An Australian infectious diseases physician has backed comments made by former New South Wales Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet that Covid-19 vaccine mandates were a ‘mistake’.

Perrottet told parliament in his final speech yesterday that people’s personal choices about getting vaccinated for Covid-19 “shouldn’t have cost them their jobs”.

“I don’t think vaccine mandates were a good idea because at the end of the day the vaccines were less effective on transmissions than originally thought,” Infectious diseases physician Peter Collignon told 6PR Mornings host Gary Adshead.

Click PLAY to hear what Professor Collignon had to say.

Image: iStock.