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Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Face Mandatory Covid Vaccination

by Michael Curzon
3 May 2021 11:03 AM
Nurse Isabelli Guasso administers China's Sinovac vaccine, a potential vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to volunteer and nurse Fabiana Souza, at the Sao Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil August 8, 2020. REUTERS/Diego Vara - RC2T9I9PQXIB

Nurse Isabelli Guasso administers China's Sinovac vaccine, a potential vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to volunteer and nurse Fabiana Souza, at the Sao Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil August 8, 2020. REUTERS/Diego Vara - RC2T9I9PQXIB

Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong face being forced to take Covid vaccines. Non-compliance in the vaccine rollout could result in work contracts not being renewed under plans being drawn up by Carrie Lam’s Government. The Guardian has the story.

Hong Kong’s Government has sparked discrimination concerns over plans to force hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated against Covid or face losing their job.

Authorities have embarked on mass mandatory testing of the city’s 370,000 domestic workers after a more infectious strain was detected in the community, and flagged plans for compulsory vaccinations.

Under the measures, workers would need to be vaccinated before their contracts could be renewed, and any incoming worker would be required to have the vaccination to enter Hong Kong.

The vast majority of Hong Kong’s domestic workers are migrant workers, primarily from the Philippines and Indonesia, and no other foreign workforce has been singled out for mandatory vaccines, drawing criticism from Philippines officials. The country’s Foreign Affairs Secretary, Teddy Locsin Jr., praised Hong Kong’s provision of free vaccines to domestic workers, but said singling them out to make it mandatory “smacks of discrimination”.

“If it is a special favour, it is unfair to other nationalities. Hong Kong can do better than that,” he said…

In explaining the new rules, Hong Kong’s Minister for Labour, Dr Law Chi-kwong, said the “high risk group” mainly spent their holidays with friends, which could lead to cross-family infections. The migrant workers, who usually travel alone to Hong Kong, have one day off a week and frequently gather in public places to socialise away from the home where they work.

“In the long run, we need to think about how to get more domestic workers vaccinated,” said Law.

Late last month the Hong Kong Government said that only vaccinated people can visit bars and nightclubs and their staff must also have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. A Government mobile app is being used as a vaccine passport. At restaurants, unvaccinated people must sit in designated areas, away from those who have received a vaccine.

The Guardian report is worth reading in full.

Tags: Hong KongVaccine

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Global tyranny, plain and simple. And of course the Guardian just loves to ‘report’ this stuff. Funny that…

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Adamb
Adamb
4 years ago

Might as well just start calling it China now.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago

Foreigners only? Ain’t that bit racist ?

Oh, sorry, it’s China so that don’t count.

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Mayo
Mayo
4 years ago

Another crazy anti-vaxxer with a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology who thinks the covid vaccines might not be safe.

https://www.jennifermargulis.net/halt-covid-vaccine-research-scientist-urges-cdc/

Doesn’t she realise that all this nonsense has been debunked by Lenny Henry and Dolly Parton.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Mayo

It’s just as well expert celebrities are willing to risk all by exposing these quacks.

I keenly remember Sir Elton John on Radio 2 telling us all to obey the rules to overcome the unprecedented ‘national pandemic’.

Erm ?

Last edited 4 years ago by karenovirus
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TheBigman
TheBigman
4 years ago

Apartheid Mk 2 Hong Kong style.

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