The Pentagon plans to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for US troops by mid-September, as the country grapples with a rise in cases caused by the spread of the contagious Delta variant.
“To defend this nation, we need a healthy and ready force,” wrote Lloyd Austin, defence secretary, in a memo to US forces released on Monday. Some vaccines against other diseases are already mandatory.
Austin said he would bring the date forward if the US Food and Drug Administration were to grant full approval to any of the existing vaccines before then. The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine is expected to receive full approval early next month.
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