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🔴Protests and unrest are growing as more countries are tightening restrictions on those people who have not been jabbed.

Are the unvaccinated becoming a global underclass?

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Vaccine passes are gaining traction around the world as countries introduce greater freedoms for the immunised.

🇳🇿New Zealand’s Covid policy has hit the headlines - with PM Ardern admitting that new covid restrictions risked turning the country into a “two-tier” society

Under the "traffic light" policy, those who are vaccinated will be able to move around and use services relatively freely, while the unjabbed will not.

🌍But this policy is not confined to the Pacific island nation...
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🇦🇹Austria have one of the most eye-opening vaccine mandates under consideration.

Those who are unjabbed risk being confined to their homes.

Chancellor Schallenberg warned that if the number of Covid patients in ICU exceeds 600 the unvaccinated will be forced into lockdown

⚠️This is one of the more extreme options under consideration, but other countries are also becoming less afraid of interfering in their citizens' lives in a bid to ensure high vaccine rates
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🇺🇸President Biden announced a “jab for jobs” policy for federal government workers.

He also called on private sector employers to do more to encourage vaccination - many obliged.

Such policies have stoked controversy - thousands are reported to have left jobs or been fired

🇫🇷President Macron announced anyone entering cinemas, museums, restaurants and bars would have to present proof of vaccination or a negative test.

France is one of the most vaccine sceptical nations but the “pass sanitaire” has turbocharged the country’s vaccination rate

❌The policy has also sparked a new wave of "gilets jaunes" style protests, with demonstrators incensed at such restrictions in a country where "liberté" is enshrined as a universal right
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🇩🇪Germany has a similar "3G" rule.

Anyone wanting to enter a public building such as a cafe, cinema or nursing home must prove that they have been either vaccinated, recovered from Covid or tested (geimpft, genesen, getestet)
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿In the UK, only Scotland has introduced anything similar.

It became a legal requirement on October 17 for anyone going to a nightclub or large event such as a football match to show proof of double vaccination or a negative test
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Read more on the Covid policies across the globe - and how it could be creating a global underclass⬇️
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