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In Australia, the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services has written to local churches asking them to counter dangerous misinformation promoting vaccine hesitancy among Aboriginal communities.
It comes after the Western Australian senator Pat Dodson condemned the “evil” messages of a small number of rogue Christian groups, which are fuelling anti-vaccination sentiment in the Kimberley.
I’m Catholic, and I have the utmost respect for religious groups, but at the end of the day if you’re not vaccinated God isn’t going to help you because you’re going to end up very sick and you’re going to die. And that’s the reality.
Related: Aboriginal health service asks Kimberley churches to counter Covid vaccine misinformation
In Greece, unvaccinated healthcare workers have been offered a second chance to get jabbed after hundreds protested against the mandatory shot.
The government also said it would allow those who have been already suspended to return to work amid protests in central Athens on Thursday.
Hundreds of those workers staged a five-hour work stoppage on Thursday and took to the streets in Athens and other Greek cities for a second time in less than a month to protest against the new rule.
A labour union official for hospital workers POEDIN said that a total of 10,000 unvaccinated staff could be suspended, disrupting operations at understaffed Greek hospitals at a time when infections remained high and were likely to rise further.