The Queensland government has denied that vaccine mandates have contributed to the delay of the start of the new school year after it began standing down teachers once the deadline passed for a survey to determine who was vaccinated.
This comes as the Australian state has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases since the state opened its borders to vaccinated travellers on Dec. 13 last year. Since then, the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been reported in tens of thousands of vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
