British Health Secretary Tells Care Home Staff Get Covid Vaccine or Another Job

British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that care workers who are not prepared to get the Covid jab should get away and get a new job.

The British Secretary has brushed off calls from providers to 'pause' for full vaccination of staff in England and warns that, if workers are forced to leave, some homes may not cope with them.

Javid said that he should not work in the sector unless he is willing to be vaccinated in an uncompromising message to carry out workers.

“If you want to work in a care home you are working with some of the most vulnerable people in our country and if you cannot be bothered to go and get vaccinated, then get out and go and get another job," the British official told the BBC Radio 4 Today program.

He added: “If you want to look after them, if you want to cook for them, if you want to feed them, if you want to put them to bed, then you should get vaccinated." “If you are not going to get vaccinated then why are you working in care?"

The British Secretary also said: “If you think about your elderly relatives you might have in care homes, and the idea that someone wants to look after them and they don’t want to take a perfectly safe and effective vaccine that has been approved by our regulators, been used all over the world because somehow they have got some objection to this vaccine, then really, honestly, they shouldn’t be in our care homes."

“They should go and get another job. I am very clear on that.”

The National Care Association's Chairman Nadra Ahmed urged that the government defer the 11 November deadline when the staff will have both jabs, stating that if homes have to reduce residents' numbers, this will be a knock-on effect on the NHS.

Ahmed said care homes have already overcome considerable resistance between vaccine personnel.

Shortly before the vaccine program launched in November last year, she said that only 40% of employees said they would get it.

But now, she said, 86% are completely vaccinated. "We are not anti-vaccine. What we are saying is we needed a bit more time to get people where they needed to be.”

She said the effects on care homes and the wider health sector would be seviere without any delay to the deadline.