About 60 per cent of WA's workforce is required to be fully immunised against COVID from today and, while the Liberals disagree, experts say those mandates should remain in place.
Throughout the ebb and flow of WA's various COVID restrictions, one rule has remained steady for months now — workplace vaccination requirements.Experts agree the workplace mandate should remain for nowSince late last year, about 60 per cent of WA workers have been required to be vaccinated to continue working and from today, this cohort will need to have had their third booster shot.
It certainly limits what the unvaccinated can do, but nowhere near as much as previously, when proof of vaccination was needed to dine in at restaurants and even purchase alcohol.When those rules were wound back, only about 1 per cent, or roughly 22,000 West Australians, were not double-dose vaccinated.
More than a month since that advice was prepared, Curtin University Population Health Professor Jaya Dantas said little had changed."We are still in the midst of a global pandemic, and we've seen multiple waves go through. Professor Dantas said while people should take responsibility for their own safety in a range of settings, vaccination was one space where the government should still set the rules.Liberal leader David Honey is among those questioning the continued requirement for people to be vaccinated to work.
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