South Australian Authorities Close Mandate Loophole for Vaccine Trial Participants

Health staff conduct tests at the COVID-19 testing centre in the Reactivating the Repat Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, on March 11, 2020. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

South Australian (SA) authorities will remove vaccine mandate exemptions for individuals participating in vaccine trials from Dec. 8.

The new direction from SA Police will override an existing direction from early November that allowed those “taking part in a COVID-19 vaccine trial” to be exempt from taking an approved vaccine because it could “impact the validity” of the trial.