Some countries are tightening up their Covid-19 vaccination sites for the public: take a chance or face possible punishment.
With vaccination campaigns increasing worldwide and some supply shortages decreasing, governments are looking for ways to ensure that holdouts do not undermine efforts to vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity.
Punishments range from fines and limiting access to public places to threatening to lose priority access to vaccines.
Indonesia has already imposed fines for refusing vaccination of about $ 356 – or more than a month’s salary on average, according to gross domestic product per capita.
Israel, home to the world’s fastest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, drew a clear line between who did and didn’t get shots when it unveiled plans to reopen society on Sunday. Those with so-called green passports, who verify a vaccination, can enter gyms, hotels, and eventually travel without going into quarantine. Holdouts, Israel’s health minister, “will lag behind.”