Canada To Make Vaccinations Mandatory For Everyone

Provinces are likely to introduce mandatory vaccination policies in the coming months to deal with surging COVID-19 caseloads, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said today.

“What we see now is that our health care system in Canada is fragile, our people are tired, and the only way that we know to get through COVID-19, this variant and any future variant, is through vaccination,” Duclos said.

Duclos said that while rapid tests, masking and social distancing are useful tools, they won’t end the pandemic on their own.

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“Fifty per cent of hospitalizations now, in Quebec, are due to people not having been vaccinated,” he said. “That’s a burden on health care workers, a burden on society which is very difficult to bear and for many people difficult to understand.

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/duclos-mandatory-vaccination-policies-on-way-1.6307398

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