Compulsory Covid-19 vaccination won’t help – coercion will increase hesitancy, not reduce it It is unethical to deny people the basic right to work, even more so when access to vaccines remains unequal. 10 hours ago A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai on January 19, 2021. | Punit PARANJPE / AFP On April 4, the Maharashtra government issued a notification that said transport workers, delivery service providers, roadside vendors, factory workers and construction workers must get vaccinated “at the earliest as per government guidelines”. Until they are vaccinated, they must get an RT-PCR test done every two weeks, presumably at their own expense. Unvaccinated people in these groups who are not carrying a negative RT-PCR certificate will be fined Rs 1,000, and private establishments employing these staff can be fined Rs 10,000 or even shut down, with effect from April 10.