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Turkey's health minister has pleaded vaccinated people in the country's nine provinces help authorities persuade the unvaccinated to get the COVID-19 jab.

"Please contact your friends, acquaintances…to convince them to get the vaccine so that we can increase the vaccination rates in those provinces…Help overcome vaccine hesitancy," Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter on Nov. 14.

Brazil's Supreme Court has allowed companies to require employees to provide evidence of vaccination against COVID-19. This was announced by the press service of the university court of the country, world agencies reported.

Around 8.6 million people in Turkey have skipped their second and third doses of the vaccines against COVID-19, the country's health minister has said.

"You need to get your shots on time if we are to benefit more from power of the vaccinations," Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter on Nov. 11, urging people to stick to the vaccination program.

In England, the deadline for compulsory vaccination of workers in social care homes expires today. However, thousands are still not fully vaccinated and may lose their jobs, Sky News reports.

Turkey will start administering booster shots for citizens aged 18 and older beginning Thursday, the country's Health Minister said on Nov. 10.

Anyone older than 18 years of age who were administered an mRNA vaccine at least six months ago can receive "reminder shots," Fahrettin Koca said.

Turkey will offer booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine to all its citizens aged 18 and older starting on Nov. 11, the country's Health Minister has announced.

Speaking after the Health Ministry's Science Board meeting held on Nov. 11, Fahrettin Koca reminded that the country was already giving the third dose of the vaccine to those who are aged above 60.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to allow the third dose of Covid-19 vaccine for anyone over 18 years of age.

The argument is that more protection is needed and that there is a danger of increasing the spread of the virus with holiday trips and gatherings.

250,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in the last 2 weeks. This was stated by the Minister of Health Stoycho Katsarov in "The day begins with Georgi Lyubenov".

According to Katsarov, the measures work because they reduce the number of newly infected, and people comply with the requirements for a green certificate.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Nov. 6 halted a vaccine mandate by President Joe Biden's administration that is intended to push millions of workers at businesses with more than 100 employees into getting COVID-19 shots.

Turkey's vaccination drive needs to be accelerated in order to reach herd immunity, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has said.