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 More and more countries in Europe, including Germany, are debating
whether to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory after Austria announced
in November it would make inoculations compulsory as of Feb. 1 next
year, prompting large protests.
"Mandates around vaccination are an absolute last resort and only
applicable when all feasible options to improve vaccination uptake
have been exhausted," WHO Europe director Hans Kluge told reporters.
"The effectiveness of mandates is very context specific," Kluge
said, adding that public confidence and trust in authorities needed
to be considered.
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 "What is acceptable in one
society and community may not be effective and
acceptable in another."
Indonesia, Micronesia and Turkmenistan have also
made vaccinations against the coronavirus
mandatory for all adults.
(Reporting by Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Stine
Jacobsen; Editing by Alex Richardson and Emelia
Sithole-Matarise)
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