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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Hollie Bone

Sacked carers disgusted by 'no jab, no job' mandate welcomes government U-turn

Carers who lost their jobs in the 'no jab no job' policy say they have been left 'traumatised' after it emerged the vaccine mandate it set to scrapped but welcome the move.

More than about 80,000 care home workers lost their jobs overnight in November following the Government announcement that all frontline staff must be vaccinated.

The mandate which was revealed last March would also apply to NHS workers including doctors and nurses, who would have had to get jabbed by Thursday February 4 to keep their job.

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