Italian children without vaccination certificates are being turned away from schools after the country’s coalition reversed its previous stance on the need for compulsory injections.
The reversal insists that as of this week, children attending school must receive immunisations for a range of infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, rubella and polio, and under the law, parents will be fined up to 500 euros.
The president of the National Association of Head Teachers, Antonello Giannelli, says the number of children turning up without the required vaccination certificates has been “very limited”.