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Washington Post: Italy begins enforcing one of the world’s strictest workplace vaccine mandates

Published Oct. 16, 2021 at 3:49 am

Demonstrators protest against the mandatory sanitary pass called "green pass" in the aim to limit the spread of the Covid-19, in central Rome on Oct. 9, 2021.

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Italy pushed into new territory for a Western democracy on Friday, enforcing a stringent workplace vaccination rule that was dramatically reshaping society even as the morning shift began. Everywhere from offices to factories, workers faced a new requirement for entering and earning a paycheck: They had to first flash the QR code of a government-issued health pass.