One Australian jurisdiction has announced one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the world with certain people facing huge fines.
Essential workers in the Northern Territory will be subject to one of the strictest Covid-19 vaccination mandates in the world to begin in just a month.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner said employees who interacted with the public needed to get least one Covid-19 jab by November 13 or they wouldn’t be allowed back to work and faced a $5000 fine.
The new directions apply to:
- Employees at all jobs that involve interacting with members of the public. For example: hospitality, banking, retail, supermarket, receptionists, hairdressers and beauty therapists
- Workers who come into direct contact with people at risk of severe illness from Covid-19, like Aboriginal people or those who can't be vaccinated
- Employees who work in a high-risk setting where there is a known risk of Covid-19 transmission or outbreak
- People who perform work in essential infrastructure, food or essential good security or supply, or logistics
The direction also includes a provision that mandates booster shots for those workers in the future.
Employers will be allowed to request proof of vaccination of staff and will be required to keep a register of the vaccination status of all employees.
Some exemptions will be available to those who have legitimate reasons not to be vaccinated. It must be supported by medical evidence.
“If your job includes interacting with members of the public, then you need to get the jab,” Mr Gunner said.
“If you work in hospitality you need to get the jab. If you work in retail or in a supermarket, you need to get the jab.”
Mr Gunner warned Territorians: “You have 30 days”.
“That is the deadline to keep working in these jobs,” he said.
While the chief minister said the overall vaccination numbers were “pretty good” he pointed out there were some “worryingly low rates” in remote communities.
He said he was doing everything possible to get everyone vaccinated.
“You know I am passionate, sometimes aggressively passionate about the importance of the vaccine and I want as many people as possible to be vaccinated,” he said.
“At the end of the day with all the best information, with all the goodwill, with all the repeated attempts, there are some people and some communities who have said no to the jab and could keep saying no.
“At some stage, Covid will get in. Complacency terrifies me (as well as) the idea that we will just stay at Covid-zero. It will come in. There is an invisible clock ticking on this.”
NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said a commonsense approach would need to be applied.
“We’ve alerted everyone to a 30-day notice period to try and get their house in order,” he said.
“The trade-off is my people literally walking around collecting bodies who passed away from Covid and that‘s a very real conversation that the chief health officer and I have had about what out worst case scenario looks like. I don’t want that.”
NT Chief health officer Hugh Heggie said people neeeded to know that vaccines were safe.
“I've got to make a plea. Our health staff are already working really hard and we’ve seen the exhaustion that others are feeling at the moment, not just related to Covid,” he said.
“This is a chance for us to save ourselves.”
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