Vaccination against Covid-19: right or obligation of military personnel?
The 25th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 10th of December in 1948, sealed the generally accepted standard of international law: “Every man has the right for… medical care and necessary social service required to maintain health and welfare of himself and his family…”. Article 41 part 1 of RF Constitution states: “Everyone has the right for health protection and medical care…”. These guidelines are particularly relevant today, when the problem of coronavirus spreading covered the entire world community. Under these conditions vaccination becomes the most effective measure providing coronavirus prevention and control over it. In this connection, the problem of full coverage of preventive vaccinations of civilians and military personnel is of particular relevance. The article presents the analysis of compulsory vaccination legality of military personnel and the actual problems of further improvement of standard base regulating the legal relations in this sphere.