Immunization is already mandatory for adults in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Vatican. In the case of Europeans, they still have to process bills.
Ecuador declared vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory this Thursday, at a time when the increase in infections in the country continues, the Ministry of Public Health reported; it becomes the first state in Latin America to adopt this decision on a generalized basis. In Europe, at least three are planning to make inoculation mandatory from early 2022.
“In Ecuador, vaccination against COVID-19 is mandatory. This decision was made due to the current epidemiological status, that is, the increase in infected and the circulation of new variants of ‘concern’, such as omicron ”, indicates the official statement.
In addition, he adds, “it is due to the international trend that shows the rapidity of contagion and the pressure on health services that have high demand for hospitalization.”
Ecuador reported 819 new positive cases on the last day and added a total of 539,037 infections of the disease during the pandemic. The deceased rose to 33,634, among the 23,815 confirmed with the disease and the 9,819 probable.
And regarding vaccination, according to official information, until December 21, 12.4 million people had the complete schedule (two doses) of vaccines, which represents 77.2% of the 16 million inhabitants that make up the target population to be vaccinated (from 5 years old).
As a legal basis for the decision, the Ecuadorian Government has appealed to an article of the Organic Health Law that “declares the mandatory nature of immunizations against certain diseases, under the terms and conditions that the national and local epidemiological reality requires.”
And it is the responsibility of the Executive to “define the standards and the basic national immunization scheme” and “provide the population with the necessary elements to comply with it at no cost.”
The authorities assure that there are vaccines at this time for the entire population.
It also appeals to article 83.7 of the Constitution, which imposes as “the duty of Ecuadorians to promote the common good and put the general interest before the particular interest.”
Ecuador claims to have supported “in several European countries” such as Germany, Austria and Greece, which “will implement this measure” at the beginning of 2022.
In the case of Germany, where more than 10 million people are not vaccinated, a bill will be presented in the Bundestag at the end of the year, and it is expected that the mandatory vaccination will be applied in February-March 2022, it collects France24.
Austria plans to pass a bill that makes vaccination mandatory as of February 1, 2022 and that provides fines of up to 7,200 euros for people who refuse to be immunized.
Greece announced at the end of November that vaccination will be mandatory for those over 60 years from January 16, under penalty of a fine of 100 euros per month until they are immunized.
In addition to these three countries, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, supported the debate on mandatory vaccination earlier this month.
However, in addition to Ecuador and the European countries where it would enter into force in 2022, since the middle of this year vaccination was already mandatory for adults in Tayikistan, Turkmenistan and the Vatican, where there are penalties including termination for employees who refuse to receive the vaccine.
In countries like United States, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Russia, Greece, Kazakhstan and the Fiji archipelago Vaccination has already been mandatory for all workers in the health sector and in some cases for employees of the public sector and also of the private sector. The newspaper.
In United States, The city of San Francisco announced sanctions for employees who fail to get vaccinated, and in Texas, more than 150 workers at one of the state’s largest hospitals were fired months ago after refusing to get vaccinated. (I)
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