A Mayo pub owner was arrested hours after opening his “wet” pub to customers who were given rapid-tests to ensure the premises was Covid-free.
The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has released a statement claiming people who refuse to take the Covid-19 vaccine could risk the lives of others.
Calling yesterday’s first vaccinations in Northern Ireland “a day of hope”, Varadkar nonetheless warned that socialising over Christmas will “likely” cause an increase in cases soon after.
The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine should not be taken by people with a history of significant allergic reactions, the British medicines regulator has warned.
The alternative of excluding unvaccinated citizens from day-to-day activities based on a small chance that the 95%-effective vaccine doesn’t work is about as divisive and intolerant as any policy could be.
A former vice-president of respiratory research at Pfizer has controversially highlighted what he describes as a potential risk that company’s vaccine will cause infertility in women.
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It’s not likely that many airlines will want to make vaccines mandatory for travel, risking loss of business, but individual governments could very well make it necessary for arriving passengers, a step that airlines would have to comply with.
“It would become virtually impossible to do anything if you don’t have the vaccine.”
“Who the hell do they think they are giving us permission to have 50 people in? They should mind their own business and let us live our lives and let the people be responsible for their own health.”
Chanting “Get out” and “We will not comply”, the business owners cheered when the police and health officials eventually left the gym where the meeting was taking place.
Ryanair has said “no vaccine cert will be required for EU short-haul flights.”