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BBC OS Conversations: Coronavirus: Europe’s unvaccinated

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Coronavirus: Europe’s unvaccinated

27/11/2021 GMT

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We speak to people who are resisting or refusing to get the jab

We speak to people who are resisting or refusing to get the jab.

The World Health Organisation has been sounding the alarm about the path of the pandemic in Europe, as Covid infections and deaths continue to rise across parts of the continent. Affected countries are listening and responding: mandatory vaccines, vaccine passports and movement restrictions on the unvaccinated are dominating the debate in several European countries. In this episode we bring together people who are resisting or refusing to get the jab. Germany is one of those affected countries and its outgoing health minister has said that by the end of winter “pretty much everyone in Germany will be vaccinated, recovered or dead.” Jacob in Frankfurt told us: “I would call it discrimination against the unvaccinated… you need a test for everything: to go the restaurant, to go the gym in some places”. 

Host James Reynolds also hears from two students in Austria and Germany who - due to the country’s decision to introduce mandatory vaccination from February 2022 - are unhappy at being forced to get the jab.

(Photo: People wait in front of a vaccination center in Landshut, Germany, 24 November 2021. In its efforts to break the fourth wave of the ongoing pandemic Bavaria imposes stricter protocols. Credit: EPA/PHILIPP GUELLAND)

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