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Across the continent, reaching vulnerable populations on the margins of society is a challenge. In Brussels, the government hopes cellular awareness can help.
By Monika Pronczuk
BRUSSELS – For others living on the margins of society, from the homeless to undocumented workers, the coronavirus has long posed a greater risk, but here in the European Union’s de facto capital, many are terrified of getting vaccinated.
“People said I would be paralyzed,” said Rouguiatou Koita, a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea and mother of 4, adding 8-month-old twins. “I’m very afraid,” he added. I didn’t know what would happen to my children. “
But then a fitness team and social staff visited the homeless shelter in Brussels where they live, and a friend got the vaccine and it went well. Koita convinced, and on June 21 she was also emphazed.
As the vaccination crusade in the European Union has accelerated, with more than a portion of the adult population now fully vaccinated, governments are stepping up their efforts to succeed in marginalized populations, adding others like Ms. Koita. redouble their efforts to combat mis-information about vaccines.
Widespread vaccination, according to epidemiologists, is the only way out of the pandemic, but getting everyone out, adding up those living on the margins of society at large, is not easy. In the European Union, there are approximately 4. 8 million people without papers. , or about 1% of the population, and tend to occupy jobs with a higher risk of exposure, such as in the home care and hospitality sectors.
The European Union, like the United States and other rich countries, is now in a prime position not to fight for supplies, but the bloc country has developed its own plan and provisions vary significantly in terms of vaccine accessibility.
In the Netherlands, medical groups administer vaccines directly at homeless shelters, and anyone can book a vaccine by e-phone without a national registration number. Portugal has created an online platform dedicated to undocumented immigrants, although other people who register for a photo will have to provide address, date of birth, phone number and nationality. In France, since the end of May, no document is required to subscribe to a vaccine.
In Belgium, navigating between local, regional and federal administrations was a challenge even before the global fitness crisis.
The Belgian federal fitness authority’s initial plan, which will be implemented starting in December, stipulated that the vaccines would be based on each resident’s home coping and professional prestige, according to a review in the medical journal The Lancet. , dreaming other people with abnormal jobs, transitional housing or undocumented housing is a problem.
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