{"id":233318,"date":"2021-05-03T06:48:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T06:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=233318"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:27:14","slug":"polish-city-moves-to-make-covid-vaccines-compulsory-for-residents-and-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=233318","title":{"rendered":"Polish city moves to make Covid vaccines compulsory for residents and workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Agnieszka W\u0105do\u0142owska \u2013 Notes From Poland April 29, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4>The city council of Wa\u0142brzych has approved a resolution making COVID-19 vaccinations obligatory for its residents and people working in the city.<\/h4>\n<h4>The mayor of the city in southwestern Poland, Roman Sze\u0142emej, who is the driving force behind the regulation, said that he will appeal to the health ministry to make vaccination against COVID-19 compulsory at national level.<\/h4>\n<h4>Wa\u0142brzych\u2019s city council approved the mayor\u2019s draft resolution \u201cconcerning the introduction of obligatory COVID-19 vaccination for citizens of Wa\u0142brzych and other people working in the city\u201d by a large majority \u2013 with 22 councillors in support and just three against.<\/h4>\n<h4>The resolution is now in the hands of the provincial governor, who oversees district councils and will decide whether to uphold it.<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Radni Rady Miejskiej Wa\u0142brzycha stosunkiem g\u0142os\u00f3w 22 (za) do 3 (przeciw) przyj\u0119li Uchwa\u0142\u0119 w sprawie wprowadzenia obowi\u0105zku szczepie\u0144 przeciwko COVID-19 przez mieszka\u0144c\u00f3w Wa\u0142brzycha oraz inne osoby wykonuj\u0105ce prac\u0119 na terenie miasta. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wa%C5%82brzych?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wa\u0142brzych<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RomanSzelemej?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RomanSzelemej<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UCW2haYjAk\">pic.twitter.com\/UCW2haYjAk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Szewczak (@edoszewczak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edoszewczak\/status\/1387695366854914049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>\u201cSoon the lack of vaccine doses will not be the real problem, as we will have as many as we need, but then it may well turn out that we have the slowest vaccination rate in Europe,\u201d Sze\u0142emej told <em>Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<h4>Pointing out that many people in Poland are still unwilling to get vaccinated, Sze\u0142emej said that now is the right moment to consider making the vaccination obligatory for everyone throughout the country. He said that he would be appealing to the health ministry for it to be added to the list of infectious diseases for which vaccination is compulsory.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cUnfortunately, looking at the statistics, unless we expend some extraordinary effort mobilising people to vaccinate, by the end of the year the number of Poles\u2026 who will die because of this disease will reach 100,000,\u201d Sze\u0142emej said. \u201cVaccinations are the only way to defeat the pandemic.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>The mayor, who is also a cardiologist, noted that Wa\u0142brzych has been at the forefront of the Polish vaccine rollout since the beginning. In March it\u00a0 launched its own registration line for people wanting to register for a vaccination there.<\/h4>\n<h4>Wa\u0142brzych\u2019s city council is also working on regulations that would provide discounts for those inoculated in city\u2019s vaccination centres. It also opened one of Poland\u2019s first drive-through vaccination points, which officials hope will soon be operating around the clock.<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Drive-thru w Wa\u0142brzychu. Na pocz\u0105tek sze\u015b\u0107 godzin dziennie. Docelowo ca\u0142\u0105 dob\u0119 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ny8JGHhJH8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ny8JGHhJH8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X1mRzSuAjU\">pic.twitter.com\/X1mRzSuAjU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dziennik Wa\u0142brzych (@DziennikWalb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DziennikWalb\/status\/1384236611341197313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>\u201cWe believe that this form, which proved effective in the USA, in Italy and France, will also become popular in Poland,\u201d Micha\u0142 Dworczyk, the government minister responsible for the national vaccination rollout, said about the drive-through in Wa\u0142brzych.<\/h4>\n<h4>Some 100,000 people \u2013 almost the same number as its population \u2013 have already been vaccinated in the city \u2013 almost the same number as its population. As Sze\u0142emej pointed out, however, the registration system allows anyone to register at any vaccination point around Poland, making it hard to focus exclusively on inoculating local residents.<\/h4>\n<h4>Polling has revealed a high level of vaccination scepticism among Poles in recent months, although this has been falling as the rollout has continued. According to the most recent poll, quoted by Onet.pl and conducted by Inquiry, 57% of those who have not yet received the jab say they are either \u201cdefinitely\u201d or \u201crather\u201d willing to take it.<\/h4>\n<h4>Poland today recorded its highest daily total of coronavirus vaccinations to date, more than 330,000. The total number of shots administered now exceeds 11 million, and 8.3 million people have received at least one dose.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notesfrompoland.com\/2021\/04\/29\/polish-city-votes-to-make-covid-vaccines-compulsory-to-residents-and-workers\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wa\u0142brzych\u2019s city council has approved the mayor\u2019s proposal for \u201cobligatory COVID-19 vaccination\u201d for all residents and workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":233320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233319,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233318\/revisions\/233319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}