Croatian president opposes fines for flouting COVID-19 certificate mandate

The government-sponsored amendments to the bill on infection diseases that envisage fines for persons not complying with the COVID-19 certificate mandate “are not a law but an act of terrorising,” President Zoran Milanović said on Thursday.

Commenting on increasingly frequent reports that vaccination would be mandatory at the EU level, Milanović said it made no sense, is not based on science, and is unjustified and wrong.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenković warned that the coronavirus epidemic was not waning and the number of COVID-19 deaths in Croatia had exceeded 11,000, again calling for adherence to epidemiological measures and vaccination.

Health Minister Vili Beroš said that the number of new coronavirus infections was down 14.5% from the previous week and that the number of hospitalisations was also slightly smaller. However, pressure on the health system was still significant.

Other sources are connecting the decreasing rate of infections with COVID certificate mandates.

(Željko Trkanjec | EURACTIV.hr)