This country to create a register of people who refuse covid-19 vaccine
On Monday, Spain became the fourth European country to record more than 50,000 coronavirus deaths
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Macarena Munoz
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Spain will create a register of people who refuse to get a Covid-19 vaccine, part of European efforts to counter public resistance to the new shots
While the register will be shared with other European partners, it won’t be made public
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Spain will create a register of people who refuse to get a Covid-19 vaccine, part of European efforts to counter public resistance to the new shots.
By MACARENA MUNOZ, RAYMOND COLITT AND HELENE FOUQUET | Bloomberg | Published: December 29, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. European governments are planning to track the number of people getting COVID-19 vaccines to help chart a path out of the crisis. France will have a registry of people who get vaccinated, and Spain will track people who refuse to get inoculated against the disease, which has caused more than 400,000 deaths in Europe. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel s government is considering legislation to ensure unvaccinated people are treated fairly as the economy begins to open up. More than 21,000 people in the country have already received the shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
FILE PHOTO: Empty bottles of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are pictured in Bad Windsheim, Germany December 27, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
MADRID (Reuters) - Pfizer has postponed the delivery of a new batch of the coronavirus vaccine to Spain by one day to Tuesday due to a logistics hurdle, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Monday.
The company suffered an incident related to the control of temperature in the process of loading and sending out the vaccines, the minister said, adding the incident is now solved. They (vaccines) will be available tomorrow first thing in the morning in vaccination points, Illa said in an interview to Cadena SER radio station. Spain started vaccinating people on Sunday.
COVID-19 Vaccine: Pfizer Delays Vaccine Deliveries To 8 European Nations: Spain COVID-19 Vaccine: Pfizer Delays Vaccine Deliveries To 8 European Nations: Spain Covid-19 Vaccine: The Spanish branch of Pfizer informed Madrid of the delay in shipments to the eight nations due to a problem in the loading and shipment process at its plant in Belgium, the health ministry said.
The statement did not specify which European nations aside from Spain were affected.
Madrid, Spain:
Pfizer has postponed the delivery of new batches of its coronavirus vaccine to eight European nations including Spain, the Spanish health ministry said Monday, a day after the EU began its immunisation campaign.