resurgence of the virus which has already killed nearly 4 million people, forcing numerous nations to reimpose restrictions well over a year after the pandemic first swept the world.
The case, brought by professionals throughout northern Italy, will be heard on July 14.
“This isn’t a battle by anti-vaxxers but a democratic battle,” constitutional lawyer Daniele Granara, who helped build up the case, was cited as saying in the Giornale di Brescia newspaper.
“We force people to take a risk under threat of no longer being allowed to exercise their profession,” he added.
Granara is also defending dozens of caregivers who have been suspended from work for refusing to be vaccinated.
Italy passed a law in April obliging anyone working in public or private social health positions, including in pharmacies and doctors’ offices, to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be suspended without pay, unless their employer can reassign them to a less sensitive position.