THE Government simply has to tinker with the schedule of a 1973 law in order to make it mandatory that school-aged children take a Covid-19 vaccine.
This could be done by the Minister of Health.
The matter does not require the approval of Parliament.
The law is the Public Health (Nursery Schools and Primary Schools Immunisation Act.
The legislation was introduced to make it mandatory that schoolchildren be vaccinated against certain diseases that were then more widespread than they are today.
They included tetanus, polio and measles.
The law does not allow exemptions based on religion.
The Government, which is currently administering Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines to students, is pushing for mass vaccinations.
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has threatened to make vaccinations mandatory.
The Minister of Health is empowered to add to the Schedule of Communicable Diseases.
