Spain will use registry to document citizens who refuse COVID-19 vaccines

• Published date: 29 December 2020
• Date: 29 December 2020
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Spain intends to use the registry at a local level but will also to share the document with other EU member states. The information will not be made available to the public.

"What will be done is a registry, which will be shared with our European partners... of those people who have been offered it and have simply rejected it," Illa said, according to AFP. "It is not a document which will be made public and it will be done with the utmost respect for data protection."

The number of Spaniards willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they become available rose to over 40% in the latest official poll published last week, from 37% in a previous survey a month ago.

While 28% of respondents in the survey by the Center for Sociological Studies (CIS) said they would not take the vaccine immediately, that was a sharp drop from 47% in a previous CIS poll published on Nov. 18 that asked the same question.

Following a new increase in infections over the past two weeks, another 16.2% of survey respondents said they would be willing to be vaccinated if the shot "has guarantees, if it is tested, if it is reliable."

The survey was carried out on Dec. 1-9 among 3,800 people.

"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," Illa said, according to the BBC.

"People who decide not to get vaccinated, which we think is a mistake, are within their rights," Illa...