The anti-vaccine movement has carried out several protests on public roads in Costa Rica and on one occasion they tried to force their way into the Ministry of Health.
Costa Rican authorities reported this Saturday that vthey cradled against covid-19 a child who was admitted to a hospital of the city of Heredia, a medical center where last Thursday a group of people entered by force to try to prevent the procedure.
“This Friday, January 28, authorities from the Ministry of Health and the National Children’s Board (PANI) empowered the San Vicente de Paúl hospital, in Heredia, to proceed with the vaccination against covid-19 of the hospitalized minor whose parents refused”, indicated this Saturday the Costa Rican Social Security Fund in a statement.
The entity reported that after receiving the endorsement of the Ministry of Health and the PANI, the minor was vaccinated and he was then handed over to his parents. The second dose will be applied within 21 days.
In Costa Rica, a covid-19 anti-vaccine group forcibly entered a hospital to allegedly remove a six-year-old boy who was admitted to the medical center pic.twitter.com/Qyu8L6BAqt
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According to the authorities, the child was hospitalized due to a respiratory pathology, so given the risk factors and the current epidemiological context, the treating doctor indicated the placement of the covid-19 vaccine.
In Costa Rica, the Government decreed as the covid-19 vaccine is mandatory for minors, health personnel and teachers.
The doctors requested the intervention of the social work service and the PANI before the refusal of the parents to vaccinate the child.
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On Thursday, a group that rejects vaccination against covid-19 forcibly entered the hospital, apparently to prevent the child from being vaccinated, and security officers from the medical center were reportedly beaten in the brawl.
In the place six people were arrested surnamed Ramírez, Corella, Reyes and Brenes, and two men surnamed Villalobos and Ramírez.
The following morning, by order of a judge, Marco Morales Albertazzi, leader of the movement that opposes vaccination against covid-19, who participated in the disturbance and apparently spat on a policewoman, according to the Ministry of Security.
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Against Morales Albertazzi, suspected of the crimes of mutiny, aggravated resistance and threatening a public official, a criminal court ordered precautionary measures of three months of house arrest with electronic ankle monitoring on Friday night.
What’s more, he was prohibited from communicating with or addressing public officials or witnesses, and participate in any type of public disturbance or promote it through social networks.
The Public Ministry reported that it will appeal these measures in search of preventive detention.
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Five other people who were detained were ordered prohibited from approaching 200 meters from the Heredia hospital, from communicating with victims and witnesses, and from meeting or demonstrating in public spaces.
While the person detained with the surname Brenes was not ordered precautionary measures. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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