England plans to revoke mandatory COVID jabs for health workers

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The policy requiring employees to be fully vaccinated by April 1 met resistance from some workers - sacking those who did not comply could cause significant staff shortages.

The policy would have required employees in the state-run National Health Service and social care workers to be fully vaccinated by April 1. This means they would have to receive their first shot this week to meet that deadline.

Health minister Sajid Javid said on Monday the government would launch a consultation into whether the policy was still needed with the emergence of the Omicron variant, which is more transmissible but results in milder symptoms."While vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19 I believe that it is no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of deployment.

The government has faced criticism for its overall handling of the pandemic in which Britain has reported more than 155,000 deaths from COVID-19 in total, the seventh highest death total in the world. The Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives had previously pushed for the government to extend the deadline to prevent a mass shortage in the health service, saying the policy amounted to"self-sabotage".

 

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