After healthcare experts, legal brains, too, insist on the need for a competent authority for issuing ‘certificate of exemption’ to those who cannot take the Covid-19 vaccine on medical grounds. 

mid-day had, in an article on December 1, stated how the fundamental rights of those with neurological issues and vaccine allergies were not being addressed while drafting directives for the public, and also stressed on the need for appointment of a competent authority to certify such people. Solicitor Stuti Galiya said, “The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has, from time to time, clarified that vaccination for Covid-19 is voluntary, but it is advisable. In spite of this, many state governments and local authorities have been issuing various guidelines such as public transport, ration, etc to be allowed only to fully vaccinated people. When the Centre has made vaccination voluntary, the question is if states can compel their citizens to undergo vaccination by introducing such restrictions which indirectly mandate vaccination?”