Socialite, Efia Odo, has criticised the government’s mandatory Covid-19 vaccination, urging health officials to respect the rights of people to make personal choices.
According to her, although malaria has killed more people than Covid-19, the government seems fixated on coercing Ghanaians to take the vaccine.
She said malaria has killed more people than covid, and approximately 20,000 people die from malaria each year, but the government is making the Covid jabs mandatory.
From January next year, the police will inspect the vaccination cards of all commercial drivers and motorbike riders to ensure that they have taken the COVID-19 shot.
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Also, workers of all government institutions and health facilities will not be allowed into their workplaces if they do not show their vaccination certificates, while absence from work, for this reason, will deprive a worker of his or her salary, according to the report.
Furthermore, students 15 years or above, as well as all teaching and non-teaching staff, of secondary and tertiary institutions are also expected to be vaccinated before the next academic year.
Patrons and workers of all restaurants, stadiums, beaches and nightclubs are also expected to be vaccinated mandatorily and show proof before entry into such places.
The arrangements are part of a mandatory vaccination policy that started on December 1, 2021, and is to be enforced in January next year, after the government had declared December a National Vaccination Month.