An appeals court has found it āinconceivableā that legislation aimed at protecting public health would not have afforded the New South Wales health minister the power to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for certain workers, given the outbreak of the Delta strain of the coronavirus.
A court has dismissed challenges to the New South Wales public health orders that made it mandatory for certain workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, declaring they did not breach workersā rights to bodily integrity.
The New South Wales government has accused anti-vaccination advocates of having a āmisguidedā and āone-dimensional focusā on the fundamental rights of the individual over those of a community contending with the highly-contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.Ā