COVID-19 vaccine WASHINGTON Jan 4th A U.S. federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction denying the Department of Defense the right to punish Navy personnel who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the Washington Post, after the nonprofit First Liberty Institute filed a lawsuit on behalf of 35 Navy personnel and three reservists. November against US President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro and the Department of Defense over a mandatory vaccination order. The officers demanded that they be exempted from vaccinations for religious reasons without the threat of subsequent dismissal. According to District Judge Reed O'Connor, the pandemic does not give the government the right to violate the freedoms enjoyed by every American, and military personnel have the right to avoid vaccinations for religious reasons. «Loss of religious freedoms.» outweighs any future damage to the Navy … Even the most dire circumstances cannot justify the loss of constitutional rights, «the newspaper quoted the judge as saying. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the Department of Defense is aware of the injunction and is considering it. 
More than 50 cases have been filed in Latvia due to fictitious COVID-19 vaccination US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the immediate start of full vaccination of all US military personnel against COVID-19 on August 25. Military personnel are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after the second component of the biphasic COVID-19 vaccine was administered, or two weeks after a single dose of the single-phase vaccine was administered. In mid-October, the US Navy said that military personnel who do not receive a full coronavirus vaccine by November 28 will fired. For Navy reservists, the deadline for full vaccination was set on December 28. 
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