Spain’s health ministry has announced it will set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations.
Salvador Illa, the Health Minister, said the list would not be made accessible to the public or to employers.
In an interview with La Sexta television on Monday, Mr Illa emphasised that vaccination would not be mandatory.
He said “What will be done is a registry, which will be shared with our European partners… of those people who have been offered it and have simply rejected it, It is not a document which will be made public and it will be done with the utmost respect for data protection. People who are offered a therapy that they refuse for any reason, it will be noted in the register, that there is no error in the system, not to have given this person the possibility of being vaccinated. People who decide not to get vaccinated, which we think is a mistake, are within their rights. We are going to try to solve your doubts. Getting vaccinated saves lives, it is the way out of this pandemic”