New Delhi:

Punjab government employees won’t get their salary if they don’t give their vaccination certificate, the state government said in a statement today. One can be fully vaccinated or have taken a single dose, but they will have to upload the certificates on the Punjab government’s job portal if they want their salary.

The government order, however, does not mention what it intends to do about employees who aren’t vaccinated.

Punjab’s rather strict policy to push people to vaccinate themselves comes at a time when there is big concerns over the Omicron strain of coronavirus, known to be highly transmissible.