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NGOs are calling on European Union countries to ramp up efforts to vaccinate the Roma community, seen as particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Official vaccination guidelines from Brussels have suggested giving priority access to groups with chronic diseases, comorbidities, frailty and disabilities. It also suggested that vulnerable socio-economic group could be categorised as possible priority groups . But Slovakia is currently the only one of the EU s 27 countries to explicitly recognise its 500,000-strong Roma community as an at-risk group in its vaccination campaign despite them being more likely than the general population to suffer from cardiovascular diseases, develop severe disabilities, respiratory and musculoskeletal system diseases, diabetes, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia and obesity-related diseases.

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