Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa has announced that any citizens who decline being vaccinated against the coronavirus will be listed in a new register which will be shared with other European nations.
According to CNN, the list will be completely anonymous and won't be made public to any other citizens or to any employers.
"It is not a document which will be made public and it will be done with the utmost respect for data protection," he told Spain's La Sexta TV channel, as per CNN.
"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," he explained. "We are going to try to solve doubts. Getting vaccinated saves lives, it is the way out of this pandemic."
As CNN reported, she explained that it's intended use is to "understand the causes behind declining the vaccination... doubt or rejection."
"The registry is anonymous," she added. "There's no chance of identifying anyone in the registry."
Conducted by the Centre for Sociological Studies (CIS), the official poll found that around one-third of the population said they'd take the vaccine immediately. However, 55.2% of the total 2,130 respondents said they'd sooner hold off on being vaccinated and see what effects it has on other people first.
