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According to the WHO, countries will be able to decide for themselves how they want to carry out the vaccination campaign.
However, the UN Health Agency has assured that making vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory would not be the right way. The agency has provided examples where mandatory vaccination has generated increased public resistance in the past.
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“I don’t think an obligation can be appropriate here, especially for these vaccines,” Kate O’Brien, head of the WHO Immunization Department, told an online news conference.
“A much better position would be to simply promote and simplify vaccination without such requirements,” he said. “I don’t think we can imagine any country forcing us to get vaccinated.”
According to K. O’Brien, vaccines are likely mandatory for some hospital staff or highly recommended to ensure the safety of staff and patients.
However, WHO experts have recognized that the key challenge will be persuading the public to get vaccinated as soon as vaccines are available.
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“The history of vaccines is good news. This is a potential victory for human endeavor over a microbial enemy, ”said Michael Ryan, WHO emergency manager. “We need to convince people, we have to persuade.”
Speaking about mandatory vaccinations, he said: “I think it would be better for all of us who work in the public health (sector) to avoid (this method) as a means of vaccinating people.”
According to him, “it is much better to present the data and benefits of (vaccination) to the people and allow the people to decide.”
“There are certain circumstances … where I think the only sensible thing to do would be to get vaccinated,” he added.
According to the WHO, 51 vaccines against COVID-19 have been developed worldwide and are in clinical trials. Thirteen of them have entered the final phase of large-scale clinical trials.
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In laboratories around the world, 163 more vaccines are being developed for human testing.
Vaccination against the coronavirus, developed by the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the German company BioNTech, began on Tuesday in the United Kingdom. Last week, Britain became the first country to allow the use of this vaccine for mass vaccination.
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