Australia has decided to tighten penalties against parents who do not have their children vaccinated. Initially, the latter lost 468 euros in tax benefits per child, at the end of each year. From now on, they will lose 18 euros every fortnight. In the end, the amount lost remains the same, but this new mode of operation is there to set up a “constant reminder”.
A drop in vaccination coverage
Sanctions against the ‘anti-vax’ movement have begun to roll out in Australia, with the ‘no shots, no money’ movement, since the number of unvaccinated children rose by 0.23% in 1999 to 1.77% in 2014. “Immunization is the surest way to protect children from preventable diseases. Parents who do not vaccinate their children put them and the children of others at risk”, declared Australian Social Services Minister Dan Tehan in a statement.
One can cite as an example the case of measles whose vaccination coverage is currently considered insufficient. Thus, 643 people were affected in the United Kingdom between January 2018 and June 2018, while in 2017 the World Health Organization declared this disease to have been eradicated from the country. In France, this virus has already done 3 dead since the beginning of the year…
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