The government of Mexico already nor take pictures to older adults who come to be vaccinated against Covid 19, the Undersecretary of Health reported tonight Hugo López-Gatell.
When answering a question at the daily press conference about Covid from the National Palace, López Gatell said that it is essential that people are registered because it is necessary to follow up for the application of the second dose
However, he emphasized that it is not necessary to take photographs, and access to the vaccine should not be restricted to those who make the decision that their credential or person should not be photographed.
“Every person, according to the Personal Data Protection Law, has the inalienable right to decide that the photograph should not be taken, in order to facilitate things and have absolute clarity in this regard and in no way lend itself to misinterpretation As the president pointed out this morning, we are not going to continue taking those photographs, ”said the official.
And he added that no person can be denied access to the Covid-19 vaccine, even if they refused to have their photograph taken or their voter ID taken.
“Point and aside the need or not to take the photograph of the credential and the person, it is not necessary, it is an element that operatively began to be used for ease, but it is not essential that the person be photographed or A photo of the voting credential should be taken and it should not be restricted under any circumstances, I am emphatic, under no circumstances should access to the vaccine be restricted to a person who makes the free and sovereign decision not to have a photograph taken of their credential or his person, ”said López-Gatell.
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However, the undersecretary affirmed that it is essential to provide the CURP, name, address and telephone number.
EL UNIVERSAL documented on its front pages that when people were vaccinated, they took pictures and even that electoral complaints were coming.
Today, EL UNIVERSAL reported that the president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova, demanded that the federal government ask them for a photographic copy of their voter ID during the vaccination of older adults.
Córdova Vianello assured that the INE has already received complaints about this practice during immunization and the electoral body will carry out an investigation.
The Ministry of Health reported 1,75 new deaths from Covid-19, so in total there are already 177 thousand 61 deaths from this disease.
Similarly, the authorities reported that there are estimated 2 million 208 thousand 668 coronavirus infections, of which 56 thousand 545 cases could be active.
At a press conference at the National Palace, José Luis Alomía, general director of Epidemiology of the Ssa, reported that at the national level there is a hospital occupancy of 39% and in this area the trend is down.
The official added that so far there is no state in the Republic that has a saturation greater than 70% in its general hospital beds and with ventilators.
For his part, the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, said that so far they have been applied 1 million 58 thousand 139 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca.
The vaccination process is already being applied in 291 municipalities in the states of the Republic. In total, there are 708 vaccination points in these towns.
In total, there are 622,658 health workers who have received one vaccine, while another 99,666 health workers have received two doses.
17 thousand 457 vaccines were also applied to teachers in Campeche and 318 thousand 358 doses to older adults.
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