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  • Take public transport, travel abroad or even send your child to school, soon prohibited for those who will not agree to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Australia?

    This is the affirmation that spreads on social networks, through a meme.

  • The Australian Prime Minister spoke of "measures" to make the vaccine acceptable to the population, without revealing them.

  • He assured that the vaccine will not be compulsory.

Do Australians who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 face a long series of sanctions?

The fear has spread on social networks, through a meme that lists these measures: ban on traveling abroad, going to restaurants, taking public transport or even receiving certain allowances.

The children would not be able to go to school either.

This meme is circulating on social networks.

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Currently, vaccination against Covid-19 is not compulsory in Australia.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke in favor of this mandatory nature, before reconsidering his position.

"There will be no compulsory vaccine", he explained to the microphone of 2GB radio on August 19, before adding that there will be "a lot of encouragement and measures to obtain a rate of 'acceptance [of the vaccine] as high ”as for other vaccines.

Measures that he has not yet detailed.

"The first step will never be the stick"

Asked on August 19 about possible sanctions, Doctor Nick Coatsworth, a member of the team of experts assembled by the Australian government to fight against Covid-19, was cautious.

“The first step will never be the stick,” he said.

He said "anticipate" a "significant demand" from his compatriots for the future vaccine.

Regarding a possible ban on going to restaurants, traveling abroad or using public transport, these "political decisions" will be "discussed", assured the doctor, before adding that he did not At the moment there is no "mechanism to enforce this kind of thing".

A program, introduced in 2015, provides for penalties

Nick Coatsworth, however, spoke of a possible "stick of incentive" for vaccination, which would go through "the means of current programs, including No Jab, No Pay".

This “no jab, no pay” is a program, implemented in its current version in 2015 by Scott Morrison, which plans to suspend or reduce benefit payments if the child does not has not received a list of vaccines.

In some states, unvaccinated children cannot access nursery or preschool.

Australia deplores as of September 2 657 deaths from Covid-19 and 25,819 confirmed cases.

The country signed a "letter of intent" on August 19 with the pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca, to manufacture the vaccine on its territory and distribute it free of charge to 25 million Australians, "in case the clinical trials are successful", Scott Morrison said.

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