Canada to require vaccines for all federal public servants

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker from Humber River hospital's mobile vaccination team administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at The Church of Pentecost Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will require all federal public servants and employees of Crown corporations to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by early this fall, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc said on Friday.

The country will also require employees of federally regulated air, rail and marine transportation sectors be vaccinated, along with travelers on commercial flights, passengers on interprovincial trains and on large marine vessels, said Transport Minister Omar Alghabra.