Some countries are sharpening their Covid-19 vaccines to the public: get a shot or face a potential penalty.
With vaccination campaigns increasing globally and lack of supply decreasing, governments are looking for ways to ensure that resources do not undermine efforts to vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity.
Sanctions range from fines and restriction of access to public places to the threat of loss of priority access to vaccines.
Indonesia has already imposed fines for refusing vaccination of about $ 356, or more than an average salary, depending on the country’s gross domestic product per capita.
Israel, home to the world’s fastest Covid-19 vaccine launch, has established a firm line between those who had and had not been shot, as it unveiled plans on Sunday to reopen the company. Those who have what is called a green passport, which verifies vaccination, could enter gyms, hotels and eventually travel without being quarantined. Holdouts, Israel’s health minister said, “will be left behind.”