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Spain suspends regional law that made vaccination compulsory

2021-04-20T17:36:06.519Z


The Spanish Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended a law taken by authorities in the Galicia region which required its inhabitants to be vaccinated against Covid-19, judicial sources reported. Read also: Vaccines: will a third dose be necessary? This preventive suspension comes after an appeal filed by the government against a law in this region of northwestern Spain which provided for fines


The Spanish Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended a law taken by authorities in the Galicia region which required its inhabitants to be vaccinated against Covid-19, judicial sources reported.

Read also: Vaccines: will a third dose be necessary?

This preventive suspension comes after an appeal filed by the government against a law in this region of northwestern Spain which provided for fines of up to 3,000 euros in the event of an unjustified refusal to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. .

In Spain, vaccination against Covid-19 is not compulsory, as in most European countries, but Galicia was an exception with this obligation introduced at the end of February. According to judicial sources, the appeal was admitted on the form, leading to the suspension of the articles contested by the central executive, which saw a "

limitation of fundamental rights

" in certain points of the law. The judges now have five months to study this appeal on the merits and render a final decision, during which the preventive suspension will be maintained.

The government of socialist Pedro Sanchez plans to vaccinate 70% of the population by the end of August. Spain vaccinated nearly 7.2% (3.4 million) of its 47 million inhabitants with the two doses, and administered more than 9.4 million doses in total, according to figures from the ministry of Health.

Source: lefigaro

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