Ministers see 'no need' for Wales to follow England and require health and social staff to be jabbed.
A Welsh government spokesperson said take up of the coronavirus vaccine in Wales has been high among both health and social care staff and that "while Covid vaccination rates are at such high levels in these groups, we do not see the need for compulsory measures".
"We are still in the business of trying to persuade those final 5%, but there will obviously be amongst them some people who have medical reasons why they can't have those two doses."Boris Johnson visiting Hexham General Hospital in Northumberland, on Monday "What I find shocking is that you have a situation where you have the UK government insisting on people in the NHS being double vaccinated, and yet the prime minister of the United Kingdom can walk into a hospital without even a face mask on," Ms Morgan said.
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