A Dutch court has ruled that a 12-year-old boy had the right to get a Covid jab to visit his dying grandmother despite his vaccine-sceptic father's objections.
In one of the first cases of its kind in the Netherlands, the unnamed boy in the northern city of Groningen argued that getting the vaccine would reduce his chances of passing on an infection to her.
Judge Bart Tromp of Groningen District Court granted permission for the boy to be vaccinated due to the"interests involved in vaccination, in particular the interest of this minor". "On top of this, his grandmother is suffering from metastatic lung cancer and is in the final stages of her life."
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