ZAGREB, 17 Nov 2021 - Education Minister Radovan Fuchs said on Wednesday the COVID certificate and testing mandates were being complied with in most cases without excessive problems and that sanctions should be imposed for those flouting them.
The mandates by the national COVID-19 crisis management team are being implemented as conceived and planned, he told the press after a cabinet meeting.
"The principals have organised things brilliantly and we are in contact with them," Fuchs said, adding that some school employees "refused testing and de facto entered schools and held classes. No one physically stopped them."
He said there was no need to hire security or police to remove people like that. He called their behaviour irresponsible, saying that no one is forcing anyone to get vaccinated and that the certificates and the testing are a measure to comprehensively curb the pandemic.
Fuchs hopes "those people will come to their senses and that they will not follow some... political projects and attempts by individuals who are trying to score cheap political points by irresponsibly playing with the health of our fellow citizens."
He said he would meet with Justice Minister Ivan Malenica and Health Minister Vili Beroš today in an attempt to find a way to legally regulate the flouting of COVID rules.
