SC on Covid-19: No Scientific Data to Indicate More Risk from Unvaccinated People

May 3, 2022 #SUPREME COURT
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Shivani Thakur

Published on: May 3, 2022 at 15:12 IST

Supreme Court while ruling that people cannot be forced into getting jabbed against Covid-19 and that unvaccinated people can’t be denied access to public places, made it clear that it was passing the order in view of the present situation alone and it should not be construed as ‘interference’ with Government’s Power to take steps for prevention of Covid-19 pandemic.

Persons who are keen to not be vaccinated on account of personal beliefs or preferences, can avoid vaccination, without anyone physically compelling them to be vaccinated.”

“However, if there is a likelihood of such individuals spreading the infection to other people or contributing to mutation of the virus or burdening of the public health infrastructure, thereby affecting communitarian health at large, protection of which is undoubtedly a legitimate state aim of paramount significant in the collective battle against the pandemic, the government can regulate the public health concern by imposing certainly limitations on individual rights that are reasonable or proportionate to the object sought to be fulfilled,” the Court said.

The Court said that Centre and State did not place any data that shows that the risk of unvaccinated persons is more than from vaccinated persons to justify the unvaccinated individuals in public places.

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