New Delhi, March 15 (TIWN) The Central government on Tuesday supported state governments' stand making Covid vaccination mandatory for using public transports, visiting malls, and attending offices.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, submitted before a bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai, that "right to die does not mean that a person has fundamental right to infect others". He supported state governments' stand making Covid vaccination mandatory for using public transport, visiting malls, and attending offices.  He said that if the situation were to become worse, amid the ongoing Covid pandemic, then the Central government may have to take the same decision. Mehta added that a person cannot claim taking a jab is a matter of his fundamental right, as it directly impacts the lives of other people.  The Centre' s response came on a plea seeking directions for disclosure of data on clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines and post-jab cases, and also against vaccine mandates issued by various state governments.  The Centre, in its submissions, said: "The question raised in the petition regarding vaccines per se or validity of its mandatory application (as illustrated in some cases and in some states), is essentially a personal right. The petitioner's prayer, in pith and substance, is for a writ of this Court not to vaccinate others."