How vaccine-skeptic France and Germany came to support near-mandates
How vaccine-skeptic France and Germ.
PARIS - When France and Germany launched their coronavirus vaccination programs late last year, officials in both countries assured that the shots wouldnt be mandatory in their societies, where vaccine skepticism is widespread.
But more than half a year later, the two nations are going further than most other Western countries in granting privileges to people who have been vaccinated and making daily life difficult for those who aren t.
These aren t mandates. Not formally. But in practice, some of the measures come close.
In contrast with the U.S. states that have explicitly banned vaccination mandates or passports, the European Union is using digital covid certificates, with scannable QR codes that quickly show if someone has been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from covid-19. The certificates were designed with the primary goal of easing movement across borders, b
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