{"id":20157,"date":"2021-09-13T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=20157"},"modified":"2021-09-13T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:05:45","slug":"puka-mayor-becomes-first-to-make-vaccination-mandatory-for-all-public-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/puka-mayor-becomes-first-to-make-vaccination-mandatory-for-all-public-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Puka mayor becomes first official to make vaccination mandatory for all public employees \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor of Puka, Gjon Gjonaj, declared earlier today that vaccination for the public employees that fall under his jurisdiction will be mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, all government employees in the municipality of Puka, will have to present a vaccination certificate to go to work. Whoever doesn\u2019t get vaccinated, will have to undergo weekly tests.<\/p>\n<p>Through a video posted on the official Facebook page of the Municipality of Puka, Gjonaj has called on all citizens to get vaccinated in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Albanian citizens are generally behind on taking preventive measures against COVID-19. Gjonaj also noted that everyone should take it upon themselves to get vaccinated, if they take the current situation into consideration, without the need for advertising or propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should give up on those voices that are poisonous for our conscience and they are poisonous for our understanding of the concept of vaccination,\u201d \u2013 declared the mayor of Puka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/balkans\/2021\/09\/10\/vaccine-proof-or-negative-pcr-test-montenegros-new-travel-rules\/\">Vaccine proof or negative PCR test, Montenegro\u2019s new travel rules<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/europe\/2021\/09\/09\/eu-takes-albania-off-the-list-of-safe-countries-to-travel-to\/\">EU takes Albania off the list of safe countries to travel to<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/07\/vaccine-certificate-or-negative-pcr-test-germany-reveals-new-travel-rules\/\">Vaccine certificate or negative PCR test, Germany reveals new travel rules<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor of Puka, Gjon Gjonaj, declared earlier today that vaccination for the public employees that fall under his jurisdiction will be mandatory. As of today, all government employees in the municipality of Puka, will have to present a vaccination certificate to go to work. Whoever doesn\u2019t get vaccinated, will have to undergo weekly tests. Through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":20158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Puka mayor becomes first official to make vaccination mandatory for all public employees \u00a0 - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/puka-mayor-becomes-first-to-make-vaccination-mandatory-for-all-public-employees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Puka mayor becomes first official to make vaccination mandatory for all public employees \u00a0 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mayor of Puka, Gjon Gjonaj, declared earlier today that vaccination for the public employees that fall under his jurisdiction will be mandatory. 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