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Is vaccination mandatory? The cantons and the Federal Council could prescribe a corona vaccination for caregivers. Health Minister Alain Berset sympathizes with him.
For critics of vaccination, it’s the terrifying scenario: a corona vaccination is mandatory. In the “Rundschau talk”, Health Minister Alain Berset gives new fuel to these fears: the Health Minister is open to an obligation, for example, for caregivers in nursing homes and for the elderly. If the cantons want this, says Berset, then he is in favor.
Mandatory – no obligation
A requirement could mean “that staff in a nursing home should be vaccinated so that they can continue to work with older people.” If an employee does not want that, then they will have to work elsewhere, without contact with older people or other people at risk. That’s not the same as a mandatory vaccination: “There will be no coercion in the sense that you let people get vaccinated against their will,” Berset says of a possible corona vaccination obligation.
In addition to the cantons, the Epidemic Law also allows the Federal Council to impose that obligation itself as long as the “special situation” applies today. Berset sees the cantons in motion. The Health Minister expects a rush for a corona vaccine as soon as it is available. “I think there will be problems getting enough doses at first,” says Berset. But Switzerland is not that far off: “We don’t have a vaccine at the moment. And it would have to be approved first anyway. That will only be the case if it is true. “
