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Boris Johnson has defended the government’s decision to require all care home workers in England to get the Covid vaccine.
Health secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday that staff who were not prepared to have the jab should “get out and get another job”, PA reports.
Johnson said: “I think any government really hesitates for a long time before asking people to get a vaccine as a condition of their employment.
“It is a dilemma but we did decide some time ago now that the right thing, for the peace of mind of families up and down the country, is that people working in social care should get vaccinated.”
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France has reported 4,948 new coronavirus cases, Reuters reports.
The country has had over 7 million cases overall.
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Since last year the eight provincial governments across Australia have constantly shifted restrictions and enforcement about travel and quarantine as outbreaks are suppressed in one place or flare up in another. Parochialism and public health are each factors. A federal vaccine program defined mostly by its absence has maintained that necessity. Where politicians elsewhere speak in blasé style about living with the virus, much of Australia still has the luxury of living without it.
Which makes the prospect of a nationwide Ashes tour daunting for the England players and staff weighing it up. It is counterintuitive that people from a country smothered in the virus should be anxious about travelling somewhere that is not, but the double-jabbed ranks of the autumn tourists can by now live a mostly unencumbered life at home. Travelling to or around Australia at present offers far less certainty.
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France has reported 31 new coronavirus deaths in hospital in the past 24 hours, Reuters reports.
It has also recorded…
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