Covid-19 pandemic: Big Tech makes jabs mandatory, Twitter closes offices

Twitter started allowing employees back to its campuses in San Francisco and New York

Twitter is shutting its reopened offices in United States, while other Big Tech companies are making vaccination mandatory for on-campus employees, as the highly-infectious Delta Covid-19 variant drives a resurgence in cases.

Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook said on Wednesday all US employees must get vaccinated to step into offices. Google is also planning to expand its vaccination drive to other regions in the coming months.

Twitter, which on Wednesday also paused future office reopenings, had started allowing employees back to its campuses in San Francisco and New York at 50 per cent capacity about a fortnight ago after more than 16