Months ago, the Court of Appeals for Administrative and Civil Litigation of the Treasury also suspended the mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 in children from 0 to 12 years of age.
The Administrative Dispute Court accepted on March 15 a precautionary measure that suspends the mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 for people under 12 to 17 years of age.
“The request for a precautionary measure for the suspension of the application of the scope of executive decree No. 43364 of December 13 is accepted. December 2021, which amended the Regulations to the National Vaccination Law (executive decree no. 42889-s) that made the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for minors, specifically in terms of its scope for children from 12 to 17 years”, reads ruling No. 2023-120377.
The precautionary measure was presented by the lawyer Arcelio Hernández Mussio.
Months ago, the Court of Appeals for Administrative and Civil Litigation of the Treasury also suspended the mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 in children under 12 years of age, at the request of Hernández.
“Consider who judges that it actually consists of a threat latent against the risk to the health and life of minors, subjecting them to a mandatory application of a vaccination product that does not have the safety and efficacy of the vaccine”, the judges pointed out.
“In this case, it is pointed out that it does not have full and definitive approval for its use, nor sanitary registration in our country, and it is that, from the evidence brought up by the requesting party, although it is both for the main process and for For the request for the precautionary claim, it appears that the COVID-19 vaccine has an emergency use approval granted by the FDA, “they added.
At this time, 220,998 minors between 6 months and less than 5 years of age, 102,756 children from 5 to 11 years of age and 178,423 people over 12 years of age are still pending, according to the most up-to-date data from the Costa Rican Health Fund. Social Security (CCSS).
