Unions, employers appeal to gov't for mandatory Covid jabs

Poland's biggest trade unions and employers haveissued a joint appeal to the government to introduce mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations as new infections are rising fast, threatening the country's economic recovery. In the appeal, the unions and employers stressed the efficiency of vaccines and observed that now only medics are officially obliged to get vaccinated in Poland. They also pointed out that Poland's vaccination statistics are much worse than Western Europe's, with only 54 percent of Poles having been fully vaccinated.