Some countries are sharpening their public for Covid-19 vaccination: get a hit or face a possible penalty.
As vaccination campaigns intensify globally and some supply shortages diminish, governments are looking for ways to ensure that obstacles do not undermine efforts to vaccinate enough people to gain herd immunity.
Sanctions range from fines and restricting access to public places to threatening to lose priority access to vaccines.
Indonesia has already been fined about $ 356 – or more than a month’s average salary, according to the country’s gross domestic product per capita.
Israel, home to the fastest launch of the Covid-19 vaccine in the world, drew a firm line between those who received and had not been shot, as it unveiled plans to reopen the company on Sunday. Those with what are called green passports, which verify vaccination, could enter gyms, hotels and eventually travel without being quarantined. Holdouts, the Israeli health minister, said, “it will lag behind.”