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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, said this Saturday that vaccination against Covid-19 in Spain will

begin in January next year and that it will not be mandatory.

In interviews on

RAC1

and

Catalunya Ràdio

, Illa said this Saturday that she does not think it is "convenient" to make vaccines against the coronavirus mandatory in Spain, indeed, she has defended that, according to

"experts", "It could even backfire."

He pointed out, in this sense, that there is "

a very high awareness" among citizens regarding the benefits of getting vaccinated

, since Spain "is a country with a very good tradition of vaccination."

Thus, although "legally" the Government could make it mandatory to be vaccinated, it has been shown that even by not doing so

"there will be a very high level of response" among Spaniards.

13,000 vaccination points

Something that will be tried to "reinforce" from the Executive explaining

"the truth and the benefits it entails"

for the entire population to be vaccinated against the virus, he has indicated.

The minister explained that there are 13,000 vaccination points and that

10 million people

are usually vaccinated

in a period of two months

, so that "with the usual network" of vaccination points it will be possible to "function perfectly with a fast and efficient pace , and with guarantees ".

Illa has estimated that

"sometime in January"

the vaccination process will begin, but has avoided putting figures and times on the government's plans.

The minister trusts that by the middle of the year some 30 million citizens will have been vaccinated,

"70% of the population in round numbers"

, which would allow a good part of the citizenship to be immunized.

This, in turn, would allow

the prevention measures against the coronavirus

to be relaxed

"significantly"

.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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