Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves while speaking on radio yesterday made it clear that the Government has no plans to make vaccines mandatory.
“This thing that we are amending the Public Health Act to make vaccination of everybody mandatory, that is not so.”
“We are amending the Public Health Act because there are certain categories we’ll have to make regulations for as the circumstances admit for either mandatory testing after the required requisite notice periods and the like and or testing.” He said.
Gonsalves said the government would be putting the legal framework tidily in place to have relevant regulations so that the private sector would be able to make specific requirements.
“Nobody is going to tell you that it’s an offense if you don’t take the vaccine. Nobody’s forcing you to take the vaccine. So it’s not mandatory that they’re forcing you to take the vaccine, but there are certain categories of workers if you don’t want to take the vaccine you can’t work there; you have to work somewhere else”. Gonsalves said.
