Northern Ireland Consultation on Vaccines

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Mandatory vaccines considered as part of Stormont consultation

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NI government consults on potential new laws to deal with another public health emergency like Covid-19.

Concerns raised across social media that the assembly is planning to introduce mandatory vaccinations and forced quarantine as part of any new legislation.

A campaign group has been formed to oppose the proposals and MLAs are being inundated with letters and emails.

Northern Ireland needs to replace outdated public health legislation that is more than 55 years old .

DoH has said existing legislation already enables an application to be made for a magistrates’ court order to require that a person who has an infectious disease be removed to hospital or detained there.

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