The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris announced that the eventual vaccine against the coronavirus will be free and mandatory for risk groups.
In conversation with Infinite Radio, The head of the Minsal explained that “the vaccine will be free, anyway (..) I am not in favor of obligations in general, but there are risk groups such as health professionals, the elderly, children, the chronically ill “.
Paris added that “more or less for 5 million 800 thousand people the vaccine has to be compulsory and in the rest of the population as it is done with influenza.”
“The obligation also has to do with epidemiology, we are going to see how the virus evolves. We have already seen that it is very serious in older adults,” he said.
Finally, he said that “if the vaccine is safe in children, we are also going to vaccinate children obviously, since they suffer from a systemic inflammatory that is quite serious, which was not known at the beginning, also produced by the coronavirus.”
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