The Vatican will sanction employees who refuse to get a vaccine, unless they have "proven health reasons" not to, according to a new Vatican decree.
A variety of sanctions for anyone violating measur.
In Bangladesh, health workers had 10 times more vaccines than people
Feb 13, 2021 contributor
A nurse injects a man with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccineat Dhaka Medical College vaccination center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 9, 2021. (Credit: Mohammad Ponir Hossin/Reuters via CNS.)
A priest in Bangladesh has blamed misinformation and lack of promotion for the low turnout as the government s mass COVID-19 vaccination program began.
A priest in Bangladesh has blamed misinformation and lack of promotion for the low turnout as the government’s mass COVID-19 vaccination program began.
“There is a reluctance among people because there has been some propaganda that has had a negative impact on them. There is a lack of publicity,” Father Bablu Lawrence Sarker of the Khulna Diocese’s health care commission in southern Bangladesh told ucanews.com.
Roberto Dell’Oro
By Roberto Dell Oro • Catholic News Service • Posted February 12, 2021
Over the past year, the Pontifical Academy for Life has invested considerable thinking and action into the issues generated by COVID-19, addressing the challenges of the pandemic from several different angles. I would summarize the contribution of the academy as threefold: ethical, existential and spiritual.
First, with its documents in March and July 2020, and most recently with a joint statement with the Vatican COVID-19 Commission, the academy has tackled all the major ethical issues generated by the pandemic. While in the beginning, problems of clinical ethics were dominant for example, the need to articulate criteria for resource rationing in intensive care units issues of public health became progressively more relevant, especially with respect to the equitable distribution of the vaccine.
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By Davide Dionisi
“Old age: our future. The elderly after the pandemic” is the title of a document published on Tuesday by the Pontifical Academy for Life, together with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The document proposes a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from the tragedy caused by the spread of Covid-19, on its consequences for today and for the near future of our societies.
The pandemic has produced a twofold awareness “on the one hand, the interdependence of everyone, and on the other greater attention to inequalities. We are all in the same storm, but it is increasingly evident that we are on different boats, and that the least seaworthy boats are sinking every day. It is essential to rethink the whole planet’s development model,” reads the document.