From the BBC:
“Coronavirus:
Spain to keep register of those who refuse Covid vaccine”
Spain is to set
up a register of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and
share it with other European Union nations, the health minister has said. Salvador
Illa said the list would not be made accessible to the public or to employers. He
said the way to defeat the virus was "to vaccinate all of us - the more
the better". Spain has been one of the countries in Europe worst affected
by the virus. It is currently rolling out the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which was
approved for EU member states last week.
In an interview
with La Sexta television on Monday, Mr Illa emphasised that vaccination would
not be mandatory. "What will be done is a register, which will be shared
with our European partners... of those people who have been offered it and have
simply rejected it," he said. "It is not a document which will be
made public and it will be done with the utmost respect for data
protection." He added: "People who are offered a therapy that they
refuse for any reason, it will be noted in the register... that there is no
error in the system, not to have given this person the possibility of being
vaccinated." According to a recent poll, the number of Spanish citizens
who have said they will not take the vaccine has fallen to 28% from 47% in
November. In other comments on Monday, Mr Illa said people would be contacted
by regional authorities when it was their turn to be inoculated. "People
who decide not to get vaccinated, which we think is a mistake, are within their
rights," he told reporters. "We are going to try to solve doubts.
Getting vaccinated saves lives, it is the way out of this pandemic." The
number of people who have died from Covid-19 in Spain rose above the 50,000
mark on Monday. The country has registered more than 1.8 million infections
during the pandemic. Spain is under a
nationwide curfew, between 23:00 and 06:00, until early May. In many places,
people are only allowed out in that period to go to work, buy medicine, or to
care for elderly people or children. Regional leaders can modify curfew times
and can also close regional borders for travel.
^ It seems a
little creepy for a Government to have such a list and then to give the
information (the names of Spanish Citizens) to other Countries and Governments.
^
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